Last Roses of the Season

I had a few blooms on my roses still & our weather has been unpredictable lately, so I cut them & hoped they would open in the house.

In the mid 50's yesterday & supposed to be there again today, but I'm sure the cold will come blasting in soon enough!

After the rain

It rained hard during the night, but had let up by dawn. So many droplets of water clinging to all the vines..........

Not really into the spirit yet but.......

I worked yesterday & we had gotten a bunch of new Christmas decorations in that are interesting. The Patience Brewster ornaments are a new line for us to carry. Very whimsical reindeer and small ornaments.A lot of hand painted wine glasses...........

Make for a fun decoration on a tree!

These reindeers are really cute!

A sheep ornament in the same line......there are also pigs and squirrels and other animals....

And a great apron--with flip-flops! i want to buy it for myself--I do wear aprons when v

baking--but I already have a few!

A Bucolic Scene....

I had to drive a few towns away to pick up dog food, so I took along my camera hoping to find something to photograph. I've been under the weather for a few days & haven't felt like going out & looking around. So I was passing a farm in Thomaston--I've driven by it many times & this is the 1st time I've ever seen the cows outside! Think this one is trying to scratch an itch or flick off a fly? Sorry you can't see it, but she is sticking out her tongue.... It's a bright sunny day & they seem to be enjoying being outside--as I was!

This one was nice enough to look up for me!

I also got to visit with a few of my Isla friends after I got the dog food--one has a restaurant in the same town, another works there and a 3rd has a business next door--I should have emailed Sandia, but I knew she just got back from Isla & probably is busy catching up...next time!

2 Months from today.....

Finally I can say" 2 months from today" we will be back on Isla! No fishing tournament, but I know Alan will be fishing at some point. One of the videos I have been watching for months.......

Tuck--the scavenger!

We've had Tuck since he was 5 weeks old--he is now 15! Got him along with his brother, Zach ( Zach passed away about 6 years ago from cancer). So Tuck in his old age has decided to learn some new tricks! Earlier this week I cooked a turkey--they were on sale so I said why not? I ate one of the legs for dinner & threw the bones into the garbage under the sink. I heard a noise a while later & went out there to investigate--Tuck had opened the cupboard, gotten into the garbage can ( the leg had to have been down about 6 inches, gotten it out without tipping over the can and was happily munching on the turkey! Never has done anything like this before....

As you can see, he loves his creature comforts........loves to be warm--he even curls up behind the woodstove to sleep!

It's a cold and rainy day here--the rain is trying very hard to be snow--so it's sleeting I guess! I finally set up the external disc drive for my netbook so I could put a printer on it, too. Up til now if there was something I opened on the netbook & wanted to print, I was putting it onto a jump drive & transferring it to another computer. Went looking through some photos & decided to play with some in Picnik--here's one result.......