Tyler and His First Deer

Here is Tyler's first deer. We sent him out around 3pm and told him he couldn't eat dinner if he did not bring home a deer. A half hour later he came back with this.

The following week he went on to get two more.

Needless to say, our freezer is full. (If you like that sort of meat.)

Mixed Precipitation!

Here the boys are playing outside today. They don't seem to mind the cold.





I saw a break in the clouds today and a little sun. I ran out with the camera to get a picture as the sun was glistening off the ice in the trees. I was too late, but decided to take the picture anyway.




My mother in law, who lives 4 miles away in town, and I talk back and forth about road and weather conditions there and here. So these picture are for her, who kept telling me nothing was happening yesterday when we had all sorts of precipitation going on all day.

There is ice under the snow. See the tire spin marks at the bottom of the driveway.

It does take skill to get up the driveway when it is like this. This usually only happens about once or twice a year - where it is too difficult to get up the driveway. Hopefully this is not a picture of things to come.

We put water out to the barn about a month ago. Because it is freshly dug up, there is lots of space in the soil. The rain water is just pouring into the basement where the pipe goes into the house. Following the path of the pipe. (We are sump-pumping it out.)

The men had to dig a ditch to re-route the water for the time being.

Outside My Window Today!

This is what it looks like outside my window today. I was told in town there was next to no snow. We don't have that much snow, but we have the heavy wet type that packs down. The boys are making snowmen and we had to shovel the driveway, so there is enough snow for that. This is the second or third time this fall we had snow on the "higher elevations" when the towns had none.

October Contrasts: In Like a Lamb - Out Like a Lion!

I interrupt our Florida vacation to share some October pictures. They say we have two seasons here - Summer and Winter. Well that is proving to be true. We have had some "Indian Summer" days (or is that "Native American" Summer now?) but we got our first dose of winter this week.

Here are some pictures taken two weeks ago on our land:

Here are pictures taken this week just after the snow started falling. We did wind up with about 4 inches which isn't that bad, but the valleys (villages) only got rain. So if you drove down our road a mile you no longer saw any snow.

Need I say more?

Day 4:Discovery Cove (5)

Discovery Cove's main attraction is swimming with dolphins. You spend 30 minutes with a trainer and a dolphin and learn about dolphins. You get to pet the dolphin, feed them, give him a kiss, and swim with him. And yes he was a boy - named Lester. He is around 40 years old. Dolphins live long in captivity.

The whole place was excellent!! It is an all inclusive resort atmosphere. You get excellent meals, all the drinks you want, towels, snacks and more. We all had so much fun here. We even got the video of us with the dolphins - if you want to see it - come on over and we will show you it!!

Day 4:Discovery Cove (4)

Here we are (don't we look wonderful!) with all gear learning to snorkel. You can not swim, kick or splash in the stingray pool, just snorkel. They do come right up to you when you are in the water and do kind of a wave at you - see the photo just below. All Aaron could think of was the crocodile hunter and what happened to him. We talked with the trainers in the water and they trim the barb so they can't sting. I honestly didn't think they would let us swim with something dangerous.

Day 4:Discovery Cove (3)

Discovery Cove has a beautiful and fun aviary. The birds are very friendly and will land on you whether or not you have food. The first time through we swam through the aviary (you can walk in or swim in.) I didn't care for it because they had a waterfall you have swim under and then a strong mist of water - all to discourage the birds from leaving - when you entered and left the aviary.

Day 4:Discovery Cove (2)

OK, we didn't take these. These photos are the stock photos that came on our picture cd with the pictures of us. But you can see how beautiful it was!!