An idea that its time may have come

This is a mail box on the RT 711.  Don’t know if this would help our government accomplish anything, but sure would get their attention.

Overcast most of the day till evening and then the sun came out.  It is currently 75 and humid.  Started to get Escape To ready for her beach trip.  We are trying a leaf mesh cover over our pool cover, hoping this makes opening pool a lot easer next spring,  as we should not have to remove a pool cover filled with wet leaves.

Time marches on

Today has been a warm humid and mostly overcast.  It was Junior Day for deer hunting here in Virginia and Michael got his first deer.  It seems appropriate timing as this morning Edna was boxing up all the children’s books and puzzles to donate to BSH School, as all grandchildren have outgrown them.

Elizabeth is home from the hospital and sore, but in good spirits.  Spent some time cutting and splitting fire wood, and then filling the hoop on the front porch.  Hope we don’t have to use for another month or more.  Needed to move a dead tree that was covered in poison ivy, which has fallen across the trail we use to take horses to our back pasture.  Covered myself in Ivy block, put on long sleeves and gloves and off to attach a rope to the tree and pulled it out of the way.  Removal from the area will wait for another day. 

Elizabeth is back in hospital

It’s a humid day, with off and on showers.  High is to be in low 80’s, with heavy rain forecast for tomorrow.  The “fun show” has been postponed as Elizabeth went to the hospital last night and was operated on this morning.  She will probably be in hospital until Saturday.  The same problem as happened on her vacation in July.  

We are off to see her after Edna picks up Will from school.  She wants’ us to bring her some fries from Burger King and doctor said that is fine as she has not eaten since Yesterday morning.

Rain for the next few days

It looks like next 4 days will be off and on rain, but the weekend should be nice for the “fun horse” show.  The recent weather has resulted in a bloom of mushrooms all over the place.  Some in the back pasture were very interesting and I spent time photographing them.  

Last spring I bought 6 chicks to replace the hens that the raccoon got and when I went for feed to Southern States they gave you 6 chicks with a bag of chick started, so I ended up with 12 chicks.   They are now all laying and we are getting 10 to 11 eggs a day.  Elizabeth is selling them for $1.50 a dozen and is saving for a new riding hat.  

In addition I bought 2 bantam chicks at a chicken swap.  I was taken, they developed into two fighting cocks and they now live at Reeder’s.  Reeder also has a large blue heron who has decided his fish ponds are a great place to dine. His fish and frog population are way down and the heron is there ever morning and evening for its meal.

Rain and drizzle in the low 60's

Last two days have been cold with rain.  Today is the type of day all you want to do is take a nap, high in low 60’s and low in the mid 50’s with rain and drizzle.  Even these three deer think so.  These deer were laying down in our side yard all morning.  Glad we got the pool closed last Thursday, and that is our official end to summer.  

Little less than a week till Jill’s and Edna’s “fun horse” show and most of the “to do” list is complete.  In two weeks we leave for the beach and a week of relaxation and photography.  

A day of fall type activity

Tuesday was a day of smoking fish and drying herbs from the garden for winter enjoyment.  It is forecasted to be fall like weather end of week, high 60’s and low 50’s.  Everybody is getting ready for the fun show in a couple of weeks.  From our sun porch I watched a bee go from flower to flower in our rose of sharon bush, so spent some time photographing the bee.  CCR meeting tonight and I submitted the picture for evaluation.

Morning Visitors

Every morning as we drink our coffee on the sun porch, deer are within 20 feet eating the persimmons that have fallen off the trees during the night.  One is always a large 6 point buck, but I have had no success in getting a picture of him.  This morning when I slipped out to take his picture, he run off again, but the doe and fawn just looked at me and went back to eating the fruit.  Temperatures in the mid 80’s during the day and high 60’s at night.

James River level at home

Will and I went to the low lands to look at the James; a tree had come down across the trail, so we got off the tractor and walked the remaining distance.  Saw lot of deer and turkey tracks and more down trees in the woods.  The river was high, but still about 10 feet below its banks.  There were no signs that it had ever been out of it banks, so flooding that was predicted did not happen at our location.  When we returned to the house, we filled the bird and humming bird feeders.  We are starting to see some birds that are migrating through Virginia.

Lots of Rain

Storms have passed, but we are left with lots of flooding.  Plan to get to the low grounds behind our house today and see how high the James River level is.  After the storm Toby and Reeder gathered wood from Irene storm damage that had been cut up and piled for removal.  They spent an afternoon and we now have 3 truck loads for firewood for the winter.  Just have to split and stack.

There is a two day horse show at Deep Run this weekend, and I will be working on our ring, for the “fun show” we are having for our boarders and Jill’s clients the end of September.  Less than month before we get away for a week of beach fix in SC.