Monday Morning
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 7:30 amA Cheery Good Morning everybody,
Hope you all slept good last night and are bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning. Not much in the breakfast nook today. Have eggs and sausage, can fight over the last 4 pieces of bacon if you want. Got some strawberries (frozen) and some canned peaches, that's about it. Do have eggs, green peppers and sliced cheese here though, so anybody who wants to, can make a oemlet.
A cloudy morning here at the 45th. Supposed to be a decen day, with rain showers moving in by tonight. So hopefully ifall goes well, I will get my windows washed and screens put away for the winter, my lawn tractor and snow blowers out and washed, oil and spark plugs changed, grease job on the blower where needed and lawn tractor stored away for winter too. It's done it's last bit of work for this year. Won't be much left to do around here other than burlap shrubs later donw the line and probably go over yard one more time with leaf blower, or at least part of yard as leaves are off almost all the trees except those on the other side of my drive.
Had a bit of excitement around here this past week. There's a stretch of woods behind me that run about a mile to maybe a mile and a quarter from south to north and about a quarter of a mile, maybe a bit more wide. It's all state land with a little parcel of landlocked private property in one spot and about 20 acres of private property with a house on it out behind me. Well, Saturday afternoon, some guy bent on suicide was out there, loaded with guns and the police were searching for him on foot with K-9 dogs. Involved police from two counties and a DNR Conservation Officer. They had blocked off the main road and were not letting any traffic by. One fire truck was parked at the end of my road and that's how i found out about it, when I went to take my dogs out for a walk. They did find him however and arrested him. Apparently a call had come in from one of the houses along the highway here that there was a sucidial man out there, so don't know how it all started. News will cme out in local paper I am sure. It's been all over the TV. And the authorities never notified anybody around here about it either. Perhaps he was far enough up the road to not be a threat to anybody and maybe they didn't want to attract any attenntion to it and wind up with people out and about to see what was going on. But some are saying that they could have at least alerted us to the situation as a safety precaution. I walk my dogs back in those woods on ocassion. Maybe that will be off my list after this. Friend of mine saw him as he was walking down the shoulder of the road on her way home from work. Said he had a backpack and was carrying a high powered rifle. That was before everything else started.
Well, back to work for Ava day. Carol is getting her final list pared down before she and the Driver hit the road. Dawn, sorry that your family is going through so much with your one DD. But please, get out and enjoy life and the time with your mom, your other DD and your GD. Sometimes things just have to sort themselves out. Soos will be hitting the road next weekend too, so going ot be people on the road out there. Drive safe all of you and happy trails as Soos says.
I'm contemplating heading back Up North again, this time for maybe a month. But have some logistics to work out first. Always those "life" things that get in the way. Mail, banking, dentist and doctor appts (physical time), vet appt.s for Tessa, whom by the way is is improving very well, etc. to figure out yet. Then maybe can get up there. Had though about maybe the month of December perhaps. Want to see if I really miss this place down here and they only way I will know, is to leave it for awhile. I didn't want to come back when I was up three weeks ago and all I want to do is go back, soooo.......
Got to get moving here, chiropractor appt. this morning and must stop at store, neeed some auto washer fluidd to do my windows with and also need some oil for the blower. Need to pull the plugs before I know which ones I need there, but dealer is only a few minutes up road, so no big deal on that.
So you all have a nice day out there. Enjoy the sunshine and warm weather if you have any. Looks like winter is starting to move in across the Northwest and Rockies.
Hope you all slept good last night and are bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning. Not much in the breakfast nook today. Have eggs and sausage, can fight over the last 4 pieces of bacon if you want. Got some strawberries (frozen) and some canned peaches, that's about it. Do have eggs, green peppers and sliced cheese here though, so anybody who wants to, can make a oemlet.
A cloudy morning here at the 45th. Supposed to be a decen day, with rain showers moving in by tonight. So hopefully ifall goes well, I will get my windows washed and screens put away for the winter, my lawn tractor and snow blowers out and washed, oil and spark plugs changed, grease job on the blower where needed and lawn tractor stored away for winter too. It's done it's last bit of work for this year. Won't be much left to do around here other than burlap shrubs later donw the line and probably go over yard one more time with leaf blower, or at least part of yard as leaves are off almost all the trees except those on the other side of my drive.
Had a bit of excitement around here this past week. There's a stretch of woods behind me that run about a mile to maybe a mile and a quarter from south to north and about a quarter of a mile, maybe a bit more wide. It's all state land with a little parcel of landlocked private property in one spot and about 20 acres of private property with a house on it out behind me. Well, Saturday afternoon, some guy bent on suicide was out there, loaded with guns and the police were searching for him on foot with K-9 dogs. Involved police from two counties and a DNR Conservation Officer. They had blocked off the main road and were not letting any traffic by. One fire truck was parked at the end of my road and that's how i found out about it, when I went to take my dogs out for a walk. They did find him however and arrested him. Apparently a call had come in from one of the houses along the highway here that there was a sucidial man out there, so don't know how it all started. News will cme out in local paper I am sure. It's been all over the TV. And the authorities never notified anybody around here about it either. Perhaps he was far enough up the road to not be a threat to anybody and maybe they didn't want to attract any attenntion to it and wind up with people out and about to see what was going on. But some are saying that they could have at least alerted us to the situation as a safety precaution. I walk my dogs back in those woods on ocassion. Maybe that will be off my list after this. Friend of mine saw him as he was walking down the shoulder of the road on her way home from work. Said he had a backpack and was carrying a high powered rifle. That was before everything else started.
Well, back to work for Ava day. Carol is getting her final list pared down before she and the Driver hit the road. Dawn, sorry that your family is going through so much with your one DD. But please, get out and enjoy life and the time with your mom, your other DD and your GD. Sometimes things just have to sort themselves out. Soos will be hitting the road next weekend too, so going ot be people on the road out there. Drive safe all of you and happy trails as Soos says.
I'm contemplating heading back Up North again, this time for maybe a month. But have some logistics to work out first. Always those "life" things that get in the way. Mail, banking, dentist and doctor appts (physical time), vet appt.s for Tessa, whom by the way is is improving very well, etc. to figure out yet. Then maybe can get up there. Had though about maybe the month of December perhaps. Want to see if I really miss this place down here and they only way I will know, is to leave it for awhile. I didn't want to come back when I was up three weeks ago and all I want to do is go back, soooo.......
Got to get moving here, chiropractor appt. this morning and must stop at store, neeed some auto washer fluidd to do my windows with and also need some oil for the blower. Need to pull the plugs before I know which ones I need there, but dealer is only a few minutes up road, so no big deal on that.
So you all have a nice day out there. Enjoy the sunshine and warm weather if you have any. Looks like winter is starting to move in across the Northwest and Rockies.
Maggie, I'll see you at the air show!! 
It did not scar or move. But Tyler was barking a storm and running back and forth. He wanted that kitty so bad!! I had to sequester Tyler in a room up stairs with no windows ( I was there with him). Then I heard the dogs next door barking, I felt pretty sure the skunk had moved on. But I could not turn Tyler loose in the yard till around 9am hoping skinky had left the area. DH says there's been lots of skunks in this area, but it is the first oneI have seen. Smell? Yes. Seen? No!! 
