October 27, 2010

I am still having some issues trying to get back in the seasonal swing at home.  New house, a yard in need of more work than I am giving it, and the fact that the year is about over has just overwhelmed me.  Little by little, I am trying to find a new routine that works for me and covers all areas and still have some time for myself.  Ha Ha!

Did find some time to go to the "Big" Burke County Fair.  A fair about 1 acre of land is NOT a fair.  Was all rides and games.  What few exhibits they had were shoddy.  If one cannot produce quality crafts, take them to the Burke Co. fair and you WILL get a ribbon.  There are more ribbons than exhibits.  It was actually very sad!  Cobii and Carrie had fun.  Cobii rode all the kiddie rides of course, and she rode all the big rides with Carrie that she was tall enough to get on. 

My mother-in-law is due back to the sunny south tomorrow sometime.  I miss her while she is gone.  My kids and I got her place ready - food in the fridge, yard mowed, house vacuumed, etc.  I am sure she is anxious to see my new house, since she left before it was delivered.

This is my confederate rose.  White today and pink tomorrow!  Somehow they suvived being in a bucket all summer.  When they are done for the season, I will plant where they belong - not sure yet where that will be, but I WILL find a place.  Mary has had one in their front yard for a few years now, and it gets very many shoots and so tall, way over her and Rick's heads!

Guess that shall be the end of my blog for today. 

Trying to Catch up to Myself

Fall has gotten here almost overnight.  Seems it was just a month or so ago that Spring arrived.  I have been working at trying to put my yard back together.  There are some things growing in my yard that I never had before, and some things I have kept an eye out for that either never came back or may appear next Spring.  Since there was a lot of 'dirt moving", there are plants (mostly day lillies) coming up in the strangest places.  This weekend, I got a rose bush out of a bucket and got it in the ground where it belogs.  I burned a pile of already burned wood leftover from burned house.  Actually, it was practically all the wood that did not burn from the entire place.  So that is another area of the yard cleaned!

A few pretty things blossoming now in the yard are confederate rose, columbines, oxalis and petunias.

This weekend also included getting my mother-in-law's yard and house ready for her to return for the winder.  She leaves the 26th of this month to return from her yearly visit to home in upstate NY.  Did not capture pictures of her before and after yard.  Carrie did find the remains of a snake in the bathroom.  Hopefully that takes care of the yearly snake visit in her house.  There are many stories of snakes in her house.  Enough of that.

Friday evening Carrie, Cobii and I decorated my fireplace for the season.  All decorations are Carrie's except the lights were given to me, the pirate pumpkin in front, Cobii decorated from a kit, and the sitting down scarecrow was my mother's, had been at Patches's house, and has now made it to my house again.

This is "Oma, may I please have a banana".  She was definitely pretty sure Oma was going to say yes!

The princess and the fur ball.