tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57583132761848342272024-03-13T10:46:28.550-07:00The PropertyStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939553290184347741noreply@blogger.comBlogger222125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758313276184834227.post-44898211079396082892013-12-12T19:51:00.002-08:002013-12-12T19:51:32.232-08:00Countdown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I really love a good countdown activity. I've made them for family. I do one myself. I look for new twists each year. I even started a tradition of sending one to my grandsons for the month of December so they can think of me every day as they countdown. I had this crate at a sale recently when all of a sudden this idea came to me. I pulled the crate off and saved it for me to use. It works perfectly for the twelve days of Christmas. I ordered the craft boxes on Amazon. They are 3x3 and fit perfectly. I got it ready and delivered it today so it could be started tomorrow. Jeremy will have fun seeing what's inside the box every morning.</div>
Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939553290184347741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758313276184834227.post-24142071080168198452013-12-03T00:13:00.000-08:002013-12-03T00:13:08.595-08:00"Moose on the Loose"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This December I wanted to do something fun to celebrate each day. There has been a lot of interest in</div>
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Elf on the Shelf which really took off in popularity last year. I wanted to do a twist on it for Gareld. I thought about Elk on the shelf and went to D&B to find and elk. They didn't have one but they did have this moose. From there Moose on the Loose was born. Here is Morning Moose from day 2. Gareld is playing along and even gave him a name today. Meet Morris.</div>
Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939553290184347741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758313276184834227.post-20404912465784583252013-10-13T17:56:00.001-07:002013-10-13T17:56:09.023-07:00Testing 1,2,3.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I haven't looked at my blog for months! I had a lot to blog about this summer, too. Last time few times I tried to blog I couldn't get pictures to upload. This is a test. I just may have to get back into blogging. I had several blogs I followed and I haven't checked in on them either. Wyatt and Grayson are having a blast playing in the hay during their photo shoot last week. I can't wait to see them in a couple weeks.<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939553290184347741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758313276184834227.post-6649022340519180402013-05-04T15:46:00.002-07:002013-05-04T15:48:02.610-07:00Pumpkins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's time to start thinking about the big summerlong growing project again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In order to have a pumpkin patch for our Shabulous show in October we need to get these beauties started. Last year for the first try at the patch we had a cold spring and we weren't sure when to plant. Then the first week of June we had two graduations and a trip to Disneyland. I don't think they were in the ground until mid-June. Not enough time for them to all turn orange at the end. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last fall I saw this idea on pinterest to use paper rolls as "peat" pots. I have been saving them for months. I lined them all in a tray.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next I filled them with seed starting soil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are the seeds I saved from last years pumpkins. They sprouted in my test run so I used them here. I also planted mini pumpkins and gourds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are watered and out in the sun. Grow baby grow.</span><br />
<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939553290184347741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758313276184834227.post-68520045645828670702013-04-22T20:15:00.001-07:002013-04-22T20:18:07.494-07:00Caught on Camera<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a pretty shot of the house and shop from the trail camera across the field. Gareld decided to take them down today. He thought the batteries were probably dead in both cameras but this one had a lot of life left in it.<br />
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This is the young bull that hung around our place by himself. <br />
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Four-wheeling.<br />
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We have about 200 photos of our neighbor on his tractors preparing the ground and planting seeds. Round and round he goes. <br />
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The sky sure was blue today.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939553290184347741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758313276184834227.post-2252041240716465982013-04-04T21:53:00.002-07:002013-04-04T21:53:26.697-07:00Demolition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's coming down. The ugly trailer is being torn down and sent to B&K for recycling.</div>
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Almost everything can be recycled. If it can't be it will be burned.</div>
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It served a good purpose as a storage unit but now it is time to go. It had become a giant beehive. Hopefully they move on and don't just invade my shabby shack.</div>
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We have a good crew doing the work.</div>
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Last summer we made our first attempt at growing a pumpkin patch. It was a learning experience. We need to get them in the ground earlier for one thing. No trips to Disneyland to postpone the planting. My goal is to get them in the ground at the end of May. Once they started growing we had plenty in numbers. They all didn't have time to turn completely orange though. </div>
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I saved the seeds out of several pumpkins last fall. I removed them and let them dry then put them away. I haven't done this before so I don't know if there is anything special you have to do to get them to grow. I decided to plant some now and see what happens so I don't find out later that a whole field of pumpkin seeds is not going to sprout. The toilet paper tube in the center is an idea I saw on pinterest to create your own planting pots. I will let you know how it works.</div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939553290184347741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758313276184834227.post-41323370291465102372013-02-14T21:10:00.000-08:002013-02-14T21:10:15.692-08:00Little Boy Blue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wyatt during his first winter. This isn't very good edited but I wanted to close in on his face to see how he looks next to Grayson's photo in the same hat this winter. It is one of my favorite pictures of him.</div>
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Now look at this cutie pa tootie! Love the big blue eyes and the bubbles are priceless.</div>
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We've been enjoying the elk migration. Spotting them on the hill is the highlight of each morning that we are here long enough to see daylight. Gareld has one of his camera's down by the old house where we caught this bull. It's fun to collect the cards and see what we caught on film. By the looks of the date on this one it's time to go get them again. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's winter here on the property. It's also been very cold. Last Saturday I ventured out for a few minutes to get some pictures for the blog and then I couldn't upload them. I was reading another blog today and she mentioned her google account had been suspended, she couldn't upload photos, and she had to start a brand new blog. I was about ready to do the same thing until I saw today I could upload again. I don't know what was going on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">This pile of pumpkins brings back memories of long summer days and two a-day watering sessions. I saved a lot of the seeds from that crop and the rest are just composting away along the fenceline. Jeremy had a good idea. He said I should try planting one to make sure it's going to sprout. I'd hate to have all my little seeds planted in the toilet paper tubes I've been saving and not take off. As I found out last summer, we planted too late. Each year we will learn something new. In the meantime we will enjoy winter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">"to everything there is a season..."</span></div>
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Morgan is going to be in Europe for a month with her friend, Amy. They planned on going to Disneyland and since it is one of my favorite places, I said "I should meet you there". The idea was planted. I can't shake it. Could I really go? Paris has never been on my list of places to visit but I just don't think I can pass this up. Why not...do it!!</div>
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1. Do not attend Junk Salvation in Hillsboro in February.</div>
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2. Do not attend EXPO in March. ( Easily saving $700 or more)</div>
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3. Do not carry debit card to work everyday. (If I need it plan for it.)</div>
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4. Only $20 per paycheck budgeted to thrifting. (I couldn't go cold turkey)</div>
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5. Trip to Philadelphia Easter weekend paid for up front.</div>
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This is one of my goals for 2013 so I'm going to make it happen!</div>
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My first experience with purchasing digital design. I liked this a lot and bought the file. Lexy helped me download and convert it to a photo file and I had it printed at Walmart.</div>
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Now I can proclaim the reason for the season.</div>
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This is the first year in a while that I haven't done my countdown to Christmas calender. Instead I just left this one up to look at all month (like Sandra does with hers). I made 4 of them for the sales and etsy. People just haven't fallen in love with them like we have.<br />
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Colonial Village is set in the bay window.</div>
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My Christmas chubbies have replaced the everyday ones and the cactus has just finished blooming.</div>
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There's Mr. and Mrs. Santa Clause, a snowman and a caroler.<br />
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I love my funnel trees and the red antifreeze can makes the perfect vase for winter greens.</div>
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I change out these cloche's for each season.</div>
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Santa and his reindeer.</div>
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I have several books from when the kids were little and the classics are Morgan's favorites. Now I get them a children's book each year for their own collection.</div>
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This little book set is from my childhood and it is one of my favorite things.</div>
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A santa from my tole painting days.</div>
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A gift from my sister-in-law that gets hung up every year.</div>
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Very old village houses came from some of Phyllis' things.</div>
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(my mother-in-law)</div>
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I like deer, and green wreaths and windows so I put them all together. I could go on and on but these are some of the things I get to enjoy every December.</div>
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On my walk down Kerns Loop there are signs that the elk are actively moving back and forth from mountain to valley. This little crossing goes into our upper field.</div>
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There's trails like this in several places. When there is a frost or fresh snow in the morning it's fun to see where they have been walking.<br />
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Looks like a rig drove up here but it's elk tracks. This seems to be their favorite spot to cross, at least on our road. It really is quite an adventure watching them all winter.</div>
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Monday I started a new round of Feeling Great in 8. That means I have to exercise 5 days a week. Walking has been my go to exercise of choice. I have a beautiful place to walk. It's getting dark so soon though. I got off early today so I hurried home and bundled up.</div>
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This is my "Wyatt" hat. I got it to wear when I was talking to him on facebook a couple weeks ago. Now it will keep me warm on my walks and I think of him (and Grayson) the whole time I'm wearing it.<br />
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I walk the loop. It's a nice 2 mile walk to the other end of Kerns Loop and back.</div>
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After I get to the bottom of the hill near Hassingers, I turn around and head back up this little incline. It's a nice workout. In fact sometimes I only go to the top of this or half way down but I really need to go the whole distance.</div>
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I saw a herd of deer tonight. Turkeys are often around, especially in the spring, but I did see some a few weeks back. There's a tree on the corner that they roost in. Everyday quail fly up out of the shrubs. Morgan and I watched a little owl family earlier in the year. It's is quite enjoyable exercise.</div>
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Moving Day. Sherwood, Kerri, Dylan and Gareld (plus other helpers) spent the weekend moving out of Merlin's shop. It's kind of sad. He died in 2003 but his shop has still been there all these years. Gareld would say "I'm going over to dad's to work on the Nova", or I'm going to go borrow dad's saw.<br />
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I'd say "does your dad have any casters over there?" "Dad has one". "Let's go to North Powder and park that in Dad's shop." The times we've thought of or spoken of him go on and on. It was a big job.<br />
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Sherwood hauled his stuff over to his in- laws place in Haines. Gareld hauled his stuff here. Now that it is Sherwood's and Gareld's we can't borrow "Dad's" stuff anymore. Can you imagine how much was in that huge shop that had accumulated over 30 some years.<br />
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Everyone used this space to store things with all the moves we've all had.<br />
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Those shelves were full of a lot of treasures. This is Dylan's project car.<br />
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The North Powder house finally sold after all these years so it forced us to all find a place for our own stuff.<br />
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It's almost empty. There are a few more things to get but it was a long few days and the loads were all full at the end of today.<br />
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Gareld parked his loaded trailer inside tonight. He was ready to sit for awhile and unload it tomorrow.<br />
He came home with some good stuff. Notice the cupboard laying on it's side here at the end of the trailer. That's mine :)<br />
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We thought Sherwood was going top keep the cider press. We have it! Now we need to take care of all the apple trees so we can press some fresh cider next fall. Maybe as part of our Shabulous celebration.<br />
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Goodbye North Powder childhood home. No more connection to that property.
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Here's a spring on the property up above the orchard. We are going to put a pond in here that will be fed by this spring. </div>
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I took a few before pictures to be followed up with some after shots. In a few weeks this will be a big hole. We discovered that our well doesn't have an unlimited supply of water. We couldn't even water the pumpkin patch like we wanted let alone have enough to water a lawn. We put the lawn on hold for a year and we are trying this. We will water from the pond.</div>
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Gareld will be putting a feed plot in here next to the pond. The food and water should attract some animals. </div>
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We did see evidence the bear has been around.</div>
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One last look before the heavy equipment moves in.</div>
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I mentioned a while back that we were building somethng again. Gareld put more shelves in the storage room of the shop. Our goal is to get everything out of the ugly single wide we have been using as a storage unit for the last three years. I have been packing it full already.<br />
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Making use of every available space, we hung hooks from the rafters to handle our collection of chairs.<br />
These four I got at a yard sale and we used them for alot of years in the house on spruce street.<br />
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These other chairs hanging high were Phyllis'. Her table and chairs come in quite handy for big family gatherings.<br />
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Oh and back to the first photo...Morgan has chairs too.<br />
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Might as well use bike hooks for their intended purpose. One day (you know how that goes) restoration projects will be started.<br />
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It doesn't take long to fill it up. I'm going to work on this tomorrow. I have a bazaar to get ready for.<br />
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Levittown, PA is an interesting place. It is a suburb of Philadelphia. This is Monica's hometown. Her mom still lives there in the house Monica grew up in. A community built in the 50's, there are 17,000 homes. There are only 5 house plans. Monica lives in the C section. All the streets start with the letter "c". The houses are also all the same plan. Almost all have been altered over the last 60 years but you can tell they were the same at one time. The man who built it planned it as a community with churches and schools. No streets come together at a 4 way intersection...he wanted easy flowing traffic through the peaceful setting. Google it. It is quite facinating.</div>
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Here's a back view of the houses. They have that little back knockout on the second floor.</div>
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The view from the front of one of the homes in the neighborhood. This one still has the garage.</div>
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Garage gone and porch added.</div>
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I just loved walking around looking at the differences and similarities.</div>
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Reminds me of those movies about the 60's where the men come out of every house on the block at the same time, carrying the same briefcase and getting into the same car. They did a search during an anniversary to find a home that was completely original on the exterior. There was one house that came close but not close enough to win the prize. The house numbers had been changed.</div>
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One house in the hood had some major renovations. It was on Extreme Makeover Home Edition. It really doesn't look like it belongs here anymore. "Bus driver move that bus!" The other homeowners on the block got to choose either new turf for the lawn or a new sidewalk. (Maybe so it would look good on TV)</div>
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The other Grandparents, Bob and Lisa, live here. Monica and the boys are staying here for awhile. It's a cute house in a very nice neighborhood. We were happy to visit them there.</div>
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Years ago the kids raised some pheasants. When they got too big to keep in town we brought them out to the property. These just might be decendants. </div>
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One of the things I've been looking forward to since we have all this room out here on the property is hosting a show. I love to go to other people's shows so why not have one here. Sandra and I pulled one off this past Saturday. It was a lot of fun and a huge success for the first time out.</div>
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A vendor already here with a load thursday morning. We had two busy days of setting up and getting everything ready. We had twelve vendors this year and hope to double that for the next one.<br />
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Vintage trailers on display. This is something we hope to expand next year. We may try to have a Sisters on the Fly campout and get a lot more cute trailers out here. It is fun to look through them. We had Morgan's, mine, Lexy's, Gareld's and our neighbor Connie brought her's down.<br />
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Morgan spent three days baking goodies for her booth. BoBo Dean's did really well. Customers were eating it up! She makes delicious cheescake and a whole lot more.<br />
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Some friends of ours brought out their miniature horses and gave kids free rides. They were a big hit!!<br />
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The pumpkins were a summer long adventure. All went well until right before we were leaving for a week on vacation. The deer started eating them and the magical deer repellent wasn't stopping them. We picked them all and put them in a trailer until the show. It was fun to grow them. <br />
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We talked about getting a food vendor to be a part of the show but I had an idea one day that we could do soup and bread. Here's the Soup Kitchen crew. On a cool day who doesn't like soup?<br />
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My Shabby Shack. I love it! I liked the idea of it. I had fun planning for it, then watching it being built and painting it. Decorating it has been a joy. Working with Gareld on the porch and pergola gave us some together time. Filling it and setting it up for a show is on of my favorite things to do.<br />
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The critter cam catches all kinds of creatures.<br />
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Family members picking blackberries.
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We haven't seen these little visitors before.<br />
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We are trying to get a good picture of the bear but here he is.<br />
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Gareld moved the camera to a new spot so we will keep you posted on anything that shows up.<br />
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Gareld left the tractor parked out back last weekend so it was the perfect opportunity to get a photo of the old house in the background. Summer is on the way out and Fall is on the way.</div>
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As of this year 2012 this is a century farm. It has been in the same family for 100 years!</div>
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Here's the fenceline at the top of our property. We have 80 acres. As we were driving up the road to the neighbors house I said to Gareld, "we have a lot of property I've never seen." I guess I need to walk the fenceline sometime like Morgan has done. It sure was pretty up there looking out over the valley.</div>
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Our neighbors have a beautiful, big house filled with hunting trophies, head mounts, full body mounts and georgeous furnishings. It was fun to walk through and see it all. It was like a wildlife museum...in fact they had a wildlife museum in Joseph at one time so when they built the house they built it big enough to house all the animals. There are fullbody mounts of cow and bull elk, cougars, wolves, coyote, racoons, lion, zebra, moose, deer, african animals, sheep, goats, bears, and caribou just to name a few. Many years of successful hunting are represented. There was an awesome head mount of a red stag that he got in New Zealand last year. The reason I was up there was to see her vintage trailer and antiques that she is going to have at our Shabulous show in October. It was nice to be invited up.</div>
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Here's a view of our place on the way down. There's extra cars and kids down there. Morgan had some friends and cousins over to shoot clay pigeons. We really need to get that storage trailer emptied out and torn down. It's an eyesore. There's a hand made sign going up the road that says "mobile home road". We wondered if it was named for our ugly single wide we bought to live in if we needed a temporary home before the house was ready. It was a pretty drive on a pretty day.</div>
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The berries are on. I passed these beauties on my walk today so I grabbed the pick-up and parked beside this bush and filled up a big bowl in no time.</div>
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Self portrait..me and the berries.</div>
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Beautiful, fresh, fruit.</div>
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It's nice having a daughter around that loves to bake!!</div>
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Thanks, Morgan</div>
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This hardware bin (or cubby, as I call it) is one of my very favorite items. I found it in an antique store in Hood River on my way to the antique show one year. I was in my car so I had to make a trip back a few days later to pick it up. I love it. I had it in my kitchen in our other house. It looked really cute loaded with vintage kitchen items. It then went into storage for two years. I missed it a lot. I was hoping it would fit in the layout of our new home and it did. It now has a perfect spot in our home.</div>
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Can you imagine the excitement when I went to an estate sale this morning at a plumbing business that had been around for 50 years. That guy had bins on every wall in every room. I bought a couple of them. Dad got some for his shop. A friend was there putting her name on some. They were priced to move out fast.</div>
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Here's one of them. It was a steal at $15.</div>
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Now where will we put them. As much as I would love to have another in the house there is just no room. I don't even think I could fit one in the Shabby Shack. The bigger one of the two will go in Gareld's shop. They were just too good to pass up. Right place at the right time. I love it when that happens. We were in such a hurry to get on the road to Kennewick or I may have gotten carried away and bought more.</div>
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