The Boat!!!!

 

This picture is for Mike. We took these in the fall when we purchased the boat. I’ll be taking more and posting them soon. So Mike, HERE IS THE BOAT!!

June is over! Summer is here!!

As you can see, Honey is enjoying her with a new rope toy. This picture was taken on my iPad and I just uploaded all the pictures to my computer to look at in Windows Live Photo Gallery. That allows me to then upload pictures and I believe video to the blog. I cropped this picture so the program lets me do basic editing. I’ll have to try video once I figure how to orient it the correct. I took all the video in horizontal and it looks like it’s sideways. So I’ll have to fool around with that.
June was a crazy month with cool, cold and now hot and muggy weather. The boat is in the water and we did take a couple rides – one to get gas. B is a great captain and I’m a very good first mate!! I just jump off the boat and tie it up when we get gas. Boating skills learned on our larger aft cabin have not been forgotten so I’m OK at securing the lines when we dock. Other than that, I sit back and enjoy the view!
This year I cut back on planting – just put herbs in the containers on the middle deck. I did plant flowers on the back patio in the two in ground planters. The chippies appear to be enjoying some of the plants but they do look nice from the kitchen window. I put red mulch in the beds today after weeding. One bed gets more weeds than the other.
We had the house and decks cleaned and painted in the beginning of June. No change in color – but the cleaning really did make a difference! We have done painting and touch up as well as cleaned parts of the house (solid cedar house) but this guy used a power washer and did the entire house (we don’t do ladders) and it really made a difference.
I’m going to post this as a draft and see if I can download pictures from the phone and then open and post….

While the picture and text was saved as a draft I could not upload a video. So, I created a video and lets see if that will upload...  It worked! The video is actually two one short (VERY short) of Honey playing with some cardboard we were ready to take to the trash and the other Honey playing with a little toy newspaper. I'll try to get some more pictures posted shortly.

Rain in the afternoon

After several days of rain it was nice to see the sun. The morning was bright and we warmed up a bit. After lunch we went outside to plant some grasses I had ordered. Since they came late Tuesday they needed to get in the ground. We stopped a bit before 1 as we enjoy watching The Chew. The sky was getting dark and shortly after the program was over it started to rain. Really heavy and the CLAP thunder followed by a major crack of lightening. It started to hail and I grabbed the iPad took both a short video and then the two pictures and at that point the lights flickered and we lost power for about 5 minutes. The rain has stopped and we hope to finish planting. At least we don't need to water!

A rainy morning

Rain again!

The other day Honey was in her chair curled up sleeping and looked like she might roll out any minute. I hope this picture shows on the post!

A Bear Came to Visit!

Last week (yea, I haven't been posting) B was in the bedroom and gave a yell. I came running in to observe this rather large black bear going through our property. The bear had come from our next door neighbor and was just a bit behind the driveway. I grabbed a camera and took several pictures - this is the only one that turned out. He/she continued to the right and we could see it in the direction of the stream. Our neighbors have reported seeing bear on their property but we never did. The closest we came was seeing a bear going up the road. However, we were told that was just a baby bear. Well, this one sure wasn't baby. Thankfully Honey was inside. Ah, life in the wilds of PA!