Best surprise yet!

Well long time no see but a great surprise. Danny's cuz Dave and his wife Joy surprised us with a visit. We figured that the last time we saw each other was when Ronnie and I traveled with Ken and Shirley to Rochester back 26 years ago. Their youngest son is attending Duke and they called to say hey. So we said come on over and sit a spell.This is me Lumberjack Debbie. I split all the wood in the wagon behind me and some more after that. Yea Me!!!

Then I got this craft idea from a magazine and said "I can do that." And I did! Junk found in the woods(no surprise) two chimney liners. So I washed the outside applied mastic and colored glass and did a art project for the garden.Not bad for a old lady!That right an old lady! Guess what came in the mail. They can't think I'm old enough yet?

This is my latest achievement. I have installed electric lighting! Yea Me again!!! I removed the 1978 florescent light over the bathroom mirror and installed this myself! Yes , I have not burned the house down!

And Elaine is arriving on Saturday. We have found a Museum like the one in NY. Very hands on and people at each house with 1700- 1800 style clothes and trades. I'll get more out on the blog after this weekend.

Now earlier in the summer you saw us sitting on this butterfly at the museum in Durham. Well Beepa and I found them to buy for a paltry $2,000.00.

I had that money in my other pair of pants (Hee Hee)

Beepa hit this rock with her car and broke it.

"Split Rock"Now this is tricky but I had a .......

Pic's of the blue ridge mountains

Funny Story: One of the things I miss most about NH was the ability to Drive an hour to the ocean, Drive an hour to the mountains, Drive an hour to the lake, drive an hour to the city of Boston.

So after hearing about Grandfather Mountain and buying a Garmin, Beepa and I said" lets drive over and see this beautiful natural site on our own." Well three hours later we arrived. Yes it was beautiful but hurricane force winds kept us off the top. Oh and time constraints kept us on the go to turn around and head home. Because we thought it was an hour away and we left the dogs home.

It was a quick visit and definitely worth going back another day (and stay over night).

So here is Grandfather Mountain. Trick or Treat or as they do in the south Trunk or Treat.Now to explain here in the south they park their cars at the churches. Open their trunks , decorate them and then trick or treat from the car trunk!( Different and they say"safer")

Sad Day !I miss NH's good old fashion night of scarring!

We'll just keep a photo journal on the changing season.

Our house is tucked into the oaks. This is our huge front lawn.

Nice place to have a party!

Well on a sad note, we lost our best friend of 13 years. Our cocker spaniel "Toby" had to be put to sleep this week. He was very sick and hung in there for the move south. He loved the "don't need a leash" code we started to live by. But he got sick again and it was time to let him go. We miss him so much but we didn't want him suffering anymore. Just thought you all might want to know about it.

The Farm is growing!

Well I read Teresa's blog and realized that this BLOG thing has given us a chance to back track and show you all what our last 28 years of marriage has been like.

This was the earliest nice cute costumes then it just went down hill from there.
So here are our photos from Halloweens past. Our good neighbors Lisa and her family came over in the early years to help scare the kids.
Yup! That's the middle daughter Kathy in the coffin!
Me looking my scariest. Nice hair!

The hair just got bigger and uglier every year.
Then we started hidding and getting more blood.

The killer dental nurse! Very me can you guess who I take after(Gramma Helen)

Then I found New England photos and wanted you to see both states through my eyes!

This is a pig fence .When there was quiet time on the plantations in winter, slave owners sent the slaves up into the mountains to build stone walls to keep the wild pigs from coming down and distroying the crops.

These are the Blue Ridge Mountains

The pull off vistas are amazing!

Quiet location on the Biltmore Estate.

Waterfall on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Fall at it's best

Now compare those colors to New England

Gilmanton, NH

Road to Bahre Property in Alton, NH

Our Southern Fall

Some body pinch me it's 84 degrees today! This can't be real but yes it is ,the south is beautiful! Beepa and I are working hard on our gardens. I've moved 7-8 shrubs this week and gotten alot of the dirt into my new rock gardens at the front of the house. She has been clearing out more of the scrub brush behind her house and is saving the bees nest. She really wants to save them .

Aunt Elaine is coming back for a revisit before her coupons expire. Lucky us she chose NC again. I'll get more photos this weekend as we are hoping to visit a place up north called Grandfather Mountain. The colors are at peak. We'll see what they call peak here in the south. Hee Hee because we all know what peak really is after living in New England!!!

Phase Two!

Well now that the wine is finished off, and the fire is done burning,

and the eating and painting is consumed.
Oh lets not forget the dice game "BONES"The serious work has gotten done.

I finished the stone walls today.

Next is installing the brown dirt(that's extra $) for the new plantings!!!

Got the stone walls done!

My Mommy and Daddy

Visitors to NC

Well where do I begin?

The Aunties drinking tea by the patio.

Aunt Dot and Uncle Bob arrived Thursday.Uncle Bob? or a Sun Goddess? you decide.

(Note the angle of his sexy leg) such grace!
The fire got started around 3:30 pm and the last one in was around 12:00am



Just a look at our new walkways

Front walkway before

After

Back walkway before

After

We took a trip over to Cortney's and Teresa's on Thursday

This is Cortney's new Kitty "Lola"

She was rescued and she's about a year and a half old.

This is Cortney's apartment

Grampa relaxing on the deck

Then we took Gramma and Grampa to the Plantation.Well after the tour we found the wine tasting room.

Which led to "wine tasting"

Which led to wine buying.
Which led to napping. Hee Hee