...what a wonderful afternoon...!!!  The sun shone beautiful all day yesterday!  Had a fun afternoon.....I mowed the yard for one of the last times this year....  Already looking forward to that job next summer!!!  The sun felt sooo good!  The sky was soo blue...in the morning the sky looked like 'Someone' glued a whole bag of cottonballs up there.  I had to be gone in the morning and 'til I got home the sky was beautiful blue....

(Matches our mailbox...---for those of you that are in the 'dark'  I have it painted 'New Holland' blue!)    I was merrily mowing...came across this..?????

Can anyone explain it???????    Mr. Jack Frost visited a few nights ago...He must have thot that since he couldn't stay very long he decided to have some fun while he was here and created a labyrinth for us..... It is real wierd!! There is one big patch like that....   Something else I discovered.... We don't need go to Egypt to see the pyrimids like some folks do....we had them in our front yard!!!!

Miniature ones, but so what!!!    Some were better constructed than some....some looked like they needed some more time on the 'drawing board', Yet and still....they were all demolished in the end!!!      Trust me...you didn't want to be in the close proximity of one after I hit it with the mower!!!  After a rain, you can expect them to pop up over night!  Really!!!  They are industrious creatures!  But then the Bible tells us that!!    Proceeded with my project....over half done and noticed one of the 'wheel jobbies' on the front of the deck, --the pin that holds it on was working itself out.  I stopped out by the fence, thinking that I could find a wire to slip in it to temp. hold it on....was walking mebbie two yards from the mower...WHOA!!!!   I changed directions real fast and headed for the shed for my trusty hoe!!! 

One whack took care of him.......   whew--satisfied release of breath and weak knees.....

You guessed right...see that eye???   Trust me...he was very dead when I took that picture!!!! (Didn't look like it tho...he turned around and bit himself!!)   Yes, its a Rattler, he one one small button on his tail, I left him keep it, didn't think it was worth chopping off.   I moved him to a spot on the concrete to take his picture....he wasn't real big...but big enough for my hoe to find!!  Oh I hate those slithery things......***shivers***  --I had my mind and eyes 'seeing' them the rest of the day...pretty much promised myself that I wasn't going barefooted outside again for awhile...those that know me, guess what!!   Ha!!  Already messed up that plan!!!!

Hey I gotta run...  Hope everybody has a wonderful day.... ~ ~go kill a snake!!   ~ ~

Later..... Diane

we havn't dropped off the face of the earth!!!!

We have just been busy or just not taking the time to update!!     Whatever.....

Steve and I have both pretty well finished our projects that we have been working on...me our bedroom...still a few things that need something yet...-- in time.....We are real tickled with how it has turned out!  Just need to find something for the windows.  There are mini-blinds, but....---the right 'thing' hasn't 'jumped' out at me yet!

I think a new bedspread is in order in the near future.....

Steve's project is one that he has wanted to do every since he got his pick-up truck in '96....after 280,000 miles, one of his dreams have come true.....

Kent wanted to take it for a drive....

A paint job and yes...dual 5" pipes out the top!!~  Is it 'big truck' blood or what???  It looks great and because of the Cummins diesel,  ....it sounds wonderful too!!!!!!  

Yes...you guessed right...I like it!!!!         I need to come up with a ligit. reason to take it to Augusta for something!! 

I need to run...hope everyone has a wonderful day!!! 

Blessings to you.....

Hay to make...work...washing, cooking, just life....painting is going real slow!  I am ready to be finished with the job and get my room put back to right...whatever that is..!!!   

Blessings to all!!!  Have a wonderful day!!!  Going to the field in a little....