Friday, October 27, 2006



Meet Hank the tank. DH's horse that hasn't been ridden in I can't remember when. He has a good life. He used to be lonely until we put a couple cows in his pasture. Most horses don't like cows, but Hank doesn't mind them. In the back ground is our neighbor Bob's grape vineyard. It turns a beautiful gold in the fall. The other picture is my coral bark maple. After the leaves fall, the bark turns a beautiful deep coral color.

Monday, October 16, 2006


I love the autumn colors. These are sugar maples that I planted about 15 years ago. They were little sticks I bought from the Arbor Foundation annual sale for a buck a piece. The colors they turn will just knock your socks off. Something about these trees gets me all nostalgic. Thinking about how I planted them and how they've grown and the whole aging thing gets me. I wonder if they'll still be around after I'm not?

Friday, October 13, 2006






Time flies when you're hungry. I've lost 8 pounds since I last posted. I'm trying not to think of this as a diet, because I'm starting to come to the realization that I'm going to have to limit what I eat for the rest of my life if I want to be a normal weight. Especially since I'm such a slug when it comes to exercise. This is what I've been eating.... Breakfast, usually cereal or an english muffin & piece of fruit, sometimes cottage cheese & fruit. Lunch, a Lean Cuisine meal and veggie or fruit. Dinner, usually chicken or fish, occasionally lean beef, lots of veggies, sometimes FF pudding or SF jello, or a Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich for dessert. I'm feeling better already, just being in control of my eating really helps my overall mental state.

OK. enough of that talk.

No gardening going on. I should be out cleaning up beds before the rainy weather starts, but I just can't seem to get too motivated when I don't even know if we're going to be living here next spring. I'll find out on November 7th, election day, if our property has been annexed into the city as a new subdivision. Until then, we're in limbo. The one and only property on the market that we were interested in sold, so even if we knew we had to move today, we have no idea where we'd move to. We need someplace with lots of vehicle storage, since Rick likes to collect cars, and tractors, and a boat, etc. The pictures above are just a few of his toys. Actually, the red Impala is mine - he bought it for me - and I didn't even know I wanted it.