Happy Veterans Day....

...Thank You...

Ferdinan the Bull.....

To you remember that children's book?

It was one of my favorites...

This picture reminds me of the cover on my copy...

This is Lula's Spot...

This is where she sits many hours in the day watching over the Twelve Acre Wood..

She can view the entire valley ... the roads... and both houses from this spot..

She always looks stoic and peaceful sitting there...

Under the large white pine tree keeping watch...

If it was a cork tree (or was it an olive tree in the story?)...

things would be next to perfect....

..Hope is Forever..

I Don't Care...

..if the calendar says we're still in Fall..

There's a lot of jockeying for "Sun Puddles" going on in the house and that's a sure sign of Winter...!

..Hope is Forever..

Yuck.....

This is what it looks like outside...

YUCK

and rumor has it that this will turn into snow by tonight...

double Yuck...!!

We did order Lula a new doghouse..

Maybe it will get here before Spring...

..Hope is Forever..

Hump Day....

and it looks like a beautiful one..!

My 25 year old radio alarm clock died..

I could no longer set the time and the radio control would no longer stay on our local farm reporting station...

Sooo...I pulled the battery back-up..tossed it in the trash and went to the local Wally World...

Do you know how many alarm clocks are now on the market....!!

Regular old clocks...ditigal clocks...clocks with radios....clocks with USB ports....clocks with a port to charge your cell phone....clocks with IPad ports....faces with large numbers....faces with numbers you can shine on the ceiling....

Whoa.....choices...!!

I just wanted one that would wake me at 6am Monday thru Friday and keep fairly good time.

Found One...!!

Brought it home...got it all set with the correct time...correct wake-up time....just the right distance from the bed...

This morning i woke with a school fire alarm going off next to me...

Who knew it had a volume control...!!??

..Hope is Forever..

TGI Tuesday

I don't talk politics very often....in fact almost never..

But

I'm so glad it's election day...

The political TV adds got sooooo bad up here in the high country that I voted for the Third Party candidate ..... 

The adds got soooo bad that in one commerical one party was comparing the other party to Nazis!

This election seems to have turned into a "Control issue"

 

We've got problems in this nation guys!!

Let's work together...

 

Maybe my ears will get a little rest before 2016 election season starts in 2015...

 

..Hope is Forever..

Nailed It....!!

This is what the front yard looked like at 7am Saturday morning...
Weather gurus got it right...!
4.5 inches......so much that some of the ski resorts opened 2-4 week early
and more snow to come this Friday..
It wasn't a light-fluffy-slowly drifting down from the sky snow...
NO
It was heavy - wet - blowing side-ways snow and looked like a blizzard most of the day.
By this afternoon it'll be gone...

..Hope is Forever..