October Color and Clean-Up!

 

💝 HOME SWEET HOME  💖
26th year

After many years without fish, tank cleaned/seasoned
 Welcome Finn & Tally (Fancy Goldfish) and 2 Snails have
been added!

SO TRUE  (as seen on FB)

Look who turned 8 years old: The Party was over in a Flash!!! Happy Birthday Mya 💖

Mya, Emma, Willow

WHEN I AM OLD

When I am old...

I will wear soft gray sweatshirts...

and a bandana over my silver hair...

and I will spend my social security checks on my dogs.

I will sit in my house on my well-worn chair

and listen to my dogs breathing.

I will sneak out in the middle of a warm summer night

and take my dogs for a run, if my old bones will allow...

When people come to call, I will smile and nod

as I show them my dogs...

and talk of them and about them...

...the ones so beloved of the past

and the ones so beloved of today...

I will still work hard cleaning after them,

mopping and feeding them and whispering their names

in a soft loving way.

I will wear the gleaming sweat on my throat,

like a jewel, and I will be an embarrassment to all...

especially my family...

who have not yet found the peace in being free

to have dogs as your best friends...

These friends who always wait, at any hour, for your footfall...

and eagerly jump to their feet out of a sound sleep,

to greet you as if you are a God,

with warm eyes full of adoring love and hope

that you will always stay,

I'll hug their big strong necks...

I'll kiss their dear sweet heads...

and whisper in their very special company....

I look in the mirror... and see I am getting old....

this is the kind of person I am...

and have always been.

Loving dogs is easy, they are part of me.

Please accept me for who I am.

My dogs appreciate my presence in their lives...

they love my presence in their lives...

When I am old this will be important to me...

you will understand when you are old,

if you have dogs to love too.

-Author Unknown

It's Orange Vest Time  💬

Off on a Sunny Road trip -
Fall photoshoot, Apples, Pumpkins & Pies  😎

Hunter's Moon... 

Beautiful Fall day for Scent Tracking 
out in Massachusetts fields😎

Emma proud of her find  😄

Romping thru the field - WaHoooo!!!

Found a little water!

A Wonderful Memory of a 2015 Adventure Roadtrip!

Otters fishing our pond - fascinating to watch!

What - Rolling into September Already!!!

(as seen on FB)

Leftover hurricane rain All Night to start September, but Sun is out this morning!

We had w/e visitors  💖
(God-daughter Jessica & BF Donald)

"Hey, Wait for Us!"


Working on a gorgeous September Fall weekend in Massachusetts fields for an AKC Scent Tracking Test - girls were just spectators from the van, but were rewarded with Ice Cream, running free in a field and wading in a cool stream - Thank You gift yellow Mum from the Club!

Welcome August - Dog Days of Summer!

 

As documented in July post, what a Strange Summer it has been with July's frequent downpours and now sooo Hopeful for a calmer August:

• creating driveway gullies and finally a long coming decision to resurface the driveway
• high rushing pond water taking out part of the dam - "Beav" & I are working on repairs
• water seeping into basement creating "clean-up/throw-out" project 25 years in the making
• fleet of boats full to the brim with water - lots of "bailing"
• beautiful lush green grass enjoyed by a new family of wild rabbits 
• mushrooms of various colors/sizes/shapes galore - challenge to beat dogs to picking/discarding into fenced garden - girls are great mushroom hunters and not all are safe to eat
• lovely colors of flower blooms but limited veggies  
• our Beaver is enjoying "his" full pond and adding an extension to his Lodge  
• Visits by Mallard duck with 2 ducklings, Wood duck mother and 2 ducklings, 3 Merganser ducks diving for tiny Hornpout, 2 Blue Herons fishing the pond edges and diving Otter

Finally time to Get Away as a Family!

ALL "Parker" cousins haven't seen
each other since extended family
childhood Thanksgiving gatherings
in Grandparents farm home in 
Lowell Massachusetts!
(Started Cousin Zoom meetings in 2021)

Golden Family Get-Away  💝

Ohhh Happy Day  💖

Donna & Willow 💞
(photo by Kara)

First load of 2022 firewood delivery!

Emma helping with basement "Clean-Up"
project ... Sentimental only to me, as 
I cleaned years of  4-H Dairy Goat
winnings!

Back in the Day!

Peach crop is picked - Yummy (that's it, one basket!)

Rolling into July - Rain, Rain, Rain!

July has started with lots of rainwater outside (going on 4 days now) and not a drop of water indoors for 2 days (prepared with saved gallons of water for power outages and they filled the bill) - new well pump needed for 2005 Well and human shower never felt so good! Mama birds are busy at the suet feeders as fledglings are brought to the feelers outside the kitchen window and are they vocal! Our wild rabbit has a friend (Oh Oh) and they are out early grazing clover while Golden girls are still asleep! Hummingbirds are also busy at the Nectar feeder and a Spectacular sighting was multiple Hummers feeding at once!

Flip-Phone photo thru Bedroom screen window!

HAPPY 4th of JULY from Our Home to Yours
(as seen on FB)

Only a quick second to capture our only wild
Mallard Ducklings this year! 

Early morning and Late evening "nibblers"!

We're heading into the last week of July and what a RAINY month it has been (rain gage couldn't hold it all) - the past weekend was non-stop downpours that filled the boats, gully-washed the driveway, roared over the dam, washing out part of it and saturated ground, brought water into the basement - throw rugs are dripping outside and dehumidifier is running non-stop - luckily a lot of  basement stuff has been up on wood boards since a pipe burst many years back!!!

Accumulated downpours rushing over dam and
breeching a section!

Bright spot in this month - Mya and beautiful
Daylilies!

More bailing of boat fleet!

Basement soaked throw rugs drying from week of
downpours seeping thru foundation!

Towing dead trees to dam to fill in "breach"
and the Beaver is hauling branches too!

Filling/grading downpour gullies
in driveway 😲

Took the camera out, while the Golden Girls slept and captured these great photos of Hummingbird feeding at wildflower "Touch-Me-Not"  💖

 

When the Peddle-boat has gallons of heavy water
that have seeped under floor during a week of
torrential downpours - required pulling boat
upon shore with tractor, pulling plug and gradually
raising it to drain with crowbar and blocks!

Whew, hours later, drained and
"Muscle Sore"!

May be a Bit Bias  💖
(as seen on FB)

Done & Done ... driveway Professionally fixed!
(Golden Retriever Approved!)