Winter Wonderland

We had a "real" snow day yesterday. Bose was closed, my agility class was cancelled and we just stayed home and watched the snow fly. That is... until we had to go move about 18-20 inches of the stuff. Boy... my aching back. It sure does look pretty, crisp and white. I'll don my snowshoes today and venture out with the dogs to pack a path in the woods. Yesterday they had to leap like rabbits to get anywhere. Stay tuned....

VISIT TO RAYMOND

Last Saturday we took a drive to Raymond to walk our woodlot with a couple of guys from the logging company who are going to be cutting our land. The scenery was spectacular with the sun glistening off the ice on the trees as we drove up Valley Road. After we took our walk we decided to drive up to Gore Road to see our old house. It still looks about the same, but there is a bay window in what used to be the garage. They must have turned that into some kind of room. The shed and the barn are still the same. As we drove up the road on the left, the Plummer's house is gone and there is a little blue/gray ranch in it's place. There is also a new road right after that house which is a new development. I think that the Plummers must have sold a bunch of their land.
After that we drove down 85 to the corner of 302. There was a sign on that old, red building (which has housed many businesses... a couple of restaurants and a book store) that said "Wine Tasting Today". Of course we had to go in... and it is now a lovely deli and gift shop.
When Lee was done "tasting" his fill, we drove down 302 thru Windham. There have been many changes there, too. They have a Lowe's, Home Depot and a few more strip mall stores.
Anyway, it was fun to take a trip down memory lane.... enjoy the pics.

AUTUMN LEAVES

Well, we thought we cleaned up the lawn and it looked magnificent. Then all the oak trees decided it was time to dump all their leaves. Oh well... get out the leaf vacuum again. With the rest of our weekend spoken for until December, we hope that we can collect these before the snow falls.

AUTUMN IN NEW ENGLAND

I love the sound of my feet swishing through the leaves while walking down the trails with the dogs on a cool, crisp autumn day. The sky is clear blue, the sun is bright and there is no humidity and no bugs. Doesn't get any better than this.... :)

SEPTEMBER 11TH

I hope that we never forget!!

TO GRANDMA'S HOUSE

A typical day at Mom's...
A little shopping, lunch and some yard work. I came home with some lovely hydreangas, an antique bushel basket, some old wooden shingles to use for kindling and her broken lawn mower. I hope the diagnosis can be made before she is wading through waste high grass to go out and get the mail :)

CATCHING UP

Well, it's been over a month since my last post. Things were busy with trips to Maryland, Maine, NH and Pennsylvania. We ran a couple of agility trials and moved all our furniture into our new house at the lake. Since temps are in the high 90's today, I thought I'd stay in this afternoon in the AC and catch up on my posts. It was 85 at 8:30 this morning when I got home from the gym. YUCK!! We're not ready for this heat yet. It was 54 last Friday and I was looking for an extra blanket for my bed since I had taken off my thick comforter in favor of a lighter one. We're supposed to get thunder storms this afternoon to cool things off a bit. We're all looking forward to some more temperate summer weather.
Enjoy the new posts.....

YARD WORK

We rented a de-thatching machine today to try to get the dead grass out of the lawn. Boy did that work great! We got tons and piles of thatch. The only trouble is that you have to hand rake the entire lawn after you run the machine over it. We literally raked for 7 hours and the lawn looked a little worse after we finished. I'm hoping that after the rainstorm tomorrow, it will all perk up again and look better than ever. It sure was a LOT of work. Now we just need to edge around our gardens and spread the pile of mulch that has been sitting there for two years.

END OF PROJECT 306

Well, springtime is getting busier than I thought and I am WAY behind in blogging a picture per day. I know that we will have a busy summer finishing and moving back into the Maine house, too. So... I have decided that I will post as often as I can and keep in touch thru those pictures, slide shows and videos when I have interesting and new things to post. Enjoy....

PROJECT 306 :: 33

PACKIN'

We're getting ready to leave bright and early tomorrow morning (4:30) for the Manchester Airport heading for Van Couver to spend 5 days with friends in Washington State. Looking forward to seeing some sights in the Pacific Northwest. Should have lots of new pictures when we return....

WHAT'S NEW..... (This week)
Had an awesome agility trial at the Equestrian Barn on Saturday
Had a joyous Easter Sunday in Maine with kids and grandkids
Talked to everyone on the phone
Laughed at blog posts
Had one of those expensive grocery weeks (needed everything)
Had a taste of spring weather on Wednesday (58 degrees)
Took some nice walks on bare ground
Went to Bedford and shopped with Mom
Picked up my newly framed piece of Aussie Art
Talked to Kevin
Brought in wood.... we're on our last row. Yikes!!
Learned that Kevin might be published in the Journal of Behavioral Science
Got stuck in traffic for an hour on 495 coming back from agility
Got another dusting of snow!
Learned that water is coming in our electrical box in Maine
The sheetrock is almost complete
Now for the weekend......

PROJECT 306: 3

Snowshoes, a pack of dogs and a trail in the woods. Good for the body, mind and soul.

I'M BACK

After taking more than a year off. I've decided to start trying to post on my blog again. Irene gave me a refresher course when we were in VA last week. I'm going to try to follow Cindy's routine and try to do one post per day. Today is March 1st... so I've lost 60 days of the 366 (leap year) this year. So I'll title mine Project 306!! Don't know if I'll have as many interesting posts as the kids.... but here goes. Things will be simple at first, but I'm sure I'll get better at it as time passes.