Let’s see if this works this time……….

Here I go again. I encountered an 'error' and lost my whole post. The WHOLE thing! It was amazing too, I'm sure you all are wailing and gnashing your teeth because I lost it! snicker snort! As I said before I am still on a learning curve and it seems I still have a way to go. And as it is eight hours later from when I wrote it I can't remember anything that was in it. Sigh....
I have been participating in a project for my sweet little niece in Pennsylvania not unlike Flat Princess. It's Flat Stanley and he was here for a visit with me this week. I needed to go check the lake house so he tagged along with me. It was gorgeous at the lake, the water was as smooth as a mirror and all was quiet except for the crunching leaves under my feet.



I wish I’d had my sewing machine with me and set it up right where I could look out and see the water but I had an appointment and had to continue on.
The boys are at the stable but I took some pictures of them before they left for the winter.  I think Nick was posing for me.


Chubby little Kip was waiting to see if there was something in it for him to walk over to the fence like a carrot or apple.  He is getting really fuzzy!


Little Bud came wandering over.  He is such a good ole boy.  He is in his 20’s, we bought him for Funsize about 15 or 16 years ago.  He is just one of those really honest horses that happily do what you want and never try to pull anything foolish.  I wish I could clone him only maybe 20 years younger.

They are all settled in at the stable and the one other boarder that is there is very happy for the company.  The owner used to have up to 20 boarders but is now near 70 years old so has cut way down since she broke her back about two years ago from a fall from a ladder.
Son and Mr. D are in Cleveland with the Patriot’s this weekend.  They flew out with them yesterday and will be home sometime Sunday night or Monday.  This is the first time Mr. D has gone on an away game with his Dad and he is having a blast.  When you fly with the team you have to wear a suit and tie so Son and DIL went to the mall and bought him one plus a Pat’s tie. Sorry I can’t put in any pictures until I figure out the Private thing.  Grrrrrrrrr…………

A new learning curve.

I am trying to master several new learning curves at one time.  One to go private and the other is a new way to do my posts.  My buddy Needled Mom sent me the link that she is now using as Blogger was acting up so I decided to give it a try.  I’m still trying things and will probably lose the whole thing before I’m done but here we go.

I am going private because my Kids do not want me to post pictures of my grandchildren any more.  They are concerned about weird*oes and heard about someone being sta*lked after being seen on a blog and mur*dered.  This did not happen around here but it scared them and I have to respect their wishes.  With that said, I started my blog to make a journal for my grandchildren to read when they are older and see some of the fun things that we have done over the years.  This has been a huge part of my blog so I hate to give up after 549 posts that I have printed off for them so I will go to plan B and go private.  Until then I won’t put any pictures in of their faces that can be recognizable.

Speaking of fun things, we carved pumpkins for Halloween last week.  They were quite big so it was a challenge to get the little plastic carving tools to work.  I finally got some of it started with a big knife and they finished with the tools to escape injury.

 

 

 

The finished project!

Sunday morning we got up to our first snow fall!  It didn’t stay on long but it was so pretty coming down in big fluffy flakes.

My footprints in the first snow of the season.

It was the day we had to move the boys to the stable so I bundled up and we loaded them in the trailer.  We took Lil’ Bud and Nick first leaving Kippy with a flake of hay to munch on so that he wouldn’t screech all the time we were gone.  It’s only 5 or 6 minutes up the road so Miss T and the Hubs unloaded them and we came back and got the Kip.  Kippy was very disgruntled to have been left alone so when we loaded him he was a little wound up and almost went right under the bar and out the escape door!!!  Thankfully Miss T was there and hung onto him and made him stand still until she got him hooked.

They are all settled in now and happy as a clam in pastures much larger then mine.  The one boarder that was there alone for the summer is glad for the company too.  I will get some pictures, it’s a nice place for them, only second to home!! heehee!

Good grief, where is the time going?  The Snow Birds are back in Florida along with Miss Buffy their cat.  They had a great nonstop flight on Alle*giant Air which makes it much nicer for them then making changes in Boston or Philly.  It was 86* when they arrived so Dad is in hog heaven!  I miss my walking buddy so will now walk around the neighborhood instead of the woods as it is hunting season.  Mom is settling in, getting unpacked and her home in order.  It seems quiet here and no one to go do errands with me or out to lunch but Mom and I will make up for it when they get back home in April.

My FIL got through his hip surgery fine and is doing so well that he might come home next week!  At 94 he is amazing!   He is in Boston and his youngest daughter is only five minutes away.

Well hopefully this will transfer over onto my blog or I will be in big trouble and probably take a rolling pin to my computer.  Time will tell………..

Thank you to all of you who e-mailed and want to stay with me private!  I still don’t know why I need the e-mail address and not the blog address but will find out soon.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!  xoxo

Going private.

Hi all.  I have decided to go private due to circumstances that I will explain later.  Nothing sinister or anything of that nature but it's either private or not at all.  If you would like to continue reading just e-mail me your e-mail addy and I will add you on.  I'm still trying to figure this all out so hang in there with me till I do.  Thanks!


Midlife Mom
thediz@roadrunner.com

Halloween Happenings~~~~~~BOO!

It's been Halloween around here a little early this year.  Lots of friendly spooks and happy haunters were roaming around the woods out in back of Son and DIL's home on Saturday night.


They, along with her sister and BIL spent many hours making a fun night for the neighborhood children and their parents.  They even had a small generator set up in the woods so that the lights could be lit and all the fun things could be seen.




This is Son leading them through the maze.  Look at the expressions on the little guys faces.  It was probably the eyeballs in a jar......

Here is the Hubs sitting in the Rhino with some of the kids eating chili and hot dogs.  There was a ton of food including the mice that Miss T and I made the day before.  More on that later.

There was face painting.

Lots of decorations.

A fire in the fire pit that the parents sat around while the kids were running, jumping, screaming, hollering, yelling, rolling on the ground, playing tag, you know, the things kids are supposed to be doing on Halloween.

Of course the obligatory cemetery.

There were different stations all along the route with goodies for the kids to pick from.  Lots of things hanging in the trees and tons of fake spider webs hung everywhere.  Like I said, they put a lot of work in it and they said the looks on the kids faces made it all worth while.  :o)


Miss T and I made the mice for the party, well in this case we called them rats.  You drain the cherries and put them on paper towels, take slivered almonds and pick out ears that are kind of the same size.  You melt your chocolate and dip the cherry then set the Hersey kiss up against it, it will stick to the chocolate and harden in the refrigerator.  Put the eyes on with a tube of blue frosting.  Thank you to Miss Pea for posting this recipe last year!! 

Remembering Bucky

It won't be long before Halloween will be here and the kids are getting really excited.  Just think, ingesting all of that sugar should keep them flying for a week or more!  Before my neighborhood had so many kids I used to make Halloween bags out of fabric each year and tie them with orange and black ribbon after filling them with various and sundry sweets.  I knew better then to put an apple in the bag as it would probably be used to throw at my house.  It was okay to put homemade things in too, that was before the idiots put razor blades and other trash in things.  Always someone out there to try to spoil things for everyone else.  Now I hand out candy bars.


It's been sunny but windy here to day.  I really bundled up when I took Little Bud out for a ride this afternoon. Of course we both had on our hunter orange just in case someone had crossed over onto my posted land.  The leaves were swirling around his feet as we cantered along, so pretty, I love fall!  We looked and looked for the albino deer that live out back but didn't see him this time.  Dad and I saw two deer this morning when we were walking but not the albino.


We came back and I did evening chores while Kipper was intently watching something in the bushes.  I looked and looked but couldn't see anything but he just kept staring.  I finally got him in his stall and I took the Rhino out to see what was out there.  We've had a bobcat around, we see his tracks quite often and my yard man saw him up close and personal one day when he was working out in the field.  I didn't find anything, whatever it was it must have gone off in the woods.


I wish you could see what I wear around the barn especially during hunting season.  My friend Ann and I have always said we bet we could win a make over on some television show if they saw the garbs we wear when at the barn.  It's pretty sad,  sure not like in our younger days when we wore nice riding pants and shirts and  our tack was clean and the horses had matching lead ropes and halters.  Times change and some things just aren't so important as they once were.  It's the memories we made over the last 20 or so years that are important now as Ann had to have her wonderful horse put down about three weeks ago.


Bucky was 32 years old and in great shape except for his breathing.  What we used to call the heaves they now call COPD or something of the sort.  He had been on medication for a number of years that helped but these things get to a point where it's just not fair to keep a horse going and he had gotten to that point.  Many times it's hard to do the right thing when you have had an animal for over 25 years, you don't want those fun times to stop, it's like the end of an era.  But Ann did the right thing and now Bucky is up in our little horse cemetery with Buddy and Skippy.




                           Ann and Bucky

We are determined to keep riding together like we have for all those years so Ann is riding Nick and I am riding Little Bud.  We will still do more walking and talking then racing and tearing.  We will still talk about books that we have read and compare notes.  We will now talk about our grandchildren as we both have them.  We will talk about lots of things that I won't put in here.....:o)   She has seen me take three bad falls over the years.  We have worried about our sons when they went away to college together.  We have indulged in our heart attack sandwiches (grilled cheese) and fries as we like to call them in the little diner down the road on occasion.  And we have laughed more then imaginable.  And cried.  Like we did three weeks ago when we had to say good bye to Bucky.  Like I am now.