Tuesday, December 30, 2008

December 24, 2008

Not everyone gets a Jeep with bobble head hunters and a singing Buck tied to the hood. In fact the Jeep bounces while all the singing is going on. Thanks Bev......Thank You...Thank You...Thank You......Soooo Much.

December 25, 2008

Always happy, here is Theresa enjoying herself on Christmas evening after getting me to do all the things on her "to do list". (and believe me it was quite a list.....probably 3 toilet paper rolls long).

December 18, 2008

Dressing up is always part of dealing with snow storms. How else can one get people to think I am working when in fact I am just playing around on my tractor?

December 25, 2008

These are the ornament added this year.Katie sent them to us this Christmas.

December 25, 2008

The first thing thing to go up (AFTER THE MANGER SCENE OUT ON THE FRONT PORCH) was the Christmas tree. By the time Theresa got thru it had hundreds of the cutest ornaments you will ever see. Every year she has added a couple more she collected that year.

December 25, 2008

The second thing to go up was the lighted village that has been collected over the years. Htis is about half of it. It is really cute when it is all lit up with the lights off.

December 25, 2008

These are electric candles Theresa had in the windows of her home when she was a little girl. (She still acts like one at Christmas time when she gets into decorating).

December 25, 2008

The last thing we put up was this manger scene we brought from Cleveland last spring. It has been in Theresa's family for 50 years. It rode all the way in the back seat of our car.

December 18, 2008

This is how it looked everywhere.

December 18, 2008

Thanks to a good tractor, I plowed snow twice today.

December 18, 2008

How do you like this for the first snow storm of the 2008 Winter. It didn't get here until the 18th of December. Until then we had a very dry and warmer than usual fall and early part of winter

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

June 2006

And the Ranch House and the Saddle Room with the Workshop hiding behind both. Yep, what a scene I get every time I walk down the sidewalk from the garage to the house. Especially after a drive home from work. As I look around, I cannot believe that of all the places to love, there is not a better place to love than the Farm. And it is because the Farm always loves you back.

You see, I don't mind a bit driving 60,000 plus miles a year as long as I can come home to the Farm every night. My feelings are always the same. As soon as I get in the car and head home, my heart is always happy because I know what I will find at the end of the road.

June 2006

And by stepping just around the corner I can also see the cabin (with Dawson's "G" room upstairs) and the Wishing Well of course......and Oh, who can forget the swing that is just waiting for the grandkids to show up.

June 2006

Yep, and from the same sidewalk I can see Grandad's tropy, the Barn. It was made from the left overs of three old barns I found here in the county that I had to buy, tare down and haul home. Some of the materials also came from the old caved in barn that was here when we bought the place.

June 2006

And over my shoulder I can look down and see the beauty and feel the peace of the Farm.

June 2006

From the sidewalk I can see all kinds of things to love.......The flower beds, the big front porch and Mom's birdhouse to top it off.

June 2006

There just aint nothing like coming home and nothing like seeing the sidewalk leading to the kitchen door when I have let down the garage door and headed through the garage door. You just feel so happy.

June 2006

Life is so simple here. There are always things to be done but none have a time schedule. Here at the Farm, love is everywhere....you can just feel it.

June 2006

Of all the places to love, the place I love is here at the Farm. With the animals that love us and depend on us, with the birds that stop by the bird feeders, and with friends that look out for us all the time and we for them, how much better could life be?

February 2007

While we were in Florida, we made a quick trip over to the Epcot Center and spent the evening. It was pretty spectacular but really crowded. It took us about an hour to get from the parking lot to the entrance and about an hour to get back to the car. But all in all it was fun....but once is enough.

February 2007

This is the little sea-side market by Port Richie.
It was quite a quaint place for an afternoon visit. We didn't buy anything but we really ate a good meal at a greek Restaurant

February 2007

This is the two trouble makers in Florida, Theresa and Tamara. We went down to a little town with a bunch of greek restaurants and really food. They had little markets with sponges and all kinds of shells etc. It was by Port Richie which is just north of Tampa.