Did a little decorating today...

Friends, I didn't mean to do a Thanksgiving post and then disappear. What happened was, I found the yard rake leaning against an oak tree, picked it up, and have been gone for seven days. Well, that's just about right.

Reminds me of a story Daddy used to tell us about my uncle Lloyd. There were seven boys and two girls in Daddy's family. There were railroad tracks not far from their farm. Daddy said all the boys would be out working in the field when a train whistle would blow, off in the distance. Uncle Lloyd would drop his hoe and take off running, catch the train, and be gone for weeks at a time.

Anyhow, today I'm trying to put up a few Christmas decorations...BUT! this has been a week of, everything I do or touch looks worse than it did before. I have struggled with the Christmas village on the mantle...

Just couldn't get it to look right. The snowy forest scene was too small and needed something! Finally, a brain storm! Using feed bags, (what ever did I do before we had feed bags) I cut out six fir trees...

painted them green...added a little white paint for snow...then painted a star for the top of each one. Not even sure now if I like it. Afraid it looks like something out of a coloring book for a seven year old??? Oh well. :(

and that garland around the fireplace! Got the ladder out again and making sure this year, to hang the center of the garland on the nail in the center of the fireplace, whew! which I did. Got it all hung and realized the plug for the drop cord needed to be on the right side...I had it on the left side. I had just put the ladder up! Been like that all day! 

I do like the little village; the houses and the people, especially in front of the cold snowy forest...

Found the Carolers last year at a thrift store. Seems like every year I find something new to add to the village and all of it's from a thrift store. 

 another group of carolers

and I'm not quite done with the tree yet...

So that's it, so far.

Oh, Poppy finally killed a deer; a buck. A big buck...eight point buck with two more small points. The taxidermist said if the small points are large enough to hang a ring on, then they would count as two more points...which would make it a ten point buck. Poppy sure was tickled. He is having it mounted...you know we need one deer head in the living room :( 

Poppy had the deer processed and gave the meat to three friends.

Well, this post was supposed to be about the new shower curtain but I guess that can wait until next time.


Got this picture of Poppy and Smokey this evening...

It's usually Dumperoo curled up in Poppy's lap.

Love,
Henny

Poppy and the old GRAVEYARD

Got the "to do list" rewritten neat and orderly. It's 7:30 a.m. Poppy is at work. I've made the bed, put the dishes away, cleaned two litter boxes, swept the kitchen and laundry room and, as only a Virgo would understand, made sure the corners and edges are even on every folded and stacked item, visible in the house! It's a morning ritual! No uneven towels hanging on racks around here! There may dust on the cabinets but all my ducks are in a row!

Let's see, 'Dancing with the Stars' was on last night. Action that keeps these two entertained.

Poppy carried the camera with him turkey hunting last Saturday . 

Maybe half a mile from our house, deep in the woods, there is an old graveyard with tombstones dating from the 1700's. 

Hard to read now, but looks like 1886 and 1900 on this one. One of the stones here says the Reverend Amos Jones.

Poppy passes this old graveyard going to an open field to hunt.

Ivy covers most of the graves and stones.

If you walked far enough through these woods, you would come out at the back of a little white church called Jones' Chapel. I've always figured the Jones' buried here are some of the same set. It is sad to think of the people buried in these old graves in these woods.

Back to reality and my 'to do list'...next is cranking up the mower and mowing from the back of the house down to the pond and behind the old dog lots...then do a little gardening. That should pretty much do me in!

Thank you for visiting. Hope to be back soon.

Love,
Henny