Now that Poppy has retired from his full time job, and working part time, and off every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, well, I am finding less time to blog, but more time to get some big jobs done around the house.
Jobs like cleaning out the shop! What a mess, and you should have seen it last week! Poppy said to me, "I wish you would start cleaning out the shop, maybe that would get me in the mood to get in there and clean too". So, after squeezing my way through the shop door, I carried out five big barrel deer feeders and three deer tree stands and made room for them under the shed...where those things should have been stored in the first place! Now we can at least walk in the shop! It worked! When Friday got here, Poppy could hardly wait to get started.
That's Dale Earnhardt, Jr. standing in front of a dozen more Nascar driver stand-ups. There must be ten or more large chests of Nascar, along with baseball and basketball collectibles packed away in here that Poppy is putting up for sale, plus we are planning to have a big yard sale, soon!
a tangled mess of fishing rods,
but we are getting there...
Okay, I'm sure you have seen enough shop pictures, but one more...
Remember Poppy's brother Joe who passed away about three years ago? Joe was a carpet designer. A few years before Joe died, he designed and made this rug using a picture he had drawn himself of a buffalo in snow. He gave the rug to Poppy for Christmas that year.
Okay, I will be surprised if you are still reading. :) Maybe my next post will be beautiful! Time to get busy.
One more thing...thank you for the comments about taking osteoporosis bone building medications. I have decided to stay away from them all, at least for now. Once that injection is in my body, there is no changing my mind. I'm taking vitamin D3 and Calcium Citrate with magnesium, drinking whole milk, and trying to eat healthy. :)
Hope to be back here soon.
Love,
Henny
The memorial service for Joe yesterday was very special. Joe would have been proud, to say the least! Joe lived in a rustic, cabin type home surrounded by 3 or 4 huge oak trees and situated on 50+ acres of land which join a wide, rocky, beautiful river.
Joe was a people person for sure! Once a year he held what he called "Riverfest". All the family, and all of Joe's friends from far and wide were invited. His friends brought their friends! There was plenty of food, drinks, and live music. All were welcome to stay overnight as long as you brought a camper, tent, or a plain old sleeping bag, or didn't mind pulling two chairs together!!
The memorial service was like a little Riverfest only more melancholy. It started yesterday afternoon at 4:00. A couple played the guitar and sang hymns, and later in the evening played and sang some other old favorites! Everyone talked and shared stories about their special times with Joe. There were groups constantly going to and coming from the river, which is about a half mile walk from the house. Poppy managed to slip away and walk alone to the river. He stopped at some of the hunting spots he and Joe had shared, as recently as two weeks ago! It was a special day!
Joe will be missed by all of us!!!
Love,
Henny Penny
Joe and his granddaughter
We got the saddest of news yesterday. Poppy's brother Joe passed away. In two of my latest posts, I talked about what good hunting buddies the two of them were.... Joe was not only Poppy's brother, but was his closest and dearest friend. Joe was 62, much too young to leave us.
Hope to be back soon.
Love,
Henny Penny
With all the deer talk in the house since last Saturday, dear friends, I've been hard pressed to even "think" about something to post! I've been on the back of the 4-wheeler with Poppy, a feeder, 2 fifty pounds bags of corn, and a camera as we made our way through the woods to one of his hunting spots. I was needed to help hold the big barrel feeder while Poppy strapped it to the tree. However, at 8:00 this morning I watched as Poppy pulled out of the driveway and headed south to his brother Joe's place, two hours away in Robbins...yes, Robbins, my most favorite small town in America!! Actually, Joe lives more north of Robbins, near High Falls, than where I grew up in down town Robbins. Joe has a nice country place on the river...lots of good hunting there. Poppy and Joe have been hunting buddies since way back in the early 1960's...
That's Joe on the left and Poppy on the right in their Jungle Jim outfits! Sorry about the picture quality..I still only know how to download a picture!! :)
I hardly know what to do first this morning...and here I sit at the computer!! The plants in the garden need dusting. I have already seen a tiny black worm on a collard leaf...the same kind of worm that totally ate the kale and cabbage plants last spring.
Poppy plans to stay overnight at his brother's place, so I am in charge here today! :) There is nothing cooking for supper tonight, nor will there be...let me tell you!!! Pizza and ice cream sounds good to me!!! Late tonight when the sky is black and the only sounds I hear are the crickets, frogs, or an old barn owl, way out here in the woods alone, I may not want to be in charge any longer!!!
Last night while out closing the chicken house door I spotted this very bright sliver of the moon through the trees...
An old birdhouse built by Poppy several years ago...which houses more spiders than birds now, looked lonely in the darkness...
There something fun about taking pictures out in the dark.
A quick update on Fiona. Now, Fiona may be a male but I simply cannot call him Theodore, or Fling Fling, so his name will remain "Fiona Ling Ling". Anyway, he has grown very large and beautiful and waddles right up to my feet. He likes his Old Roy dog food dropped into this pan of water...
This is not much of a post so thank you have stayed long enough to read this. :) Hope to be back soon.
Love,
Henny Penny
Jobs like cleaning out the shop! What a mess, and you should have seen it last week! Poppy said to me, "I wish you would start cleaning out the shop, maybe that would get me in the mood to get in there and clean too". So, after squeezing my way through the shop door, I carried out five big barrel deer feeders and three deer tree stands and made room for them under the shed...where those things should have been stored in the first place! Now we can at least walk in the shop! It worked! When Friday got here, Poppy could hardly wait to get started.
That's Dale Earnhardt, Jr. standing in front of a dozen more Nascar driver stand-ups. There must be ten or more large chests of Nascar, along with baseball and basketball collectibles packed away in here that Poppy is putting up for sale, plus we are planning to have a big yard sale, soon!
a tangled mess of fishing rods,
Okay, I'm sure you have seen enough shop pictures, but one more...
Remember Poppy's brother Joe who passed away about three years ago? Joe was a carpet designer. A few years before Joe died, he designed and made this rug using a picture he had drawn himself of a buffalo in snow. He gave the rug to Poppy for Christmas that year. 
