It's Been a BUSY Summer!

Peaches from our tree!

A sunflower in our garden...

Anna brought a praying mantis egg case from our old house, and let it hatch in her room! A couple hundred teensy-tiny baby praying mantises are VERY difficult to catch! We had SO SO many praying mantises around our house this year!

I suppose either the praying mantises or all the grasshoppers and crickets that were already here are what the turkeys came for! I enjoyed seeing the turkeys when they came out of the long grass. We let the hill grow up most of the summer, so I could just see the tops of their heads most of the time. :) (Click for larger, to be able to see the turkeys better.)

Well, let's see....since the last post we've finished *most* of the work on the house that needed to be done. The library shelves are the only major inside work that isn't finished, and I'm going to try to have them done by Thanksgiving.

The new roof if on...and looks wonderful!...and the carport has a new roof, the new heat pump is in, too.

We keep finding *little* things that need to be re-done....such is the joy of home ownership! :)

My plants all survived the moving! Even the hibiscus and lilac bush, which were the two I felt were most likely to die. My herb garden is doing even better than it did at the old house!

I don't know if the plum tree survived the summer....I wasn't too good about carrying water to it like I should have been. :( It's limbs are still red, though, so I'm taking that as a good sign, and hoping it will be happier now that cool weather is come. The little apple tree didn't make it.....*really* shouldn't have tried to move it bare-rooted. Live and learn.....

I found some daylilies at a library sale last weekend and expanded the bed that was already here a bit. Next spring I'll divide the ones that are here, and expand more, but there are asters growing there that I don't want to disturb right now. The bees are enjoying them. :)

The girls are planning on lots of Halloween decorations......I'm looking forward to Christmas decorating! We have a perfect place for the tree....never have had much room for the tree before. :)

VERY much enjoying our house!