more from the other day

we were very busy today...........walked the property........saw some cool stuff..........but am posting another video from baseball because haven't downloaded pics from today!!!



BTW......did you play the short video from last post???? it's my favorite ;)

baseball with unca T

briefly

oops! no net!


L B is flying! over the house!



wet fun!

did you really think i wouldn't share???? !

i got.....

the kids....

i've got the kids!!!

they're mine, they're mine.....

i will not share............ppbbbbttttt!!

nahhhh, naahhhh, ha!

old-new Socks!

new socks! current Sockamania pattern


the happy feet yarn purchased after moving here ~ so appropriate ~~ for the first pair to be started in new home :)


old socks! ~~ welp not really ~~ these were started in the old home


finished in the new home!!! see all the hearts??

relax-a-cat ~~~ get one for yourself!!

and more....

5th grade!

someone picked great seats! got to be very close

waiting in line......

yippee!!!

sorry!! we got lots of pics in my 2 days there this past week!!

p.s. HAPPY BIRTHDAY...... S !!!!!!!

more 5th grade!

they had a speaker for graduation............

if you EVER get a chance to hear this man speak..........GO!

he is...................amazing...........truly..................amazing!

it's over!!!

bye! bye!............5th grade!

hello!......................middle school!

wahhhh....she's getting sooooo grown up :(

excitement abounds!

thursday was fun??


it was foggy (clouds on the mountain!) in the morning, rained a little bit....husbeast(ha!) couldn't fly.....


there was lots to do around here ~~ still working on the closet shelves and emptying packed stuff...


#3 son and i decided to go down and get the mail and some spicy chicken patties!! as we were leaving it was thundering off in the distance.....i said it's gonna rain, should we go anyway? he wanted to get some applications out so we went...


it poured......man................ it poured!!




it was so cool :)


we did/got all that we'd planned and headed back ~~ at the entrance to the long trek up to our long driveway ~ a nice black truck stops and says "you aren't gonna make it." uhhhh what? "water is rushing over the 2nd culvert, you're not gonna make it up, everyone's turning around"


ok, so we turn around, call husbeast(ha!) and #2 son to let them know and head to the country store (oh but we ended up at Burger *ing)


the two at the house go out and wander our driveway and the road up to it and find a tree blocking one way ~ of course it's the easy way ~~ of course the vertical road is fine (i hate the vertical road! my car is a 5 speed and it rolls backwards ~ ya'all don't know my fear of rolling backwards do you?)


but all that doesn't matter cuz back at the bottom of the mountain ~ where we were ~ the road is washed away....the cute little 'crick' (aka creek) is a roaring flowing monster!


the poor cow and horse pastures are filled and the houses and cars are standing in some fast moving muddy water!


OOPSIE!


by now it's about 7pm and i really don't want to head up the mountain in the dark...we stop to get a newspaper and i ask the lady "so when it rains and such like this how long does it take for the water to clear?" she says "oh, a couple days" uhhhhh what? but her husband (off to the side) shakes his head NO ~ i'm going with his answer!



at some point i've told #3 that if it was cold ~ all this would be snow! ~ which earned me this incredulous LOOK that i cannot describe ;) heh!


at 8pm husbeast(ha!) calls ~gotta love cell phones!~ he's says a neighbor tells him a couple hours....


at 8:26pm ~~ i've HAD it, i tell #3 we are going home! we get back to the entrance ~ a fair amount of the flooding of the road is gone ~ but there are big trucks and bulldozers there with a sign that says "road closed, high water"


but in front of us is another car - obviously a neighbor - and when the one truck leaves - he pulls around the sign and starts up the road ---- me too! me too!!


hey....BTW.... i found out what a culvert was!!!


it's not too bad, most of the water is gone, then at the last point before our turn up the vertical road......a nice (aka huge) flow of 'crick' across the road ~ the guy in front of me has stopped, we do too, he and #3 son light up and we all stand talking ~~ do we try it?? we've got cars not trucks



#3 is talking to husbeast(ha!) and i tell him.....we'll just get a hotel room for the night ~ but neither of us wants to....


another neighbor comes up behind and he's got a little niss*n truck ~ he decides to go and we watch ~ good thing too ~ gave us where the lowest point was and how fast to go thru!


the guy with us says "i don't know"



i tell #3 son "come on, i'm doing it" AND i swear, i swear, i swear ~~ the guy with us went ONLY because a GIRL was going to ~~ i swear!

plus i was wearing my new, cool, sparkly sketchers!

i've noticed things like that out here.....guys have issues with girls......being knowledgeable, thinking persons.........take the trash man for example.....only gave me barest of info.......then bonded totally when husbeast(ha!) and sons took trash......what a doofus!


oh yeah, i digress.......

we made it across the water and up to the vertical road, husbeast(ha!) and #2 were on their way down in the truck to get us ~ but it was unnecessary ~ never ever underestimate the power of a woman who wants to go home!

p.s. friday the cat (yep! the cat) found our basement flooded ~ spent the day unpacking and trying to save stuff!

what has to GO!!

that hog pen ~ ewww! & you know under all that hay left...there are buggies and mice and and and.....yuck!

all the FORTS! they aren't stable and husbeast (ha!) has promised a FORT for my sweeties

assorted trash ~~ weird trash ~~ around the entrance to the woods.....by weird i mean they tried to burn a fiberglass boat, there are metal frames all over and other "burn" areas whatsupwiththat???

oh oh oh...... i finally SAW a deer!! have seen many tracks..... then the same day saw 3 deer at different times! YAY!! and the 2 wild turkeys came back!

found!

current socks!!! they need heels & legs!


the LYS !!!! this is my first purchase ~~ happy feet sock yarn, FROGGY project bag with project included!! a hat pattern & yarn & accessories

was a small little shop tucked in the corner of an older "shopping center"

coming home

entrance


starting down first hill



next hill




one more?? !





there it is !!

things....

cool things.....

our driveway is 2/10ths of a mile long.....so......you can be sure that car you hear is coming to you!

it's a great rollercoaster driveway ~~ C D B raises his arms and says "yee HAW" when his dad drives down it! here are his frog "friends"

the view is spectacular (IMHO) !!

i've seen 2 wild turkeys roaming the property (it's 20+ acres) and i'm told you see the occasional bear, mountain lion and lots of deer ~~ up the mountain in back

we border the Jefferson National Forest ~ can be sure not too much development will occur

we have 6 forts here (noooooooooo they are NOT deer blinds.....they are forts)


weird things............

there's a hog pen (the former owner told me "to get yourself a couple hogs" - uhhh no thanks! ~ the guy at the turn to our place has a HUGE hog - i'll visit it!)

they'd planned to be buried here!! so there is an area mapped and fenced for a cemetery ~ must GO! ~~ way! way! way!.... too creepy! (yep...i know i'm in the country now)

lots of trash/junk outlying the 4 acres (or so) that are surrounding the home ~ has to go

we have to take our trash/recycle in to town and the guy there is.....oh....maybe the word "odd" works! there are alot of rules and they don't recycle half the stuff that we are used to ~ he says "just throw that away".....

all in all.......

it's been pretty fun!
it's been an adventure
it's been a learning experience


sad things.....

I MISS MY CUTIE PIES

I WANT TO SEE THEM EVERYDAY (hurry up and move here ~ there's one for sale nearby!)

Have a fabulous weekend! ~~ i'll be carpeting!! or at least pretending to!

p.s i was able to knit 4 rounds on a sock before husbeast (ha!) came looking for me!

craziness!

it's nice to have internet back??? if you can call it internet........UPS could not find us so we had to go an hour to their place and pick up the DSL package from the phone company......really, they wanted us to go online to fix the issue with the address--- sorry but online is hard when you don't have the proper stuff to do it!!! but we were told now that they know how to get here....next time will deliver......

we did have to get a PO box........the keys wouldn't work.....the box had never been rented....they had to change the locks.......took a couple days!!! they in the meantime "returned to sender" ALL our mail...........

no reception on this mountain.....had to get dish tv! but the cells work

we are still unemployed!! ~~~ there are 3 guys here and hey i'm not sure but ~~ i think i don't need to work?

the husbeast (ha!) is driving us crazy..............we have now been here exactly 7 days.........we are painting and re-carpeting.......none of the closests had shelves or places to hang clothes.......there is no linen closet...........the absolutely BEAUTIFUL surroundings make up for it!

i've taken pics but the camera cord has mysteriously relocated itself...........we're all sure it's here?

i found my beer at a food li*n about 20min away..........my butt drove there today!

ack!

we're here.....we've been here.....finally got internet, phone. etc........they don't sell my beer!!..........more later!