Stuff

Here I have been hanging around the house all day. Piddling around, doing this and that and almost forgot to post my daily picture. Shame on me.
So here are some cabbage and kale I am going to put in my garden 'bed' when the impatiens are done and they are. They got a touch of frost the other night and are turning black. So this weekend I will be doing that then I will show you a pic. Tomorrow is no school also so I will have Brett and Bradley and Kylee will be here too.
I posted a picture of cucumbers from the valley. They are dumping them and I have to find out why. I know they always plant extra to fill their quotas. But couldn't they go to schools, stores, food banks or something. I took some. Just call me a gleaner. Maybe they had poison on them accidentally---well I didn't get sick---so maybe not.
I tried to post this a while ago and then the power went out so Kylee and I went into Burlington to have some dinner and now it is 8:30 so I am finally going to get this going. I don't know why the power went out but it always does for no reason anyway.

What's happening to Stanwood?

Progress! I guess we cannot stop it even if we tried. I don't live in Stanwood proper, I live a bit out of town up in the woods (sorta). But look what is happening to this delightful little town. And this is right in town too. I showed you pictures of downtown Stanwood before with it's brick lined street--country yet all the up to date stores.

Cool sunrise

Cool in the meaning beautiful. It actually is quite warm for a morning. It is 58--yesterday at this time it was 40.
I too the first picture at 6:50 Am today when I took Kylee to her bus and then the next is at 7:15. Beautiful!! In other words COOL!!

Fall Pics

This is the view south from the house. A stormy afternoon. Fall weather for sure.
Our tree forest is of course mostly conifers, doug fir, cedar and like that, any alder or trash wood is always logged off, but all around the edges is whatever grows--alder, vine maples and the like. Those are the ones that turn the great color.

Cheri and Cameron

My daughter and her bunch, Cameron and Michael were here for the week-end. they live on the ranch in Ritzville, WA. Saturday we took Michael up to Bellingham for his drivers test. He passed said his proud grandmother (me). We ate lunch. We came back home and then went to the care center to see Dave. Of course we had to go out to dinner and then back home where I put them all to work. Cameron installed my new hot fence for the pastures and Mike cleaned up stuff around the outside of the house. The wind roared last night--huge gusts-no power outages--not yet anyway. Today Cameron and Mike raked up old leaves and the wheelbarrow that tipped over and blew stuff everywhere and then it was time for them to head home. It is about a 4-5 hour drive depending how fast you go. Friday the calves were trucked out so now they will push cows to different pastures and other ranch stuff.
It was fun having them here.
Oh the picture of Cheri and Cameron was taken last month when they went to Texas to pick up a car and got to drive back and they did all the tourists thing until they got to Utah and decided they wanted to GO HOME. The pic is at the Grand Canyon. Mike of course had to stay home and go to school. MB

Let sleeping dogs lie

little frog dog

Goodbye Clinton

I went to see my Mother today and took the Ferry home. So it leaves from the tiny town of Clinton. So here's goodbye to Clinton.
Also here is a picture of my Fothergilla Gardenii. Really a great shrub. this is the dwarf variety al though it can get tall. It is supposed to be 3x3. It has beautiful white spire flowers (they look like fuzzy candles) in the Spring and in the fall the leaves turn yellow, orange and scarlet, sometime all at once.