try it again~

Well vacation got a little side tracked; but Dear Hubby is coming back to the house today to pick me up ... and I'm going to try it again.  We'll see how long I can stay away this time without some kind of emergency cropping up.  Boy, you sure never know what life it going to throw at you on a daily basis. 

I was going through some pics and have a few more to share.

Here's two bobcats that were feeding on a road kill deer.

Also a crows

picnic ~

 

I can't take credit for the next shots... they were from my B'inlaw ~ pretty cool though:

Well... wish me luck on getting a few days of R&R.  I have to get back into the woods and get some balsam, cedar and pine boughs cut for my Christmas decorating.  I want to get it now before the heavy snows set in.  I'm going all out this year and I'm thinking about making garland for both my decks and wreaths for the doors.  I'll post pics if I act on this ambitious feeling ~ because you know me... this too may pass. I might just have a plastic tree or worse yet... a picture sitting on my television set of one from the past. lol... That's what I always threaten my family that I'm going to do.

Until next time....
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel

surgery~

When you least expect it ... your whole day can be turned upside down.

I came home from the cabin the other day expecting to do some laundry and grocery shopping and instead ended up sitting bedside with my daughter for 2 days at the hospital. 

She ended up having 3 gallstones and her gallbladder removed.  She's came through surgery like a real trooper and is doing great.  Myself ... I'm drained.  I think I need her Vicodan more than she does.

It's off to a hot shower and LaLa Land for me.

Until next time...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel

back to reality - again~

Well it's back to reality again ~ but just for the night ... then I'm out of here again.
Dear Hubby still has some vacation time to burn; so we are spending most of our time further north of here, up by our cabin.  I came home today to catch up on some laundry, replenish some groceries and of course to get my fix.  My fix is this! The internet ... oh how I miss being online when I can't do it.  I've become an internet junkie.  But... I have to admit ~ staying at the cabin without any phone and sometimes without power is relaxing.  I've done more reading in the past week than I have in a month at home and I'm even crocheting a scarf.

We've been riding around on a lot of back roads ~ just checking things over... looking for boughs to cut, partridge to hunt, deer or moose signs and beaver dams to trap and photo ops for me.

When I say back roads ... I'm not just talking off the black top asphalt.  Here's what I've been looking at through the window:

Driving these old logging roads in the middle of nowhere land is what we've been doing all week ~ no plush resort with a white sand beach for us on our little vacation.  Sometimes when we're out in the woods walking around I often wonder how some of my 'city slicker' friends would manage a week with Slim and I cruising the terrain.

Here's another shot of the big boy coming through some brush ... lol

Notice his high rubber boots ... well sometimes he just has to get into the water to check things out. 

 

Here's a nice runway that the beaver have been using to cross a road... and where they are starting to build a dam to hold back the water to build a pond.  The owners of the property want Slim to trap the beaver off of it before they destroy their road.

This is the dam that they already have started ~ in a few days the beaver could have this place flooded over.

 

Here's a pic of another dam at another piece of property that the beaver started.  The second picture is only one days work.  Beaver can cause a LOT of damage to a property in a short amount of time.

 

When we came back to this place on the second day there were even some fish caught in a shallow pool... that we fished out and put back into the deeper water.

This is a beaver chewed tree:

 

 

a beaver house

a racoon

 

More dead leaves and moss shots ~ and even a few odd trees .. lol.  I know... I take pictures of the weirdest stuff. 

 

 

 

 

I wish these next photos would have turned out better.  There was a mother otter with three babies swimming in this pond.  They were moving so fast it was hard to focus on them; and it was getting dark and they wouldn't stick around long enough for me to get a good shot.  When we first came up by the pond we could see the water swirling around ~ so we knew there were some otter there playing.

They came out on the bank on the far side .... not a very good pic; but you can see two of them.

 I did a black and white to see if I could focus in on them a little better: 

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Well... I suppose I better get off of here and go get my laundry done.  I have a ton of emails to go through and I have to check out what the facebookies are up to.  I'm so addicted!  I'll be back next week sometime if sasquatch doesn't get me.

Until next time...

So it goes in my neck of the woods.

~mel