Is Autumn here yet?

We have been dealing with unusually warm temps for this time of year up into the high 80's...We finally got some rain yesterday and temps are a little cooler but still seems so dry out...We won't have good fall colors this year due to the dry warm weather we have had..so there are already tons of leaves that have fallen. 

We have been fighting a buck deer lately. This past summer it was squirrels eating our fruit but now this buck is tearing up our smaller fruit trees with his horns..it is what you call "hooking"..they mark their territory by doing this. Hubby is a big hunter so imagine he will be in our freezer when hunting season opens..But this is what some of the trees look like. 

We have put stakes up around them to deter the buck from hooking and killing our trees...we did lose one smaller tree from his hooking.

And since the persimmons have pretty well fallen off the tree now, we took down the carpet tack strips and will reuse them on the fruit trees this next spring to deter the squirrels...it helped on the persimmon tree so know it will work on the other trees as well.

My sister came out and stayed a couple of nights a few weeks ago. We took a trip down memory lane and took a drive over to some places we camped at when we were kids..

Here is the Cossatot River.

We hiked around here for awhile and then drove over to Shady Lake. There we spent about an hour talking to the camp ground supervisor.

Then drove to Bards Springs. They still have the old lean-to camp sheds...didn't take photos there and then since Camp Albert Pike is still closed we didn't stop there as well. I hate that the Albert Pike is closed but it had gotten so overrun with people and ATV's that it was awful..now it is reverting back to the natural state and so lovely. There were some back packers and horse trail riders so it is getting some use...just no bathroom upkeeps.

Finished up the scrappy 9-patch quilt top and lady in our church quilted it for me but I have to bind it. Been doing some redwork baby quilt blocks for some baby quilts. Have some aprons to finish for Christmas gifts and also some ceramics to paint for the DGD's boyfriend's Christmas...and then she has given me 4 dolls to dress. 2 of the dolls I have to make bodies for...Also wanting to start a new hooked rug. Staying busy.

And I am ending this as usual..

Witticisms

Welcome to Vintage Spice Twice...sorry for the inconvenience of having to swap sites. I just could not post photos to wordpress any longer. Glad you could join me here. 

Here are a few witticisms I've collected...

And as always....

new try

I haven't posted here in over a year due to problems trying to upload photos. So will try again and see if it works.

Spring is here. We have had 2 days of 80F temps. All our fruit trees are in full bloom.

Our hawks have returned and think Mrs. Hawk is sitting eggs. I haven't been able to get a photo of her yet.

The trees are putting out leaves. We had to replant our pea patch as we had so much rain lately that they either rotted or washed away. The rains thinned our lettuce as well.

 

We took a drive between rains and got a good shot of a spotted eagle. He looked drowned.

The rivers and creeks are back down in their banks. We were really fortunate and did not get the flooding that others did. We had a tornado to touch down on a lake near us. Noone hurt.

 

 

Due to so many problems uploading photos here, I've decided to change to Wordpress. Here is the new blog site.
https://vintagespicetwice.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/hello-world/

https://vintagespicetwice.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/hello-world/

switching to different blog

I have had so many problems with blogger that I've decided to just change blog servers. I will post new addy here when I change.

still problems with posting photos????

I now have windows 10 and wondering if this is the problem with uploading photos here? Going to try again.

trouble posting

Seems I have been having trouble posting here. I will come back when blogger has fixed itself.