here are some fall photos......from a week or so ago.......our leaves are almost all down by now....

we took a hike near the house to the top of the world......which, by the way, happens to be a blueberry fields with an old stone house foundation in the middle of it.

first a drive down a long, long, old dirt road

we passed a couple of 4x4 trucks in our toyota corolla with 5 passengers.....

then a walk down a long hill and up another one

the top of the world with a guy sitting on a rock....jeff, actually

last photo of the tree in the yard before it lost all its leaves

old foundation, called the stone house in local legend.....seems to be a party spot judging by the amount of broken glass on the ground.

we also recently went to baxter state park and we saw moose for the first time

we had a nice picnic even tho it was a little chilly

 we is reallllly happpppy!

life on the wink is goooood.

cutting wood for next winter.  This winters wood--about 3 cords is in the shed all split and dry.  we've already had a couple fires in the stove.

molly is a sun worshipper

my garden was better than i expected.  we had an overly rainy and cold spring and early summer, and now a long dry spell, and its getting cold now.  It will be a few years before my soil is built up some with compost.  i've also been working a lot more and not having too much time to care about it.

green bell peppers give me fits.  i finally harvested one small one on sept 16

jeff found a surprise in a piece of firewood

a snake shed his skin here

this is the perfect time of year for a walk in the wildlands.

time for an update  wish i had more time but i don't  working a full week now at least for the summer, maybe this fall a permanent full time position will become available. 

a few photos

our oldest, Jeff jr. is finally, i mean, now engaged.  We love sarah and can't wait until both jeff and ben are married and meghan and sarah are officially part of the family.

my awesome garden as seen from the roof of the garage.  it has been a cold and wet summer so far here in maine.  since it is already the middle of july, i now see no hope for a regular summer.  it hasn't even gotten out of the 70's here yet and the nights have sometimes been in the 40's.  as i speak it is another foggy day.

however we have had lots of lettuce, that is what is covered in the first bed.  haha, we made a sunshade for the letttuce!!!! the second bed has brocolli which i just ate some this week, eggplant, which just began to blossom, cucumbers which are just beginning to touch the trellis, and green beans which are also still very small, it goes on to tomatoes, peppers and in the other tunnel, greens.  everything is doing just ok.  the slugs have been a bit of a problem, but not too bad. 

in case anyone that doesn't know about my garden is reading this the rectangle beds are all raised cement block capped with patio blocks.  then we used rocks, which we have an unending supply of, to edge the outside beds and the triangle beds are basically made from the hitches left from when the house was brought in and 2x10s. the outhouse is my garden shed that jeff jr. built and jeff sr. finished off.

since i take all of the pictures this is the only picture i could  find that was recently taken of me.

the other day jeff and i went hiking up bald mnt. and tried to fly paper airplanes off.  it sound crazy, but it was fun.  i think we need grandchildren really bad.

this is a view from bald mnt, which is a mile or so from home.  it was a sunny, cloudy day, kind of dull looking.

So this has been our summer so far.  jeff has gotten lots of stuff done around the place, plus he's become a wicked good house-husband!!!!! I've been working in the bakery and complaining, it's been cold and rainy, and i'm almost looking forward to winter so i have an excuse to start up the woodstove.

Spring is finally here

Pictures from a walk through a blueberry field

Working today and feeling a little aggravated..... don't want to feel aggravated.

Yesterday I was off.  We had a lot of errands to run, but after lunch we went for a hike out back on the logging roads.  It was an antler hunt, but we can back empty handed.  This year we haven't found any.  However it was a beautiful afternoon and we had a great hike.

Jeff crossing the creek on bridge

the creek

Jeff says we should pan for gold

the woods are beautiful this time of year--no bugs

camp sign down the road

I was aggravated this morning because I got less hours next week

Maybe I'll just spend the extra hours in the woods.....................................................................................