Okay so it has been 5 months since I posted on my blog.  How can the time go past so fast?  Geeze it also means I am 5 months older.  YUK!
    During November and December we had our first Open House  and thanks to all my wonderful customers/friends it was awesome and so much fun for Lyle and I.  January was pretty well used up with vet visits--however we think we have a handle on that now too.
All things considered it has been a good winter and Spring is just around the corner.  There aren't any pretty flowers for us to see right now so I thought would give you some on my blog.  They bring a smile to my face because I know that we will be seeing these again this spring and summer. 
  I hope you enjoy them and know that the flowers are just waiting to bloom again.

We have also been getting ready for our Spring Open House, and I will be sending out flyers in just a little while.

 

 

  

Autumn Blessings

  I know many of you love this beautiful time of year as much as I do,
and although it has been a busy time for us here at Cedar Home, we have taken time to enjoy the joys of Autumn too.
  Since our Fall Open house last month, Lyle and I have transplanted 68 more white pine trees from the lot in Two Rivers.  They are only about 3 feet tall and we planted all of them in front between the house and the road.
   We have filled our wood shed.  It holds about four and one half cords of wood, and this is the wood we will use to heat Cedar Home this winter.  The wood shed is a blessing because it keeps the wood we burn dry all winter long.  (Really can't see anything good about a smokey fire)  LOL
   Those poor prairie women, cooking over a smoking fire because their chimneys did not draft properly.  I can not even imagine what that was like for them.
 We have been cutting low branches off the box elder trees in the back yard and and having awesome bonfires in the early evenings.

This to me is what Autumn is all about, the beautiful colors, bonfires, and taking walks through fallen leaves.  Actually for me it is more like finding piles of leaves and plunging through them.  LOL  Guess I will never be a real grown up.   Here are some pictures we have taken from Cedar Home.

The trees are even more colorful now than when these pictures were taken.

        We left late one morning and just took are ride up to Egg Harbor and Fish Creek and I was able to take some nice pictures and we both just needed to relax a bit.  It was such a beautiful day and I so enjoy doing these things with Hubby.

 

 

I home you have enjoyed traveling this country road with me as much as I have enjoyed sharing it with you. 
    I will be seeing some of you at our Holiday Open House this November, and I know it will be like a gathering of old friends again just like our Fall Open House was.  I can not thank you enough for loving Cedar Home as much as I do, and for allowing me to continue doing what I so love to do.
Stay well and happy until I see you again.
Hugs Carol



                                       
                          

Hi Everyone

I cannot believe the last time I posted was in June. I am hanging my head in shame, and really don't know where the summer has gone.
There have been a lot on things changing here--Colin and Katherine have purchased a home in Two Rivers which means I will not be putting up my little building but instead doing things as we did in the past in Two Rivers. Lyle is more comfortable with this idea instead of trying to heat and cool a little out building and I am getting used to the idea although I did love the design (thank you Connie).
     I have actually succeded in growing Indian Corn this year and gourds and have been busy the last week or so in decorating the front porch.  Gosh!  Lyle and I spend a lot of time out there.  LOL  Maybe that is where the summer has gone.
Anyway I have taken a few pics of what we have done to decorate that porch.

You all remember this guy,  well now we are making him and he will sell for $65 which is a wonderful price co
nsidering what I had to charge for him when I was ordering him in from the east coast.

The neighbor next door gave me to bales of bedding that they use for their horses.  Hey the cut down 3 of our acres and use it for their horses feed and some for bedding.  They use this old Hay Rake and it is just so much fun watching this done with old equipment. 

And there went some more of the summer.  LOL  The Hay Rake is owned by a neighbor down the road a little bit from us and they were nice enough to give us the corn stalks for the front porch.  We are getting to know the neighbors out here and everyone is willing to help each other out.  Today Lyle was over at the Lake helping the new people move there trailer a few feet as they had no trailer hitch and couldn't move it themselves.  It is a nice way to live.

Here is my old rusting milk can that I just added sticks and berries and a few pieces of corn stalks to.  A little bit messy but pretty too, anyway you all know I can't do that formal look.

I love this wonderful large bird feeder.  We have it out in the front garden and have seen so many new birds come to it this year.  And wasn't it nice of those birds to plant the sunflower seeds so perfectly to accent the feeder?
    Well I wanted to give you a sneak peek as to what has been happening around my prim home and hope to see you all this coming weekend.  The response to the email and post cards has been wonderful so I am hoping to see many of you.
Stay well and Happy
Hugs
Carol

 

Another first for me!  Lyle and I had the boys (Petie and Simon) out for a walk yesterday and by the side of the road we stumbled across this turtle.

She was in the process of laying her eggs and when we saw her she already had laid 3 eggs in this nest (I guess that's what you call it).   She digs a hole lays the eggs and then covers it up again.  When the eggs hatch the babies will dig their way out and then they are on their own.  I was surprised that the eggs were the size of Robins eggs.  In my whole life I had never seen this before and I admit I was pretty excited.  Okay!  So I am impressed with little things.  But you can read about this or see it on TV, but to actually see it in nature is something special that I will always treasure.
     Well stay happy and I am sending Hugs until my next nature episode. LOL