Guess what we're up to.

It's that time of year again and the logs are here. On this early foggy morning they are waiting! The older I get the less I like winter and although I do love the warm cozy feeling wood heat offers, I would just as soon have winter over with the day after Christmas. Our son cuts all the logs into about 18" lengths, and our daughter-in-law splits a good deal of it by hand with a huge maul. She likes to do this for exercise and will be doing the same for her parents, and for themselves too. As soon as all the wood is cut we will then begin using our wood splitter.

This is some of the wood she has split. Before we quit for the day, the pile had doubled. Tomorrow Gary and I will start stacking it in the woodshed.

Friday we took a ride to check on a flock of Mute Swans about 30 miles from here on the Allegheny River. We stopped at Wendy's for lunch, and these ducks were in the parking lot begging for a treat. A duckling was standing right outside the door to the restaurant looking in through the glass, but I didn't have my camera with me.! It would have made such a cool picture.

The Swans are alive and doing well. Earlier in the Spring I posted some pictures when the
Cygnets were very small.

I had a bag of Cherrios in the van and coaxed them over to the river bank.

That's the babies in the middle between Mom and Dad, and in my header today too.

With all the early morning fog, it's easy to find lots of spider webs.

Have a wonderful rest of the week-end.

This is what has been going on all week. This shows the inside of the woodshed about 1/3 rd full. This is the last pile we split out in the back yard.

Another pile waiting to be stacked.

This is more of that same pile. I don't think we'll be able to get it all in the shed this year.

It's been a busy week, and if I don't get around to all of your blogs, please forgive me. I'll do better next week. Our son says he thinks we should have all this wood stacked by the week-end. We got the grass mowed this afternoon, and that's a chore done for the week-end too. The weather should be beautiful, so it will be productive.

Have a good one yourself.

Walking the dog this evening I saw this Katydid. It was the 2nd one I saw today.

Thursday night I saw this ultralight fly over our house. They sure are loud. I love to fly, but can't say I'd feel safe up there in that.

This Cantaloupe was so tasty. I paid $1.25 for it! I remember when I was a teenager and going on vacation with my parents down South. My Dad would stop at a farm market and pick up a couple melons for our breakfast the next morning. He would lay them on the motel room air conditioner over night, and they would be ice cold. He also paid $.25 for each of them.....