YARD SALE & FUN THINGS

I had a yard sale yesterday, joined in on a neighborhood one. Not as many peeps around that usually  come to yard sales like this. Not one person bothered me at 7 am before the sale started at 8 am. This sale is one that I have had the least amount of stuff to sell. Before I took these pic's I had sold a few pieces of furniture so it looks kinda empty.

 This is a view from the other end of side walk. I set up in front of my house usually is do it in the drive way on the side and in front. All the trees you see in the front of my house are ones that I grew from little twigs. You cant see the sunburst locust, then a oak that I planted from an acorn and a magnolia on the right side of the side walk, and in the for ground is a Korean Dogwood. My own little forrest.  My house faces the west and the south so I get hot sun all day and evening. Before the trees grew I could not enjoy my  front porch. Now every thing is totally shaded.

So this morning bright and early 6:30 am Maggie and I went out for breakfast. Our first meal in our new RV MzSavana! What fun. We went to our local park Riverside Park. Went to McD, and sheets for our breakfast food. Oat meal, ever eat McD's oat meal??? Wonderful stuff. And french vanilla from Sheetz. !  It was almost like staying at a campground. The Shenango Rive runs along side it so we even had some water near by.                  

Sat in my new to me lawn chair in side, and Maggie tested out our new bed ! My son build my bed for me on Thursday I have pic's of that and will post that next time. I love my new bed!!!! Thanks son!!!
Will be cleaning up from the yard sale and cleaning out the garage today. We will be leaving in 2 and 1/2 weeks, I am glad to be going but awful sad at the same time. My brothers children are having an auction on the 25th, we will not be here, and I am glad. That place has been my home all these years, raised there , then dad sold it to my bro and it was still home. Well I better get busy, thanks for looking and come back soon!
Blessings G&M

JUST A POST

I guess the worst of it is over with for dad and I. We will be headed back to Florida on Sept. 5. My brothers children are having an estate auction on the 25th but we will be gone by then. I don't have any pic's to show you but thought I would put in a few old barn's up might see while traveling thru the Pennsylvania country side. Pa is a beautiful state and you all should come and spend some time. Not so much in the winter tho, unless you want ot spend a LOT of time lol. This is a pic of an out house that I think is still in use on an Amish farm. There are quit a few of those still around. Lot of Amish in the area where I live.

 And here is a pic of me and my Maggie girl, in happier time. My brother took this pic of us at a yard sale we were having at his place a couple years ago.

I will be trying to blog more, I want to blog about our trip back to FL but it will not be a camping trip. Dad will be with me. Making Mz. Savanah into my travel RV should make for some interesting blogging! On Thurs. my son is coming to build my bed. I will take pic's.  I dont expect to get much done the rest of the time I am here, but will work on it in FL.
Some times I am not sure what to write about in this blog. At first it was to be a geocache blog, then added travel to it, that did not turn out, due to going to stay with my dad. Now I have been thinking that I might want to start blogging for the future generations of my family. But then again not sure what to tell them. Maybe I will just write what I am feeling and what is going on in life for me at the time. Oh well I am sure I will  muddle along.
Trying to get packing for the trip is giving me fits this time. Seems like I cant concentrate on what needs to be done. I do have what art/craft supplies I am taking with me done. But that's about it. Soon as bed is built I will start packing van and see what goes from there. Taking dad to dentist today and see about getting myself a pair of shoes. Yesterday I trimmed back the butter fly bushes, hated to do it so early but have no choice this time. Also got the lawn mowed with son's mower. So thats if for now thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings G&M

UPDATE & SOME CACHING PIC'S

All those flags around the canon balls. Found a cache here on Sunday. There was a fine mist of rain and very cloudy, so my GPS was all over the map, made it hard to find any.This giant dead tree was in the same cemetery hiding a cache. Again the GPS had me all over the place.

This was the cache the giant was hiding. I like these kind you can leave a TB in them.I remember when you could drive your car thru this underpass. It went across the Shenango River and to the cemetery. There is a railroad track on the top. Still in use. We went thru it to the cache area........

.......and found this.....Maggie trying to figure out witch way to go. Bouncing GPS could not figure it out either. So we did not find this one. Only 2 out 0f 6 were found on Sun. Have been trying to get things done here in the house, having trouble, need something to push me into getting it done. Not much sunshine in the NW PA....I need SUNSHINE!! I did get done with the painting in the bathroom and Son got the small leak fixed. It was a thorn in his side.... couldn't get it to stop, it was really a tiny micro but would be under the floor and over time would become a bigger problem. Just have a few little things to do in there and done with that room. There is so much up in the air with me that I don't really know what to do about the house . I am not even sure I would want to live in Fl all alone. With family so far away. So maybe I will not sell the house. Not sure about renting, people do not take care of something that is not theirs. I had a close friend that rented out apartments and you would not believe how people treated the property.

I guess I will concentrate on getting rid of my stuff. Even this has become overwhelming. I have found getting older, you don't want to deal with alot of things. This being one of those for me.

Maggie is doing great. She is back to her old self, running around , playing with her toys, making me laugh, such a sweet dogie. No more hot spots either, no itching and keeping me awake half the night.

All for now thanks for looking and come back soon.

Blessings

G&M

GEO-CACHING WITH THE HECKER-WINEY'S

Here is Mike up a tree after the cache! Poor man we had him every where on this last trip to get the rest of the geo-0p0ly series. We had only 4 more to get (we had looked for them already once) this one was in a pine tree. Pretty far up too. You can bet if I had to do this by myself, I would not have finished the series.There were 30 properties we had to get I think this was the last one. Mr HW digging around in the brush. He found it in there!

Mr. HW in more brush!



And even more brush, it's like looking for waldo remember him?

Look there's more bushes lol.

Mrs HW with the cute find of the day.









To compensate we let Mr HW do his off roading thing in the geo-mobile with out any complaints from us!

Poor Mrs HW broke a nail on this cache, and it was a hard cache to find. I think this might have been our third trip to this cache site. We got a hint and still could not find it . So Cindy and I stood around awhile talking about and calculating things and bingo we got it. She was so frustrated she broke a nail opening it.

We really had a good time caching this geo-oply series. We found the last four we needed and found ten others hid in the area.

Maggie and I found a few caches this past week using my new Droid X . Cindy showed me an app for caching with the phone and I'm loving it. Before I had to write everything down and now all I have to do is turn on my Droid! Took a trip to the beach and seen another dog on the beach so I took Maggie for a short walk. She does not like the ocean, but loves all the new and interesting new smells. Working on packing up a few things. This summer while I am gone my dads friend is going to install an air conditioner in the Florida room for me. So I am putting my art stuff in totes until I get back.

Well that's in for now. Thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings

Donna and Maggie says boof boof

HERBS, BIRDS, & A CACHE

HERB GARDEN: I planted a few more herbs now that spring is here in Florida! The bird houses are going to be hung on the old orange tree stump later. I have some black wrought iron hooks back in PA and will be bringing them back in the fall. I have been looking all over for some chives, and can not find them anywhere. They have onion chives here but not chives. I want the regular chives. So I planted some seeds yesterday, That is what you see in the bottom corner of the pic. Incubating some seeds lol! Hope they take.

BIRD BATH: Yesterday I was working in the yard, and cleaned out this old bird bath It is old, cement, and heavy. It use to be planted with some flowers, dad took them out last year, and that's as far as it got. So I cleaned it up some what,(has some nice patina to it) and filled it with water to see what would happen. Well you know from the last post that the robin migration has invaded our area and as soon as I walked away it was swamped with robins. It was amazing! All day long they were all over that bird bath, now remember there are hundreds of robins here right now. It holds about 5 gal of water and I filled it 3 times today. Unbelievable !! It was fun to watch them seems there is a pecking order and you can not go out of order to drink you had to wait your turn, mostly on the fence . I enjoyed watching them. Those white lawn chairs were covered with bird poo and I scrubbed them twice before I decided to move them. Duh!
CLOSE UP OF ROBINS: This is a close up the best I could do with my cheapo camera. You can see the blurs those are birds arriving trying to find a spot. lol! There is a cute "The End" bird pic for you Judy right in front! Saw lot of that today, was funny looking when 5 or 6 were mooning me! I tried but could not get a pic of them.

ANOTHER BUNCH!

BLACK BIRDS: Along with the robins are flocks of small black birds, I don't know what they are.

But they seem to be afraid of the robins. Today every once in awhile one would sneak in and try and get a drink with the robins and they would chase him off. Finally about 4 PM the robins started moving on and the black birds flew up to get a drink , even then the few robins still hanging around chased them off. I was able to get this one pic of the black birds. There are not near as many black birds as there are robing.

STUMPED CACHE. : I almost did not find this cache ( DNF ) I walked all over this area in yet another small park, the hint was Don't be stumped. Well I did not walk all around this group of palm trees while we were looking (me n maggie) and I could not find it. So I put maggie in the truck and thought I would do one more look around. I went around the trees and there was the stump, easy after that ! Another nice little park I would never have seen if not for geocaching, it was right along the Indian River.

THE CACHE

CACHE AGAIN ONLY A LOG INSIDE

WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL. Sunny, windy, in the 70's Beautiful

All in all it was a great day. Nice weather just right , sunny and breezy. Did laundry, went to gym, took 30 min morning walk with maggie, watched birds, cleaned kitchen and scrubbed floor, watched more birds. Maggie was outside a lot today so she was happy.

That fire is still burning, still only 25% contained and they had I-95 closed on and off all day.

Guess that's all for now thanks for looking come back soon!

Blessings

G&M

ROAD TRIP SUNDAY

FALL FEST

FUN THINGS

PICK YOUR OWN

GUARDING THE CACHE

THE CACHE
WEATHER ON SUNDAY 80'S AND SUNNY!

All weekend we had great weather, just like summer hot! But I was loving it cause it was cold and rainy most of the week before I left. On Sunday we went to a local farm market, to pick apples and when we got there we found out they were having a Fall Fest. Lot of things going on for kids of all ages. It was so crowded in the store part we could not move. So we just got our bag and went out and picked our apples. Red Delicious what my DD wanted there were soooo many apples on the ground under the trees, I dont know if they were fallen or knocked down by the pickers. Any way it was fun, did not take long to pick them. Did not do much else on Sun.

The cache of the day I found on the way home just outside of Winchester VA. It was in a mini park along side the road way. The hint was (look for the natural guard) well soon as I pulled in the trees were looking like a natural guard to me. And I was right , did not take long, I had the cache in hand and signed. I left a travel bug that I found in a cache near Reynolds PA.

All for now thanks for visiting my blog.

G&M

SKETTTY SAUCE & A CACHE...& PROGREES?

GUARD RAIL CACHE

THE CACHE

FROM THIS........

TO THIS ! WEATHER TODAY: TEMP 61 COOL AND RAINING...FALL IS COMING!

Thought I would show you the finished product. We got 35 pts out of two batches. Brother is going to pick more tomatoes tonite and we will make sauce again on Sunday. I don't mind canning or cooking for that matter, I kind of enjoy it as long as I'm not rushed. When I was married about a 100 ys ago we did tons of canning. One year we had sooooo...many tomatoes we even made ketchup!

Yesterday I worked on packing and purging. I got alot done, with all the paper, computer desk, and other desk area. Computer desk is now clean and empty. The other desk is clean and mostly empty, the only things left in drawers are paper work I need to take with me. My truck will hold 10 large totes, stacked two high and that is about all. I all ready have that many and a few more packed, that does not include my clothes and such. I have a few pieces of furniture I want to take and have no idea how i will get it to Fl.

I think I am pretty much done for this year. As I look back on all the things we got accomplished this past year, starting last fall to this fall, we did a lot. Most of it was done this summer as I spent the winter in Fl as you know :)

WHAT WE DID

1. Scraped, primed and painted the whole outside of house.

2. Rehabed the garage. New roof also. This was a lot of work took more time and money than first thought.

3. Cleaned out basement, this was major undertaking there was only a path to the washer and that was it!!

4. Scraped and put dryloc on the walls and floor in basement. Painted the floor also. I only have about 1/2 hr. of work left in basement.

5. Cleaned out shed, yard sale alot of it and took to flea market to sell

6. Painted trim & vanity in bathroom and took up the rug. Needs flooring now.

7. Power washed the porch and stained it.

8. Had 3 yard sales. I did not get to do the tag sale thing this year, but it will be done next spring/summer. Having a yard sale is not easy by any means!

I am sure there was more, like the packing and purging, guess we got alot done when you

list it all. And a BIG thanks to my Son for all the help and work he did, I could not have done it

alone, THANKS SON!! :) (not that he reads my blog )

The cache of the day we found the other day, It is a new series of GRF ( Guard Rail Fun) caches that someone is doing. Just right for grammynmaggie, as I am not to sure how safe it is for old lady and a dog to be traipsing around in the woods alone. LOL

All for now, thanks for stopping by

G&M

CACHE, FISING, RAINY SUNDAY

NICE VIEW HIDING CACHE

THE CACHE WEATHER:Temp 80 , cloudy and rain on and off.

Maggie the geo-dog, and I went out early this morning to get some caches. First we went to a couple at a swimming beach at the Shenango Damn. It was great no one around except on fisherman around the corner from the beach area. I don't know if it was to early or the clouds that put the Mrs. Carmin - Geea in a "mood" or what, because she didn't know her left from her right. But after some time and geo-sense kicking in we found it. We watched as the fisherman hooked and landed a nice size fish. We found a total of 3 this morning, more about them another time. I have to save some for the times I don't go caching.

Son made good progress on the garage this week, its looking good , he complains because its not perfect, I keep reminding him what he had to work with, and considering that, it looks great! I will have before and after pic's when its done.

We tried a little fishing and had no luck, and lost a lure to boot. Then the rains came and we left for home. Guess that's all for now

Happy Caching

G&M