AROUND THE YARD & A CACHE

VIEW FROM CACHE

THE CACHE

KOREAN DOGWOOD

FIRST BUTTERFLY

SECOND BUTTERFLY

LANDSCAPE DONE

FOR BIRD WATCH' IN
TEMP IN 80'S Hot and muggie with storms everyday almost

The first pic is of a Korean Dogwood tree I planted about 8 years ago. It was only about 4 foot high when I planted it. I think it is slow growing, but seems to have grown alot. In the spring and early summer it gets those white blossoms . Then in the fall it gets what I call red bead type berries on it. It really blooms 3 seasons. I think I like it more than the reg dogwood that only blooms once and for a short time. The white blooms are on the tree about 6 weeks.

Next two pic's are of the first butterflies I seen on my butterfly bushes this season. I was hanging up clothes and looked over and seen them, ran in to get camera to show you all. The bushes just started to bloom day before yesterday, they sure popped out ! The blooms on the bushes smell like honey to me, no wonder they like them, and also they attract humming birds.

We have been working for the last 2 weeks and got the garage done. I have some clean up to do in front before I post pic's, will do before and after. The before are really bad, I don't want to show them!

I have a lot more landscaping to do, but got that one little section done. I hung up the bird feeder so I could sit on my newly refinished porch and watch the birds. After reading Judy&Emma's blog http://travels-with-emma.blogspot.com/ and seen all her great pic's of birds, got me interesting in bird watching, so far I have seen just a few verities. Sparrow, blue jay, cardinal, and the robins but they don't use the feeder. Its fun to watch them, they must have a "pecking" order, they chase each other away from the feeder. Some of the sparrows get in there and bird seeds go flying everywhere, its a riot, then others go in and eat daintily no seeds flying at all.

The cache for today, I wanted the pic's to be in the middle of this post, after the text telling about the above. If any one can tell me how to do that, I would be grateful, or maybe with this template you can't do that. Well anyway this cache Maggie - the geo - hot dog and I found this one a few days ago. It is in the Shenango Dam area, and is just a short walk from parking lot. It was not to hard to find, it is sitting in the pic beside its hiding place. It's the same area where I saw the man hook a big cat fish, at least that's what it looked like from my view.

Well thats all for now

Happy Caching

G&M

PS click on the pic to make them bigger

A CACHE & WORK PROGRESS

CACHE IN A TREE

HANG'IN A TREE

THE WORK SPACE

ON THE ROOF WEATHER: Weekend weather was great, sunny 70 just right for working

today, cool and rain.

The cache of the day was one we found on Mothers Day Sunday, a nice easy cache, in a local cemetery. You can see old s tones, since caches placed in cemeteries are along the edge mostly you see the old old stones, some so old the names are worn off by the elements. It is very interesting to see the old stones way back to the 1700's. I haven't seen any old than that. I was looking all around the base of the tree, that is usually where they are hid, finally found it hanging in front of my face.

Son got a lot done on the garage this weekend, a pic of him on the roof and a pic of patio / work space. We hit the basement with a big hit this weekend. Took two truck loads of lumber( mostly scraps from my wood working days ) out ! When we looked at it in a big pile I couldn't imagine that all of it was in the basement. Unbelievable what we cram in our spaces! Also found water leakage not good :( I don't know how much I will get done today, tired and lazy feeling. But I will work on something, maybe more packing up one for sale, two keep, three throw away. A box for everything! Some day this will be all done! Then what will I do??? lol

That's all for now

Happy Caching

G&M

PS I put a pic of me and Maggie on the blog.