Saturday Mowing - photo heavy

After our last visit up to our 10 acres we decided that we had better get started on mowing it back to open fields before we loose it all to woods. So we loaded up the truck and headed through Columbia to get to the North side.

A view of our Capital City of Columbia from West Columbia; you can see the State House near the center. It's the one with the copper dome. And since we were crossing over a bridge with a nice view of the Gervais Street Bridge I took a couple photos of it as well.

A friend of ours calls this "the pretty bridge" and she is SO right. I wish I had been able to get photos of it tonight on the way home with all the beautiful old lamps lit. They were originally gas lamps and the thought of a man walking the bridge each night to light them brings a warm fuzziness to me.

This is a photo of Scott preparing to start his Gravely tractor; you can see how over grown the front field has gotten. It took him awhile to cut a path through the center and around the perimeter but once he had that done he could go around with a good bit more ease.

And OFF HE GOES.....

This was me... sitting, knitting and Supervising.

Making some progress....

OOPS... he caught me with my feet up.
I decided to walk around where he had all ready mowed and took so more photos from different vantage points.

Pine Forrest trying to take over

"The Driveway"

From the bottom of "the driveway"

From the Upper Corner by the Preacher's House - GIANT BECKY!

Of course I had to take some photos of things that caught my eye as well...

Old Fence posts...

The beautiful Carolina Sky

Gum Balls on a Blue background

Sometimes the beauty is in the shadow alone.

Weed seeds

Wicked Thistle!

And the best part was when Scott would hit one of these with the mower and give out an evil chuckle...

TAKE THAT FIRE ANTS!

And finally the sunset as we came back across the river from Columbia; looking back towards the Children's Museum...

On My Mind - Christmas for Little Boys

On My Mind is two of my little nephews.....

A "little bird" (aka Grandma) told me that one little man is in love with GREEN.

Still collecting Shark fabrics but have had to op for "ocean" themed fabrics as I'm still having trouble locating fabric locally that has sharks on it.

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A Song that reaches my very Being

I love this song and it speaks to my inner most being.

Supervisory Cat

I heard the large trucks arrival and decided to take a few photos of them scooping up all our tree trimmings...

The workers had no idea they were under scrutiny by the always "in charge feline" - Mr Tesla!

It was almost like - "Whats all this then?" 

I will have to go out and rake up all the bits they left behind as they never do that - just scoop and roll.

Body is Still on Daylight Savings Time

I was wide awake at 2:16 AM and decided to just get up and start my day. Hopefully today will go better than yesterday as I had severe pain in my legs and my entire shift at work felt like torture. I still have some nagging pain this morning but nothing like yesterday. Knocking on wood here for a better day.

So I'm cooking dinner.....

Don't you just love it when your husband comes in and says he needs your "input on safety" right when you are putting a meal in the slow cooker? To which I replied... "Can you give me about 15minutes and what are you doing anyways?"... "trimming on trees". So I quickly got everything into the slow cooker and turned it on and went out to see what he was up to; well he decided to deal with the Magnolia tree branch that has been hitting the roof above our bedroom and it was hanging half on and half off the tree... he didn't "WAIT". So I told him to get some weight off the branch before cutting anymore. We got it down and then decided to take some more branches off to open up the area so more sun can get to my hydrangea and camellia that I had planted near the fence to the neighbors in the hopes that they'd bloom better next year. I didn't get any "before" pictures because I had no idea what was going on when "it began". But here is what the area looks like now...

You can see the cut on the Magnolia where the huge branch came over and blocked the sun over the flower bed next to the neighbors. I trimmed the hydrangea back but left the camellia 'leggy' until after it blooms as I don't remember if it is a pink one of a white one as I started several types years ago and can't remember what was planted where. I guess I need to start keeping a Gardeners Journal so that I can know what is planted where. 

We dragged all the trimmings to the street and the City will probably have to send out the large truck with the grabber on it to pick it all up.

Scott also trimmed a little on some of the trees in the front yard so the pile is quite high and long.

I just about got all the laundry tackled and that's about it - so much for house cleaning. I took a mid-morning nap and then made a trip to the Post Office to drop a few bills in the box and then I stopped at Jo-Ann Fabrics as they had notions on sale and I needed some more quilting needles for my machine as well as some hand embroidery and beading needles. I also picked up some tailors chalk as I am planning to sew some clothes over the next couple of weeks.

Fall Back time once more....

I wish we would stick to one time and never have "Spring Forward" and "Fall Back". Just live in Standard time all the time and be done with it. I'm up before Dawn this morning and am looking forward to watching the sunrise in an hour or so. I've all ready started laundry and will do house cleaning today as well since we goofed off yesterday and I have to return to my job tomorrow.

Perhaps I will fit a bit of sewing in today as well. I've started working on Carrolyn's Crazy quilt block and plan to add some more to that today as well. Need daylight before I can do that though as I can't see well enough to work on it before the sun comes up. I hope that she will like what I've added.

I've also been thinking about how nice a couple of long full skirts would be to wear this winter and I have the fabric for several in my "stash". I'm very thankful for my fabric stash these days with the price of fabric going up and up. Not sure what I will do when I run out of it... but that's going to take awhile.

Greg found out yesterday that his Chief is retiring and that has saddened him as he greatly respects and appreciates his leadership. Hopefully their Division will get a good replacement. Life is all about changes.

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.