Saturday, July 21, 2012


This army hat belonged to Uncle Russell when he was drafted in the Korean War.
He passed it on to Eric when he was a little boy.

Sunday, July 8, 2012


The True Story

It really wasn't moved with just a "click and a snap." 
And I did not want anyone to think that it had. So now, I am posting the  pictures of how the shed was really moved.
It was pretty tricky but, not hard.  
But since I didn't do most of the work...  Michael, Cameron, Jeremy and Eric might all have something to say about it.
Eric  came up with the idea of using a jack to lift the shed and put 4x4's down to act as a sort of track. The shed would then roll on 3 steel poles that would act as "wheels".
Of course, when we ran out of track or rollers guess who had to do the work??? Me!  J/K
We used the car to push or pull the shed at times. 
The shed was secured to nearby trees as anchors to keep it from toppling.  
There was some fast scrambling and some hollering when we all thought we might lose the shed down a 3 foot swell on one side of our property. 
Nobody was hurt and over all we had a great time working together.

P.S. The shed still is not where it needs to be. 


The Moving of "The Shed" to
 Stonehenge


It has been moved!
 It no longer sits directly behind our house.
It was moved just like the stones were in Old Britain.



He picked it up...
 It was done (with a click and a snap) just like that...


Ok. Ok. Well....Yes Eric did use help.  
Can you tell that these two were working really hard???
They look it.  Right??


How about Cameron ??? 


If Elyse hadn't been using all her face muscles
who knows were we'd be!!!


Here is our greatest helper!

Saturday, July 7, 2012


Our Beautiful Mississippi Kites



We think that these are the same birds 
that were here last year. 
This year we've all taken an interest in them. 
 They are pretty amazing.


We got to see one of the babies!
 Popped his head up and just watched us from the safety of his mother's wings.


The daddy and mamma bird take turns 
hunting and sitting in the nest.

They are a very small bird of prey.  
A wing span of only 3 feet! 
They eat insects such as cicadas ,grasshoppers and such.
(Wish we had one of those long lenses for my camera
 but, the scope worked pretty well for this shot.)