FIRST SNOWFALL... That's right, Oct 18!

Unbelievable. It's only October 18th, and it's snowing...

It's six days and a wake-up. After church on Sunday we'll leave for a week-long drive to Atlanta where we'll spend a few days with Kaitlyn, Skip and Eli, then off to Germany... Just in time for the Christmas Markets!

Fall

Just back from a walk with the dogs.

We took a few photos from around the ponds...

Free to a Good Home

As many of you know, we're moving back to Germany. We're NOT taking our chickens with us, so we're offering them up for FREE to a good home.

If they don't lay any eggs, feel free to eat them.

Another guest

We found this little guy scampering across our lawn today...

Another guest at the feeder

We had another guest at the bird feeder. This time it was one of our own...

Trees are starting to change

It's hard to see, but this family of ducks (bottom left of the pond) have been living in our pond for the last few months.

Belfast from the bridge...

Colors are really starting to come out now.

Fall fell with the scent of a skunk...

It's difficult to see, but just to the left of the blue rope below is a skunk. We've had a lot of them around this year. Well, Jade caught one this evening. She's sleeping outside covered in tomatoe juice. The stench is UNBELIEVABLE! Unfortunately the smell goes through walls!

Here is Jade before...

The trees along Goose River (a stream from Swan Lake) seem to turn earlier than anywhere else.

We've got lots of wild daisys around our ponds

Unfortunately we also have a lot of goldenrod...

The chicks are nearly fully grown now, but they're still not laying eggs...

These last three were left off my last post. Chris Moody and I went fishing and caught three fish... and lost a rod.

The deck and an uninvited guest

A view of our new deck. More below

But first, I let the dogs out tonight and found this freeloader on our bird feeder

The garden's coming along. We thought we should just give up, but it's producing

A few more photos of the deck