Photo Hunt (Card(s)

Every ideal and thought I had for this week photo hunt I thought was lame. I been blogging since 2005 I believe.

At first I never printed off my blog and I came up with ideal to print off my blog and put the pages in binder. Statement time...which is big pain in ass.

So I found a site called blog 2 print

and they been making my blog into a book form. I'm just doing some finish touches so I can order December 22, 2007 until March 21, 2008. (Volume VII)

I will put this on my credit card

Confession time...I wish I new about this company long before this.

To be part and to see what other posted visit our hostess TN CHICK

John Birch Arboretum

 

I wasn't sure when I was going to get this posting. I came conclusion that I enjoy journal or for me in this world a blog.

Not everything in one control. Which I don't even mind.

Murphy and I went and visit our son in the Spokane Valley which been a while.

I grew up in the Spokane Valley and we went up what is called the sunset hill so we could visit

John Birch Park  

One tree I always enjoy in flowering Hawthorne my parents had one and I could say that ole tree had a peaceful way about it.

The one in front of my parents home was a red one but I have to say after see the 

double white English Hawthorne it hit a spot for me. But a lot of people don't care about them because of the porkies.

Recently I been thinking and realize I only knew three creeks in Spokane area before which was Hangman (Latah), Chester, and Deep Creek.

I knew there was creek that ran though Finch park but never knew what it was called but now I know “Garden Spring Creek”

There where plenty of trees to look at.

I want to see the lilac collection and I did.

I really don't know if the men folks of family really enjoy it at all. Or they was trying to get to me. Like Murphy telling the boys they ought brought there fishing poles.

The rude remarks about the traffic noise. Confession time...The traffic noise was very distracting. The park was right beside the freeway. I would guess the park was there before freeway went though. President Eisenhower in the 50's put in our freeway system here in the United States and the park was put in 1949.

Regardless of there smart mouth comments. I enjoy the beauty of the park. I even found a tree with such long branch, the longest I seen.

Wonder what the tree could grab and hug. But I took a few minute sat under it on park bench.

Photo Hunt (Informative)

 What cause bruises?   

I recently bruise my leg on one of our  wood gathering adventures

When we loading the pick-up bed one of us and this time it was me in back of the bed of the pick stacking wood.

Some how I got hit buy a piece of firewood.

Statement time...The wood was being toss into the pickup gently.

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I had my annual physical and there was no way that the doctor wouldn't see the bruise. But she thought it was a pretty nasty bruise.

But I had some blood work done and my numbers concerning my liver was good. If I understand right they might be some connection between liver and bruising.

They drew anther vile of blood and was going to do some other type of test.

 

I believe my last photo hunt I posted in “looking down” which I posted a picture of dirt road that Daisy and I been walking.

Confession time...I thought I would have been down a lot father then I am.

Poor Daisy it was last Wednesday her and I was doing our walk. Some big yellow dog attacked her and drew blood.

Daisy isn't a fighter. That dog drew blood. I had to chase it away. It followed us up Pleasant Valley loop for a while. I carried a stick so I could protected Daisy.

You see Daisy isn't a alpha female and she easily intimated. So most of the day she hide behind the couch

Wood Hunting Adventure

Work isn't going all that smooth for Murphy. His employer Will has quite a good size tree nursery. Up towards Porthill Idaho which is really the first town when you come into the United States.

Also Will has a few residents he rents out

His renters can't pay there rent so there working the rent off.

So in the mean time Murphy and I are taking care of things around here. Like getting firewood.

As we get older we look for firewood that is easy to get. But if we had our way it would load it self in back of the pickup.

But we really don't work that hard for it anymore.

We even found a place to just sit and watch the creek go by.

It seem there an adventure sometime in getting wood or story to be told. Oh!!! How I wish it was smooth going.

Murphy located this larch dead of course. Which it was.

It look like it would be an easy fall.

Murphy tramped up the hill to fall the tree down with all the supplies like chain saw, hammer and hedge.

It seem like it to the saw longer to cut then I thought it would.

Then the tree was down.

Murphy had to come down resharpen the saw. He said the tree was “stringy”

So after the say got sharpen we both went up so the log could be cut into rounds and rolled off the hill side.

Which was joke in it self.

Between the two of us we do pretty good getting fire wood. I pretty much know where to stick something under the log so it remains off the ground and can help him roll the log to be cut.

Well once I actual pushed and it started to roll. Lucky the saw was on ground and stopped before it really became a mess. You see Murphy was in front.

The rounds should of went straight down the hill but it seem to get caught on every little thing or a few of rounds had a mind of there own. Went into the brush and new growth of trees.

I believe the saw needed resharpen about 3 times or so.

To even load the wood it needed to be split in half. But being stringing that was anther chore in it self. Murphy did the splitting but I got them stood up an ready. Confession time...I used to chopped fire wood but I let my self get out of shape which is no one fault except mine.

But it took Murphy plenty of time to chop up this wood.

Like I said it was stringy.

It did finish off the load for the pick up. We where so glad we didn't have to walk back up the hill to finish off the log that we fell.

Murphy made a remark that he was hopping that there would be enough down on road so we wouldn't have to go back up. Because he wasn't into sharpening the saw.

No Takers

Due to no takers on the summer scavenger hunt 2011. I'm now planning to start to post sometime after the 13^th of June.

Summer Hunt 2011

SUMMER HUNT 2011

Please pay close attention to dates and read entire posting. I'm hosting a summer time scavenger hunt. There will be seven items you need to find such as...

1. bottle cap
2. A piece of Jewelry bought from a thrift store
3. A local map of your resident town
4. Candle between 3 and 6 inches
5. An old catalog
6. Something green
7. tooth brush.

If you interest in doing a hunt for these items listed above please mail me at (Peppylady_60 at yahoo) In the subject area please put in “Summer Hunt 2011”

Also leave a comment on the blog posting of “Summer Hunt 2011”

Please leave a comment on my blog and put the word SOLOMAN ORCHID On the e-mail also leave the word SOLOMAN ORCHID I will also need to know if you want an international partner or not. Those who wish not to have international partner I will try not to give an international partner if some reason I can't find someone in your own country I'll try to place you with someone closes as I can.

Please let me know what country you live in and it ok to e-mail me.

The sign up dead line is June 6^th

I will be posting the swapping partners on my blog some where close to the 7^th June or so. Until the 12^th of June.

This is where I'll be posting partners and there email address.

Then it is your responsibility to check back at this blog to get your partners e-mail. Then contact your partner to find out where to ship your package to.

I will not be e-mail partners or posting personal addresses for the summer hunt. As for the e-mail address it will not link.

So make sure you stop in between the 7^th and 12^th of June.

So hopeful you had chance to find the item listed above but I'm giving you few extra day to find the items list above.

Then from the 12^th to about the 15^th of June package up your finding and mail them to your swapping partner.

Have fun and remember the coffee is always on.

Weather Report May of 2011

 

The hottest day in May was on the 21^st at 78 (25.5)

The coldest day in May was on the 3^rd at 26.6 (3.2)

The average high for the month of May was 62.3 (16.8)

The average low for the month of May was 33.4 (0.7)

Rainfall for the month of May was 1.75 (4.4)

Saw first lighting flash was on the 31^st of May.

 

Over the May day weekend Murphy and I decided to take a drive up on Solomon area to look for rocks. Looking across the valley is Purcell Mountain range.

As for the rocks we didn't bring out that much. The three reason are we didn't have mineral permit, My sleep time got messed up. Statement time...I stayed up to late.

Plus both of us has veto power. After each of us gets to pick our favor rock.

So being that close to Solomon lake we stop in. Last time I was there it was so low. Actual I was wondering if it was going to dry up.

It been a wet spring and still there more snow to come off the mountains. So Solomon lake has plenty of water in it.

The day before (Sunday) Memorial day Murphy and I went up to Grand view Cemetery to decorate 5 graves. Between Murphy and I we have 19 relatives up there. So we decorate our parents graves. Then also my cousin Doyle and my Uncle John.

The way I picked I put the reminding two graves I want to decorate is place there names in sandwich bag and had Murphette draw two names out.

I'm not a big memorial day fan it least of my favorite holidays.

Confession time...I would do differently for Memorial day. As I posted here