Quilt Barn (9)

Linking up with Tom again this week for his Barn Collective Series.

Another Barn Quilt from Garrett county Maryland where I live.

The owner of this white washed barn is Kenney Signs, Inc.  

It is near Finzel between Rte 40 and I68.

This block is the 'Circle of Life in Garrett County'

and depicts the four distinct seasons we have.

This block was the winning entry in the Quilt Block contest.

It was designed by Ginni Neff.

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Saturday I was up and out of the house at 6:30 but not to walk.

We were in the car.

Ken went down to Tomonium (3 hour drive one way)for the big train show 

there at the fairgrounds.

On the way he dropped me off at my friend Mary Jo's house and we

spent the day together.  Had a great visit and we had lunch out.

Ken picked me up on the way home.

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 Sunday I woke up late at 7:30 so didn't get to walk yesterday morning either.  

I like to be home at 7:45 to give me enough time to get ready for church. 

Sunday afternoon was beautiful. Sunny and 70 degrees. 

It seemed more like spring so I went for my walk then.
My neighbor Sharon two doors down from me was out walking too.
I walked 3 miles on my own and 2 with Sharon.

This morning I was back to my regular walk.
It was 42 degrees and very dark and I walked around town
under the street lights.  When it lightened up a bit and the sky had that
glow to it, I walked the cemeteries and ball park loop.

Didn't see anyone else out walking.
I saw Chuck from our church in the parking lot of the post office.
He is an electrician and was doing a job at the PO.
He was surprised I had already walked 6 miles this morning.

 It wasn't til after I was back home that the sun came up over the mountain.
Sunrise was 7:45.
Walked 6.3 miles
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 I made blueberry pancakes for breakfast and then we headed out to Happy
Trails to get started putting the 'slab wood' siding on the cabin.

Taken on the cabin deck

Here we have put the starter piece on and two boards.

Here's a closer look.

We measured, cut, painted and then put up the boards.
The paint is watered down and is like a white wash except this is blue.
By lunch time we had this much finished.

Look at the size of these boards.

By 4:00 we were ready to quit for the day and this is how we left it.

We got MORE done on this first day than I though we would,

but we got LESS done than Ken thought we would.

 

Came home got cleaned up and then headed out to Brenda's

for half price pizza night.

Stopped at Lowe's and another stop at the Shop and Save

to get some ice cream before heading back home. 

Life is Good.

A happy day to you.

happyone 🎈

"Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved,

are rather regretting just because of one reason;

they looked at what someone else was doing.

Comparison eliminates contentment

and then kills inner joy."

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Cabin Work

These two pictures I took yesterday from my front porch.

This one is about 8:15 in the evening.

Can you see the moon up there as well?

 This one taken earlier in the day.  

The clouds were super amazing all afternoon.

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This morning was another 72 degree one with no breeze and sunny, at least for a little while.  Then the clouds started moving in.  The sky behind me was a bright sunny blue.

Soon there was no sun to be seen at all.

I walked all around town with no special route in mind.  

Pretty quite around town but I did see Rebecca walking her little white dog.

I looked up a lot at the changing sky.

I felt a couple of drops of rain and heard some thunder so I headed for home.

At first the rain was gentle and as the road started to get wet it had that summer rain smell.  Oh I love that smell. 

But it wasn't long before the clouds let go of the rain and boy did it come down.  

I was drenched by the time I reached home.  

It sure cooled me off.

I would have walked all 6 miles if it was just raining but with the thunder I didn't.

I ended up walking only 5 miles.

Sunrise 6:27

Sunset 8:17

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After breakfast we headed up to Happy Trails to get some work done.
We put up plywood in the kitchen area.

 Just to the left we started to put up wood panels in the bedroom area.
The lights that will be above the bed are installed too.

And another panel we put up on the back wall.

Still have lots more to do but feel like we got a very good start on the inside now.
I thought we would have gotten more done today, but it takes a lot more time than you think. 
Here's a close up of the paneling. 
Paneling has come a long way and this stuff really does look like boards.

I went to a wedding shower this evening for Elizabeth, one of the young woman from church.  She is getting married in Oct and will be moving to Texas.
The shower was lovely and I had a very nice time.
Really glad I went.

And so another day comes to and end.

It's been a good one.

Hope your day was a happy one.

happyone : )

"A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle
instead of through it."
~ R C Ferguson

Happy Trails Work

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68 degrees this morning with a mix of clouds and a nice breeze. Walked straight through town and out the other end and went down toward HT, passed up the the turn off road to HT and walked another 1/2 mile down the road.

Then turned around and walked back to town, around both cemeteries and the ball park loop and then headed home.

Lena was out walking today with Kathy and we three stopped for a short chat.  Kathy asked if I had eaten the peach. : )  I'll do that tomorrow.  A man was out walking his dog too, but I'd never seen him before.

Walked 6.2 miles.

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Ken put up the shelves last night and then I put a few of my things on them.  My step-dad made the shelves. Three of them are now in the dining room.

The other two are in the back sitting room.  The Monopoly game board hanging on the wall is one I made quite a few years ago.  It is a counted cross stitch done to scale and you can actually play the game on it.  The picture on the right is a needlepoint I made and the piece of crazy quilt in the frame was made and given to me by my friend Elsie a long time ago.

Ken went up to Happy Trails again today and this time I went with him.  The weather was sun and clouds and we had a rain shower but then the sun came back out.
Yesterday Ken finished putting the shingles on the bump out and stained them blue.  He used old pallets.  The other little bump out in front will have the same shingles. 

The rest of the front will have the slab boards on it.  We are still waiting for the guy to call with the saw mill who is going to cut the trees that Ken got from church a while back.  Hopefully that will happen next week.

We collected more rocks with the tractor and Ken used them to make these steps.  We are using some of our crushed rock on the steps too. They are still not finished but this is what is done so far.  Notice that Men Working sign? : )

We cleaned the inside of the cabin up a bit and took a lot of the tools and things we weren't using back down to the tractor barn to put away.  Here's a shot of the inside of the cabin.  I'm standing in the corner where Ken just put the shingles up to take the picture.

When we got back home I did a bit of weeding out in the front yard.  I filled up two wheelbarrow fulls and then I had it for the day.

Looking forward to ice cream later for my snack.  Lately I've been eating a Hagan flavor called Chippedy Chocolaty.  It's vanilla ice cream with chocolate shavings in it that taste like the chocolate coating you get on the ice cream on a stick.  It is very good and I think I might even like it better than Chocolate Chip Mint.

So that's been my Friday.
Hope your day was a happy one.
happyone : )

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.

~ Unknown

A little work at HT

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The morning started off cool with a temperature of 53 degrees.  Started out cloudy but ended up sunny and beautiful.  Great weather for a morning walk.

I walked the Farm Loop.  Saw Joyce walking down to Hartmans' to get her cup of coffee and we stopped for a little chat.  She lives along the farm loop.

The dairy cows were split in the two fields this morning.  Some out in the far pasture and some near the road.  The cows in the picture above are up on Spear Road where I walked up just a short way and is a road off of the farm loop.  The cows belong to Farmer Bill.

Didn't walk through town this morning but took a loop around the industrial park and then home.
Walked 6 miles.

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The rhubarb and ice cream was very good last night and I did take a picture of it but some pictures of food just don't come out looking very appetizing and this was one of those times.

Went up to Happy Trails today for a day of work.  We started putting in the insulation and got the front wall done.  Here is Ken working on it.

 We had a picnic lunch up at HT and I had peanut butter bread and cottage cheese with pineapple in it.  
We also went around in the ATV and collecting some more flat rocks for the patio at home.

Home now for supper and then off to church.  I'll probably be having more rhubarb and ice cream tonight for my snack.

A happy day to you.
happyone : )

 Kindness, like a boomerang,

always returns.

~ Unknown

Day Twenty of Thanks

Giving Thanks Day Post Twenty

Happy Trails

I am thankful for Happy Trails.

21 acres of our own personal park : )

The trails to walk along

Peace and quiet

The stream is dry now but still thankful that 

sometimes we can hear the water running over the rocks.

That it is only 3 miles from home

Thankful for the view into town

Our little pond

Happy Trails is a great place and so glad we found it.

We bought the land first because we wanted 

a little retreat from the crowds where we lived.

Then came to realize we wanted to be in this area always.

I thank God for leading us here. : )

Thought you might like to see the latest picture of the cabin.  We have some left over gray vinyl siding from the tractor barn (which you can see part of in the left of the picture) and have decided to use that up on the back of the cabin. We've painted it blue. I thought it came out looking great.  We have enough to finish the back.  Sides and front we will do with the shingles made from the pallets.

A happy day to you.
happyone  : )

Day Nine of Thanks and HT Cabin Update

Giving Thanks Post Day Nine

Colors

I am thanking God today for all the beautiful colors He used

in creating our world.

How drab things would be without color.

He has given us a beautiful blue sky

Puffy white clouds 

Pink, red, yellow, orange sunrises and sunsets

Green, gold, yellow, red leaves

Rainbows of all colors

White snow

Flowers of every color

Fruits and vegetables of red, green, yellow, orange, purple

Birds and animals of many colors

You just have to look around and see all the beautiful colors.

God has created a beautiful world

for which I am truly thankful.

By the way my favorite color is RED

with BLUE a very close second.

What's yours?

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We've been up at HT and I thought you'd like to see the latest pictures of the work that has gotten done.  We have made our goal of having the cabin closed in before the snow comes.

The entrance way door

The little bump out in the front now has a roof

This is what we decided to put on the outside of the building.

We are using old pallets.

Taking them apart, painting them with watered down blue plant,

and cutting them into shingles which get nailed up.

And here's a little fun thing that Ken made.

A bird house to match the cabin.  : )

A happy day to you.
happyone : )

Door, railing and goodbye

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Left the house at 6:30 this morning and it was 41 degrees out and foggy but the sun chased away the fog and it was a sunny morning.

I walked through town and down towards HT and then around town including both cemeteries and the ball park.

Saw a couple of deer and a whole bunch of black birds sitting on the cat tails by the town pond.  It was hard to tell in the fog but I think they may have been red winged blacked birds.

No people about this morning.

A foggy cemetery. 

 I saw a doe and her fawn out in whats left of one of the corn fields.  They are in the picture but might be hard to spot.

Deer just off center to the left.

Walked 5.5 miles.
Found my first coin for this month - a penny.

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Our dinner at the Hen House was very good last night. Will certainly go back there again!

Got three loads of laundry done and hung up on the line.
I'm loving these beautiful sunny fall days and it's been great that we got to do outside activities with David here.  : )

This morning I baked chocolate chip cookies.  Didn't have any in the freezer and I just couldn't have David here and not have chocolate chip cookies. : ) 

The other day when David took off walking he walked 9 miles.  Late this morning he went on another walk and this time went 16 miles.  Like I said he walks circles around me!!

Ken and I went up to HT for just a little while in the afternoon.  I wanted to see the sliding glass doors that are now installed. The slider works perfectly.  This afternoon Ken drilled holes in the railing posts and we threaded some steel cable through the holes to make a railing.  We used that because we wanted something that wouldn't block our view.  The steel cable was a great auction buy!!

A closer look at the cable.

We will do something else with the two sides of the porch.

When we got back home David was back from his walk.  We had dinner and then at 6:30 he left for home which is about a 5 hour drive to NJ.  What a great visit we had with David.  It was so nice that he got to stay for more than just a day.  I shall miss him!!

Back to our regular evening, ice cream, knitting and a little television.  I will make a start at getting back to visiting you all. 

Hope your day has been a happy one.
happyone : )

Goodbyes are not forever.

Goodbyes are not the end.

They simply mean I'll miss you

Until we meet again.

~ Unknown

A day at Happy Trails

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Dark as usual when I left on my morning walk, but it was a beautiful sunny day once the sun came up.  It was 45 degrees.

Walked straight through town and down past the turn off for HT and then back to town.  Then walked around around town, the cemeteries and the ball park loop.

Didn't see any people or animals out.  It was too dark to see anything. : )

Nothing unusual but a nice walk all the same.  Didn't take any pictures along my walk.  All pictures were taken up at Happy Trails today.

I walked 5.5 miles.

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We spent the whole day up at HT working and walking around and having a good day. 

The other day when Ken came up alone he made this ramp for the tractor when we use the rock crusher.  It still needs some crushed stone on top of the dirt which we will crush with the crusher.  You may remember that there were ramps made out of wood.

He also put rocks here for another step going up along the side of the cabin.

Today Ken put the skylight in over where the bed will be.  This is taken inside looking up.

He also put shingles on the roof but didn't quite finish so it's a work in progress.  Takes longer than you think because there is a lot of cutting to be done. 

I helped when needed, mostly getting him things so he didn't have to climb up and down on the ladder.  I spent some time picking up dead fall and stacking it up on the natural fence I'm making.

I also walked around on the trails just enjoying the pretty day.

This evening will be the usual.  A little TV, ice cream, and knitting for me. 
It's been a good day. : )

Hope your day was sunny and bright.
happyone : )

Remember fear is a bluffer,

it boasts more than what it can really do.

Call its bluff, 

and it will disappear.

~ Richard Daly

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Happy Trails

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The temperature was 44 degrees again this morning and I watched the sun come up and then stay out in a pretty blue sky, though at first there was some patches of fog here and there.

I walked the Farm Loop and two times around the loop by the ball park and then home.

I saw Joyce walking to get her cup of coffee.  She was wearing her green day glow vest and could be easily seen.  I've started wearing my day glow green sweatshirt so I too can be seen better.  Ken suggested I wear that instead of my orange.

Stopped to talk to Farmer Bill.  We love these cool crisp mornings.
I saw 4 deer running in the field and another 2 in the wooded area.  Spotted some wild turkeys too.  Had to zoom in to get a picture before they ran back into the woods.  Sorry for the poor quality of the picture.

I walked 5.6 miles.

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Went up to Happy Trails today.  Ken painted this sign on a nice flat rock and put it at the bottom of the driveway.  I thought he did a great job on free hand painting the letters.  Looks like he used a stencil.

We worked on painting the old decking boards and nailing them up on the porch/balcony. 

Painted underneath too.  Picture is kind of washed out.

I went for a walk down one of the trails.

It was a good day at HT. 

Hope your day was a happy one.
happyone : )

 Do it or don't.

It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.

~ Henry Rollins

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Looked up both wild asters and Michaelmas daisies and they both look like the flowers on yesterday's post.  Just must be called different names here and in England.  Thanks Kim, Robin, Kerri, and Ruta for identifying them for me. : )