The Key

February 26, 2013February 26, 201330 Comments

I haven’t been writing lately and I have been missing it! I much prefer a prompt that requires me to write creatively over many of the prompts that require the topic to be about me. After all, you get enough of that here on my blog! Today’s 100 Word Challenge for Grownups was a picture prompt. Perfect!

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The Key

Waking before everyone, Laura quietly dressed, and went outside. This morning’s fog was a freezing surprise! Walking across the lawn, she stopped to look back at the shrouded house and noticed her footprints outlined in the frosty grass. Smiling she turned to go and spied a little key. Picking it up she continued on to the big tree where she could be alone in the mist. Leaning against the trunk she felt it; a keyhole. Curious, she thought, I never saw that before. She put the key in and turned…

“Snick” A door opened revealing a staircase.

She went up.

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So now, just for fun, it is your turn!

What happened next?

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PLEASE NOTE: I have decided not to make comments on your entries, because this is just for fun and I don’t want anyone to feel intimidated!

ENJOY! 😉

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The next steps taken

February 22, 2013February 22, 201346 Comments

We have applied for the loan, paid for the appraisal of our home, made an offer on the Appalachian hills Farmlet, are waiting for the appraiser to call and schedule, and I am not sleeping!

I can’t stand the suspense and I am well and truly worn out. I have tried all my best tricks to get to sleep, but it is not working.

My best sleeping tricks:

Turn on Debussy low when going to bed. (normally this works)
When number one does not work then get up and drink camomile tea while reading the *LOTR. Usually this always works!

Not this time.

“Dear three AM, we have got to stop meeting this way. I would much rather sleep with you.” ~ anonymous ~

What works for you when you can’t sleep at night?

ZzZzZ

*LOTR: The Lord of the Rings

Hoo-Boy with pictures: think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts… (pixilatedtoo.wordpress.com)
Z is for Zephyr – Debussy’s Zephyr (notesfromapianist.wordpress.com)

This and that.

February 19, 201325 Comments

The application for the mortgage is in. Now we wait.

The chickens are back to laying again!

Fresh eggs anyone?

(!!!)

Late last week it got down to about 23 degrees overnight. It has taken me five years of living here to figure out to fill the water buckets the night before, and then just break the ice the next morning! WAY easier than hauling three gallon water buckets from the bathroom out to the goose run.

Recently, my friend Lori of Day by Day the Farm Girl Way wrote a post about how water freezes and its delicate nature HERE

Well, there is certainly nothing delicate about these 3 x 3 inch quite pointy formations, now is there? 😉

How did that happen?

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Polly has a secret. Shhh…

And Frellnick is a very overprotective father to be!

He looks so threatening, doesn’t he? But he is all show with me. Georgie on the other hand has been getting his ‘tail feathers’ whupped this past week.

Sadly, I have had to separate them again. 😦

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In the meantime, I have finally calmed down from the excitement of new Farmlet buying. So now I wait for a house appraisal, thoroughly CLEAN the aforementioned house in preparation for a very special visitor (who flies in for a weeks stay next month) and watch for Polly to begin setting in earnest!

So much is happening over the next four weeks!

Don’t you agree?

Why a water bucket can make you think (sharvin101.wordpress.com)

Hoo-Boy with pictures: think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts…

February 17, 201350 Comments

Today we went to look at a little place in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. It is small, but just right for the critters of the Farmlet because it is just over two acres which is way more than they have now! The house that sits on the land is just right for a couple thinking of retirement. It is cozy, has a spare room for visitors, a basement and a screened back porch for enjoying the day, or evening, without being eaten by mosquitoes.

If you came for a visit…

(click the first photograph to open the carousel)

: We might sit on the porch swing and look into the valley while we visited.

: On the way to the upper paddock I might tell you my plans to restore the little barn and make it worthy to house animals again.

: And standing under the walnut tree we would look out over the hills and vales and think of how beautiful it will be here in spring.

: I might share with you my desire to put to rights the bird houses and feeders here and my plans to move the herb gardens in to share space with the daffodils.

: And a visit wouldn’t be any fun at all if I didn’t introduce you to my new neighhh-bor the pigmy pony

: or the gaggle of geese living on the big pond next door!

: However, a visit to the new Farmlet rests on financing a loan, selling (or renting) of the old Farmlet, and the acceptance of our offer on this possible new home.