Which is worse, a lot of rain or snow?

 This is the driveway looking uo from my rental house, we drove down this morning to find the brook was overflowing over the driveway

 
 Ray unplugged it so it went under the driveway through the pipe

House for rent- anyone want to move in?

 Kitchen in the midst of an overhaul of appliances. They were pretty old so we decided to get new ones.  Ray scored and got a new stove, fridge and dishwasher for $1200 for all three

 Living room with woodstove hookup

 The kitchen dining area

 One of the bedrooms

 Another shot of the living room

 The other bedroom

 The same other bedroom, different view showing the high ceilings

 Washer and dryer, to the left is the bathroom.  This is off the kitchen dining area

 Bathroom

 bathroom again

 OK here is the YUK!  This was behind the fridge.  Did anyone ever clean?  The rest of the place was pretty dirty but this is just plain nasty!

Another view of YUK  This was under the stove.

New Cell phone proposed location

 To the left behind that road sign is the hunt club location that they want to put a cell phone tower.  They say it will be 140 feet back from the road and 190 feet  high

 The driveway entrance to the hunt club.   Notice they have been there since 1940?  I didn't know they were there that long.

 The road looking down to hunt club.  It is on the right side right before the road comes to an end.  Up after the road ends, there is a hiking trail (Blue Trail) where we used to ride our horses because the trail eventually leads back to our part of town which is about 5 miles from this location if you went by road

 Looking down the road again, hunt club is on the right.  Do you think a cell tower would be able to be seen?

 Another view of the road

The beginning of the road where the tower is supposed to go, up over that crest in the road and then down a hill.  I have verizon service.  At & T are the ones that want this tower because they have poor service.  My service works great.  I read somewhere that AT & T has received the most complaints about service and when we asked them at the last meeting why Verizon works and thiers does not, all they could say was they can't comment on another carrier.  Hmmmm,  maybe they just neen better equipment?  I am being bombarded by some people about supporting this tower,  I don't support or not support it really, I don't know what to do, we need service for emergencies but I don't think a tower would solve it but I don't see how it will be even seen from this location, I think AT & T just needs to beef up what they have on the other towers just like Verizon.  What do you all think?

Eggs for sale

Tell me honestly what do you think, Chicken too small?  Words too small on top, I just realized it now it is bigger on bottom.  I am going to paint the other side too so it can be seen on both sides hanging from a hook on a tree

Rug Hooking and a new sign

 I am Almost done with this rug.  Been ignoring it lately so I need to sit down and just finish it

 Beginning of a sign request I had for the kid that I made a sign for last year.  He sells his own eggs for $2 a dozen. 

I found a nice piece of wood at home depot for $5 to make the sign out of.  I forgot to take a picture before I painted it but I don't think I could have even attempted to make a sign of this size for that price.  It was well worth the money to have it already cut and sanded so nice.

Updated work picture

We took a new picture for our office to update the picture we had here since a few people are no longer here -Cheryl :( being one of them, but she did come visit us yesterday, that was fun! thanks for coming in to see us

I'm Baaack

Ok I paid the $5 bucks and I can upload pictures again.  apparently, it takes longer than 30 seconds because I can't upload a picture yet.  I'll try later.  I did update the other Hartland Blog too

I made a new blog

http://kris-hartlandhappenings.blogspot.com/

Here it is.  What I originally wanted to put on my old blog this morning that got me all fired up. 

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I was adding pictures this morning, and I had about 8 done, was moving on to the last one and I get this message.  Sorry but I am not purchasing more space on my FREE blog!

Ok I'm crazy

I haven't even finished the other rug hook I started and I bought another kit, this one is a little smaller but I just couldn't help to start it because I also got a new hook and it's so much easier to use and does not hurt my hand like my other one does.

Various bird visitors today

Woodpecker

Nuthatch

Starling or is this a grackle?

Tufted Titmouse

Goldfinch

Woodpecker

What?

This poor Cardinal lost his tail feathers.  Not sure what happened to him but he spends a lot of time at my feeders.

Punch Rug vs. Rug Hook

 The left side is a punch rug and the right is a rug hook.  This is the finished side, so for rug hook, you are working on this side, pulling the wool from the back with a hook

When rug punching, you work on this side, punching the yarn through to the other side with a giant needle type tool, so when you are done, you flip over to see your work.  I should have taken a picture of the tools but I forgot.... next time

Rug hooking and sleeping beauties

What a life!

More of rug hooking

 I got a few more squares done last night and the night before. 

 Harley likes my new chair and likes to sit on all my stuff that I am working on or sit on me but he gets in my way and I have to push him off.  So he spent the night outside last night and came in to snuggie up in my wool

 Leave me alone already!

 

Rug Hooking

I have been making punch rugs and punch needle but I was never really interested or good at rug hooking.  I even took a class before, I was pretty bad at it too.  Embarrassing to me bad!  My project in the class looked like a 4 year old did it.  So I put my stuff away and just dreamed some day I could take this hobby up again and make something nicer. 

I found a nice lady on Ebay that sells rug hooking kits, all the wool, cut, the pattern on the burlap and a full page color picture as a guide

 
This is how far I got last night.  It seems this may take me a long time to finish this, I bought a pretty big rug
 
This is the back side.  Rug hooking is opposite of rug punch, you work on the right side in hooking and you work on the wrong side on punch needle
 
Looks like a pile of colorful spaghetti!  This is the wool all cut and read to be hooked into the rug