Moths

The other day when we went to run errands in town, we saw some huge caterpillars. A man said he was pretty sure they were moths. So i looked them up on the internet and WOW they are. They were Cecropia Moth Caterpillars and now I REALLY wish we would have brought one home with us. They are awesome. HUGE!

Here is a link to another blog of a lady who has raised them. She has awesome pictures of them.
Caterpillars

And here for the most recent updates on this ladies blog about the moths coming out of the cocoons and pictures of the BEAUTIFUL moths!
HERE

Blackberries and Pet cemetary update.

So it seems we have Blackberries on our property. They are wild so they are covered in thorns. But MMM! They are really good and the kids love going out and picking them. They are growing wild in our field. We also found that we have an apple tree on the property too. It is making apples but doesn't look real great. We need to trim it and fertilize it.







I also had to update on the pet cemetery. I had earlier posted about Sylvester that we found. After taking a walk with some friends we found more cement markers. There are a total of 8 dead pets buried out on the back field. All are complete with names and cement markers. I would take a picture of it, but its 50% sweet and 50% weird. So we will skip the picture.

I also wanted to update that I put out the hummingbird feeder and our hummingbird has been coming back every morning. YEah!

Jehovah's Witness...really?

So we have lived out here on a gravel road, in the country for about 3 weeks. YOu would think that I would not have to deal with solicitors. Wrong. We have had 4. The first guy was the one selling the kids books that go door to door. Second, was the ice cream truck driving by. I was pretty surprised (and a little weirded out) with that one. Third was the seafood and steak guy. Fourth was the minivan full of Jehovah's Witness ladies that stopped by today.

What is the deal? They think we are stuck out here without ways to buy stuff. Hello! I have the internet! Why just last night I was ordering things for my daughters birthday. Yesterday in the mail I got a stack of yummy fabric I ordered from a group. So stop coming to my house trying to sell me things. I live in the country! GO AWAY. I need to make sure the dogs are outside and just not answer the door.

The blog has been a little lacking lately, but I have two new funny things to share later. Probably tomorrow.

CLOSURE!!!

As in the house closed. Praise the Lord! It only took 2 months. Seriously, the offer was on May 21st? or there about. Now on to this house. Luckily the appraisal is the only thing left to do really and it shouldn't be a problem. I say Shouldn't, not Won't. The appraiser is coming out tomorrow so we should know this week if everything is ok in that department.

We went out to eat tonight and then to Home Depot to buy our mower. We need a bigger rider for this property. We have had our trusty push mower since 2000. So we have got our good out of it. It still works and we will keep it as a backup or for small jobs.

Hummingbirds.

We had a hummingbird in the garage on Sunday. At first Massimo wasn't sure what it was. Then the bird slowed down enough for us to see him. I think the poor thing was really confused. Finally he/she found its was out. I put up a Hummingbird feeder and saw it again this morning investigating the feeder. I hope to see more of the little bird.



Here are a couple other good pictures of the family I got this weekend.

Kitchen!

We didn't have any blinds or curtains on the glass doors in our dining room. On one hand it is nice to have the view of the countryside, but the east morning sunny was blinding us at breakfast every morning. So i ordered some curtains from JCPenneys. I had to leave my beloved vintage tab curtains at my last house. So I went with the same style. The valance on the small window matches and I got a second one for the small window in the laundry room.

New hair style.

I had been feeling a little blah about my hair and hair color. I haven't done anything to it for a long time. So I went all out and got this done to it. I really like it. It is very fun!

Here lies Slyvester.

So this weekend we finally got around to exploring our entire piece of property. Now you might think we would have done this already. No. We didn't realize there was an opening in the treeline at the back. We also were more concerned with the house and inspections so we just hadn't done it yet. WOW!! We were missing out. If we would have walked the whole thing when we saw it the first time there would have been "no if ands or buts about it". Here are a couple cool photos I took of it.

We found a grave stone that was man made and must have been the previous owners dog or cat. It was really sweet. It was next to an old bench. Also to tell you how cool this property is. You can't see this back field and creek from the house. You have to walk down the path/road to get there.