2026
This spring Willy turns 11 and Luna, 3
January 18: Another year, another winter. I bought an EGO snow blower for this winter. Sold the old one for $50. The new one is not self-propelled, a point that escaped me when ordering online. It did not occur to me that a snowblower COULD NOT be self-propelled. It's ok, gotta push more but it only weighs 50 lbs and I'm getting used to it.
January 25-26: This is for real.
Over a foot and still falling.
After snowblowing and shoveling. Snowblower in front of truck.
March 7: A wee bit of exitement today--a chimney fire at Bishops: two pickups, then one fire truck then another pickup then the rescue squad, then another fire truck and another pickup. Then came Nancy. Dean was home. The whole shebang lasted 1/2 hour.
May 18-22: For days, cement trucks have been delivering cement to the property of Mike Merrow. Dump trucks loaded with dirt or gravel or stone or all of that have been up and down the road for days as well. Mike is planning to build vacation cottages. Yikes!!
May 23: I mowed Rozh's lawn this morning and a few hours later, her brother and his wife turned up and appeared to be mystified by the mown lawn. It looked like he expected to be doing that.
May 26: These two frogs sat staring up at the plastic heron like adoring fans. Photo taken with phone in zoom mode so it sucks. 
June 12: This is the peony I got from Ginny 2 years ago.
June 28: I stained the boards on my back yard bench.
June 28: Tom hleped me install the first of the 3 fence posts I need to build a privacy fence. The old one blew down. Hopefully tomorrow I can pour the concrete.
Picked up this storage closet at a yard sale
hoping it would house my snowblower.
and it fits perfectly!
July 29: A memorable day. New kitty Toulouse (left) has joined the household. He is 5 1/2 weeks old, born June 18th. Willy ignores him and Luna hisses and runs away. All good and normal. I believe he will grow up to look like Popo. I got first pick in the litter of 4. He was the only one with white paws.
July 29: I returned home with the kitten and soon after came a hurricane force storm. It had been raining for days and then the wind. I was terrorized all day. The massive cherry tree came down across the brook. I have a new bridge for animal crossing. Lots of clean up to do. A large sumac on the stream bank also uprooted and fell. I had hoped to cut that one so all good.
He fits in my hand.August 6: Google Street View car just drove by.
A 10 minute assault on my crocs and then he passes out.
August 22: Scrap run, Almost all the coppper I had is gone--saved just a few choice pieces.
First time outside and the bonding begins.
6 August: He falls asleep anywhere and in any position