My old AOL Journal is still alive !

My old AOL Journal successfully transferred although I am afraid my many AOL Home pages are gone forever. I doubt I would ever take time to make them again and I had no luck at all in trying to move them.

Some of them had several thousand hits but but after AOL changed the software I had used to make most of them, it was impossible to upgrade and remove non-working links so I guess I will print out some of the best ones for my scrapbooks and just forget them...it was great fun while it lasted however.

Today is dreary and nasty, we now have the wood furnace going and a fire in the kitchen stove as well...these old rambling houses were built long before central heating came into use so we have to heat both ends and hope some of the heat drifts into the middle and offside rooms. If not, well, we can always shut the doors on a couple of them on the worst days.

I have been doing a little Halloween decorating, not as much as usual but we have no trick or treaters anymore, they have all grown up and gone away and most of the neighboring places are owned by CITY PEOPLE who just come up to shoot guns, kill stuff and ride those noisy four-wheelers and snomobiles all over everyone's property. some of them are nice and some are awful!

Need to work in the back room and the old office which in now an "everything room"..see you later!

Mixed Up Mess!

After finally trying for a couple of hours last evening to move my AOL Journal over to Blogger I finally got it to move. Great! this AM, I tried to post but had to go through all kinds of tactics including using IE tools to get to enable java script and a bunch of other things I am not sure I want on here.

Now is the time to see if I can get this working right before I go back our and try to catch some SUNSHINE so here goes...

Just Moved my AOL Journal

AOL is closing it's Journal and Hometown pages as of the end of the month. I managed to move my Journal "The House on Long Hill" to Blogger, but am afraid my Hometown pages will end up being lost...might try to rescue some links and pictures for my Blogs on here. I had several pages, some of them had nearly 4,000 visitors and some only a few hundred, but I loved making them and feel sad that they are going.

We had a great vacation last month but now everything is winding down, gardens are nrearly finished, time to buy a couple of bushels and pick our own apples, the deer are standing on their hindlegs to get at them so only the high ones will be left.

We took a ride yesterday and I did get some pics of the beautiful scenery that people pay to come here and see...better to click and see them in a larger size to appreciate them!

I had a long day, will be back soon.

Gardentime

Time to report in I guess, I always vow to keep this journal up but as Willie Nelson sings, "Funny How Time Slips Away"

Right now we are in the midst of garden chores, if they can be called that..to me, planting, watering fertilizing and picking [both flowers and food] are anything but burdensome.

We have had the first broccoli and the little cucumbers will be ready next week, I see a tomato turning already and the flowers are gorgeous this summer. We have had horrible slug and snail problems but other than that every thing except the New Dawn rose looks great. The roses were just beautiful, but some pesky bug turned the leaves into lace curtains.

The deer have also been the usual problem but they are not as bad as some years, probably because I have been using Shake-away which has coyote and bobcat urine in the formula, and also instructed DH to make a late night pit stop around a few of the most vulnerable places.

Tomorrow night is a class reunion with friends and fun and good food, must find something to wear..nothing like waiting until the last minute!

Tags: deer control, roses, gardens, flowers,

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Back Home Again

Sunrise at Back Beach Rockport, Cape Ann, MA

We got up at 6AM to get to the beach just as it started to get light and before the tourists and dog walkers were out.

What a great trip..mostly sunny, not too hot and found some sea glass on a couple of days. took a trip to Marblehead and the beautiful day turned cloudy, windy and cold so we headed back north to Rockport but will try again next year..found the old Burial Hill with some of the earliest graves in New England and managed to get a few decent photos, see below.

 

Another Death Head marker, these are very old, mid 17th century.

 

View of stones, homes and Atlantic harbor at Marblehead from up on the Burial ground.

And of course, I had to add a flower box from Mt Pleasant in Rockport..the flowers are unreal out there, always a million beauty spots to enjoy.

 

Now I have to try to lose the 2# I gained from those fantastic breakfasts at our B and B and fish sandwiches from fish caught the same day..and the best fries I have EVER eaten...good thing we only stayed 4 days!!!

Tags: Rockport Ma, old cemetery, Cape Ann, window box, flowers, Marblehead

Too Darn Hot!

This weather is just too much! Too much heat, too much humidity too much sitting around waiting for it to cool off.

However, complaining won't change it and so I will get on with life. My patio garden is full and I still have a ton of things to plant.Found a great sale after I thought I was about done and brought home about 4or 5 more flats, mostly annuals that need to get into containers post haste!

I try to go out early in the morning while it is cooler but it is so humid that I can only work a few minutes at a time, better than nothing I suppose. Hope Norm will get out and spray the tomatoes, I see signs of early blight and have been hoping for some really nice tomatoes this year. Had Swiss chard tonight along with sweet corn, sweet potatoes and strawberry mousse' Another veggie night...healthy and good!

Took Twerpie to Dr. West last week...the reason he seems to have lost his balance and is blundering into things is because he has lost almost all of his sight in the past couple of months. Poor little guy, he had such a miserable life before we got him and I had hoped to make his last years happy. Well, guess they will still be happy as he is always walked on a lead anyway and he can still smell the chicken in his food dish.

 I see now why he jumped off the couch into the coffee table about 4 times in the past few weeks! Muffin went along for the ride as she needed to be weighed..she has gained a whole ounce!!! Heart murmur no better but she seems to be doing well so far.

Tomorrow will be a fun day...Debbie and I are going to spend the day doing something nice, we just don't know what it will be. Antiquing, shopping, maybe drive up to Cooperstown or down to Binghamton and go to some favorite stores and of course EATsomething good and unhealthy somewhere along the way.

catch up later, still have things to do tonight.

 

Is it Spring AGAIN???

I can't believe it's Spring again. Not only that but it's almost Summer and I just finished getting the last of the Christmas things put away..where do the days go when they fly by so quickly? I always think of those old movies that indicated the passing of time by showing a calendar with the months flying off and swept into a passing wind.

I will be celebrating a birthday soon and some days lately have been beginning to feel my age. I hate growing old but know that the alternative is worse by far. Maybe someday I will feel that I have lived long enough but believe me, that is in the distant future [I hope].

The gardens are weedy and overgrown, I just can't seem to keep up with so many so this year [as in the past]  I have vowed to cut back and I fully intend to do so this time. I have several flats of annuals waiting, 3 new Clematis, a Honeysuckle vine and a flat of perennials and a couple of dozen tomato plants waiting to go in as soon as I'm sure the danger of frost is over. The past couple of nights have still been cold enough for most of them to freeze so I'll hold back on the most tender until after June 6. The pansies I planted in April are doing better now and I still have more to plant.  My best gardening fun this year so far has been taking digital pictures of whatever I can find that looks interesting and making new albums.

Feel tired tonight so "Good night, Journal", 'til next time.