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After some rain over the weekend we are back to outstanding weather with temps in the 70's every day and clear sunny skies to really get the tree growing. We had to go slow this week as my legs are getting pretty bad and I fell once already. But, we schedule what we plan to get done for that day and everything after that is a bonus. Today we filled the four raised beds in the gardsen across the pond and we plant most of the beds tomorrow so we will still have fresh veggies for this summer and we already have peaches, necterines, sweet cherries, and blue/black berries growing on our fruit trees and bushes. I cannot wait to taste them later this year.

We also had some new neighbors (human this time!) stop by today and we stop by their place just up the private road from us. Its alittle sad as they had a fire burn them out not long ago and they are living in tents without a strong roof over them. So we hope to help them out as best we can to get them on their feet. The little girl is as cute as a button and very friend so her and Fran got along fine! It will be nice to have more neighbors out here in the boonies!

I have pictures to post coming up! Here is a new family member, his name is Audie Murphy and he is a Min Pin that we took in from the local shelter. Audie and I are the best of buds and he was hunting tiny frogs next to the pond in this photo.

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The weather here has been beautiful and sunny for nearly a week so the wife and I have been busy buying garden soil, fruit trees, and building the raised beds for the veggies that we hope to get planted thisa weeken or so. It is still awesome to walk ovder the dam and come within inches of the beaver as he suns himself on the shore. And we get a big kick out of the loud "pop-splash" sound of the beaver issuing his warning using his tail. But he is also pretty laid back as the dogs don't seem to bvug him too much.

We put up our big 20 foot by 10 foot portable building next to the dog kennel and we plan to use it for a storage/workshop for now. With the big generator running just up the hill we have all the power we could want and are already looking into wiring up the cabins for a power.

To say that we are busy is somewhat of an understatement as thew wife and I are both suffering from thje amount of work we have completed so far. And we are praying for rain as the pond is down nearly two feet since the last one and we have planned on using pond water to water the garden. Lacking that we would have to bring in water and install a large water tank. Fingers crossed!

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We sometimes forget how close to nature we really are until they show up right in your front yard. We had been hearing splashes in the fish pond for a few days but we thought it was the big bull frog so imagine our surprise when we photographed this little guy yesterday!

Meet the Beav!!!

Sprucing up before Dinner!!

Taking in some rays before lunch!



So we see that nature finds a way to survive as the nearest body of water is miles away from here and we have no plans on trying to move this one. So just call them the BEAV!!!