Cats enjoying life~

A New fun toy for the Cats of the house, a giant bed!
Great place to hide, bounce around, be stealthy when needed and of course those rare naps.

Mia, giving me one of those sleepy looks. As I disturbed her nap, when trying to take photographs. This look could also be perceived as....

"Sigh".... humans.. can't live with them, can't live with out them... what is a cat to do?

Christmas is just right around the corner!

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Rain is here!

Fall is finally here and the rain has come but with it arrives the beautiful Rainbows!
We really need the rain and plants love it.
Still have some tomatoes on the vine, not quite ripe and will need to bring them in today, to sit on the window sill. Other wise they will just rot.
Time to get the potted house plants I keep out during the summer, clean them up and bring them in.
Just so much to do before the first frost but the cooler weather is welcome.

Want to play?

American Made Measuring Cup Test

This is the new set of measuring cups and spoons. Took me a little longer to do this than planned. The Test was," does the cups and spoons measure out true"? Had to make bread this morning so here is what I found.
You can see the flour in the very old measuring cup. One that was made back before everything came from China.
Here is the same flour, moved over to the new Measuring cup. Was a bit tricky to get all the flour in the cup but I managed it. I leveled it off and it did measure true.
Below is another angle so you can see.
So I highly recommend these folks if you want good American Made measuring cups and spoons.
You can see with the spoon handles below that they are signed by the Artist, dated with the year and tells you what wood they used.

Start of Fall

Now I have to admit that Pacific NW doesn't have the beautiful Autumn colors that NE has but this isn't to shabby.
This is a local school over on the other side of the Columbia River. Nice old school that has a lot of character, beautiful grounds and trees.
An Old Oak tree..... DH and I really like this tree. Do not see them this large or old now a days.

The Rose garden

When we moved to this farm there were a few old and not so healthy rose bushes of painfully bright colors. Kid you not, so bright I could see them "without" my glasses from across the Farm! Not what I would normally buy but hey,, they came with the Farm, might as well nurse them back to health.

We have moved many of them, to the area where I decided to have a Rose Garden.

Last year I wanted to add some softer color Roses to help tone down the wild colored ones already here. I ordered them last spring and had them arrive the first week of Sept. That way I would not have to worry about watering them or the stress that could weaken them because of the hot summer days.

Those New Roses are above.

Some where bought for color or smell, most will make good cutting flowers for the house.

The new Rose garden area is a work in progress, bit rough around the edges but in time will be able to have it looking like I want it to.

Just posted the photos of the blooms of these flowers. Hopefully next spring things will look good enough, I will post a picture of the new Rose garden.