Japanese Maples

 Figured since my health issues made me give up my horses, would start collecting trees.  

My young Japanese maples showing some color.  

Couple of the local honeysuckle vines added to the mix. All will be put in the garage for the winter this weekend.

They will be the foundation of my little Japanese Maple garden in the future.

Archery

 To be honest, I was going to give up doing the family Blog.  Most of the family is on FB but not all.

Long story short, have a lot of things going on in my life, a lot of them not great but will never give up. 

Was going to do Archery One morning no matter what.

Had to adjust for the motor tremors, ignore the serious pain I had when the arrow launched across that left knuckle that has some weird bony growth on it. 

 The plus of me dropping a cinder block on that left hand years ago, makes it lock and impossible to drop things. LOL...  so I could not let go of the bow when shooting.

The handy dandy walker was good for carrying my equipment around.

Despite the challenges I am not going to give Archery up and it felt so very good being out and somewhat active !!!!! 

Yes, all that bruising was just from the arrow resting and launching off my left hand while wearing a glove. 
 Will not give up my Archery, so I ignore the pain and
keep going. 

Mongolian Horse bow ~

Finally was able to restring my Mongolian Horse bow.
Was a bit of a challenge but I refuse to give up my Archery. 
I have to use a lighter bow and instead of shooting a

 100 yards, I now shoot 20 yards.
Will keep doing it no matter what.



This is the  all weather outside target my DH built for me,
so I do not have to set it up every day.

Icelandic Horse Dream ~

I sooo want to do this and have another Icelandic horse.

 
Iceland by Horseback from Archerfish Productions on Vimeo.

Live ~

Storm Clouds ~

Finally got around to getting these photos off my camera. One of the Storms last month, yes, there was a little bit of rotation, there but thankfully nothing came of it.

Almost looked like a huge blanket being pulled over the sky.

Humidity level was really high, hard to keep the lens from fogging up. Wasn't willing to stay out there for the lens to adjust.

Finally able to Mow~

Finally cooled off enough I could work on mowing some of the pastures and just around the house.  

Main sheep/goat aka used to be Icelandic horse pasture, 

grass was a good 2'+ tall in areas.

iphone doesn't take the best photos when on the tractor 

because it shakes so much. 

Really need to go out there with my better camera.

Last two hair sheep and two wether goats in this pasture.

To much grass for them to keep up with.