Some new ornaments....

This first one, the one on top is my own design. Cowboy Santa. He is not quite finished yet. He needs his snow like the bottom Santa. We have been having problems with our well, so I wasnt able to finish him because I have no water to clean up with. (its not the well pump, thank goodness!! there is a 1700gal holding tank and one of the float switches quit, then we dont think they hooked it up correctly, so they are supposed to be back out today. Second night without water this week.)

 The bottom Santa, above, is one of my favorites. I am making sure to finish the backs nicely too.

There are all kinds in this pic, the Angel, the reindeer toys, the sled, and the dishes. These dish ones are painted on antique doll plates that we found while cleaning out the attic. I researched some and they are not worth anything, so I tole painted on them. They were solid aluminum doll plates, probably from the '40s ? I believe they were my Mother in-laws when she was a girl. I will put a small hole in the top to hang them with. I finally received my wood order! So I have more projects to work on!! I have one more shipment on its way with some 12 inch memo clips!! and a pattern for them, Santa and reindeer!! Cute cute cute!!! I love doing Santa's, and the more I am doing the better they are coming out!

Sunday stills....Birds

I took these pics on Friday, looking for a Sunday Stills post!!! I spotted these Three Amigos when I was walking back from the barn. They were squawking at me! I ran in and grabbed my camera and was able to get one shot before the left two flew off!! They were way up in the top of this fir tree, its probably about 40 feet tall. They are Crows.

And these little guys! I hadnt realized that Hummingbirds dont always migrate in the Winter. I have been feeding these all season!! They still fight and carry on and chase each other around. Cant tell if its a male or female, dont know either if they have a Winter plumage. I believe they are Rufus Hummingbirds, I havnt seen the Annas that are usually around all Summer, they are much bigger. They are draining the feeder about every two weeks.

So there are my Sunday stills for this week!!

Snow, and now lots and lots of rain! Oh Boy!

This would be our lower field today. And all the "standing" water, well its moving as fast as it can given where it has to drain.

 Emma on her island again!

 Here is the view from by the horse trough. On the far right, the water is running over the driveway, because the culvert is not big enough to channel all the water.

Silly pony, sometimes I think she wants to be a duck. I would hope I dont have any problems with crossing water on a trail ride!!!

 She is pretty cute though! LOL

 She could go across to that area on the far side of her and be out of the water, but she always stands here. She has her choice, to be in a nice dry stall or out here, sometimes I lock her in so she dries out, but that makes her mad!

 Surrounded by water, lots of water!!!

 All that water has to go through our field, and across the neighbors and through this culvert, and into the Little Washougal River. The River is behind that house.

 The white water is just to the right of the culvert, which is under water, That is all the water just coming off of the road. We are supposed to get rain for the next 7 days! It should settle down quick if we get some dry spells. The water usually drains off pretty quickly.  Nuzz Muzz I wish I could send you some!!

Someone wrecked out here a couple weeks ago and took out the yellow anchor wires in the photo above and hit the telephone pole, they had to replace the pole. Hubby was out BBQing and heard it, it was to dark to see what happened, but you sure could hear it!

Snow, and horsie snow angel!!!

Well in all this Winter happenings, we ended up with about 4 inches of snow. It is now 3 inches of wet wet slush. Yeck!!

 Listened to the snow sliding off of the roof all morning, started around 5AM. Our House in an A frame, very steep roof.

 All the trees and these poor Rhodies were all weighted down by the wet snow.

 Went out to clean stalls and feed around 4:30 tonight.

 Fat old mare LOL

 Easy is up to something! I grabbed my camera quick, cuz you know I took it out to do chores!!

 eh oh she is circling!!

 And down she goes!! We are going to get a horsie snow angel!!!

 She didnt go all the way over! LOL

 I thought for sure that she was just going to make a big puddle where she layed.

 And the shake.

 Silly old girl!!

 Well a very muddy snow angel!! Surprisingly she didnt have much more mud on her!

And they are all snug in the stalls with their dinner.

 They all love their Beet pulp.

 Now all this water has to go somewhere, the lower field in filling up!

 The house.

 These grey skies look like it could rain again anytime!

Winter is here. I hope it decides to leave again soon!!! But, it is January.

Snow, really?

Emma standing out in the "snow" LOL The news stations have been hyping this up so much! Thats all they have been talking about, "snow is sticking" its the end of the world. Enough already!!

On another note, its funny how different settings on the camera show the snow coming down...

 Or not so much. Miss Emma is back to her normal piggy self too!

 Here are the first batch of memo clips. I did add a mouth to the snowman, because the first three people I showed them to, didnt know what he was doing, LOL. Thought his nose was a hat! He turned out really cute and is my favorite so far.

 Waiting to get sealer sprayed on them. I like these Santa stars! And a different Santa on the memo clips.