I love planting -- sure hope plants love growing!

I love planting — sure hope plants love growing!

Lots of digging, raking, hauling horse manure, and watering — Lets see what we get in a week — I will keep you all posted.

OH!! Let me tell you what Grandpa wrote in 1903 June 8: “Made 22 props and plowed for buckwheat in forenoon. took props to Hooversville in afternoon”  (Props are like fence posts used in old coal mines to prop up the mine roof as miners dug the mine shaft and removed the coal)

Diversity accepted - or - lets isolate them from the rest of our community?

Diversity accepted – or – lets escort them back to their own community?  — you decide!

Serenity before the trail ride.
Serenity before the trail ride.

Garden flowers planted – Seventy five of them — It is time to wake up this horse and go for a trail ride.

On the ride we discover and study an old Finnish Home stead.

On the ride we ride by and study an old Finnish Homestead.

Behind me – the photographer is the first log building  — the Sauna which the Fin’s lived in while building this home — so I am told by the rider and owner on the horse in the background.

Shot from the front -- or -- back camera of the iPhone - self inflicted, anyway!Shot from the front — or — back camera of the iPhone – self inflicted self portrait.

After a few hours on the trail, it is time for Perla to eat and for me to drink a beer on the bunk house porch with friends.

Serenity just before sunset.

Serenity just before sunset.

The serenity of a sunset canoe ride before read and sleep time.

The serenity of a sunset canoe ride before read and sleep time.

That is pretty much a typical day around here — well not really — each day has some new experience — I will keep those secret until I write and post new photos4939691