Peek Inside My Life, Photos

hollydolly said:
Did you feed him ? :D whenever wild animals come onto our property and seem to be tame.. we always feed or water them..
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Yes, I certainly did! Plus ducks like to eat bugs and even ticks, they are really good for your yard. I would have adopted him in a minute but my soon-to-be x would not let me keep him. I was not happy with for a long time over that. Here he is sharing his supper with him.

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Since my property was just an acre, I did not have a pasture for my horses. But I had a big yard that I was able to tie it off with baling twine. Just one line when I only had the two horses, but when I got Tawny, she would get out by going under it. So had to start putting two strands up. At that time I only had the wood garden beds at the side of the house. But after I got the rock ones, had to stop letting them out. These girls are too lively to be in my garden.

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Not a good picture of me, but this is the office I worked in during the late seventies. Endicott-Johnson Corp, better knows as EJ's. This was the Maintenance office and I worked for 6 engineers who designed buildings and remodels of present buildings. I left in 1979 to get married. No computers there!

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My kitten, Cricket, who was a Tortoiseshell Siamese as a baby and then a few months later her coloring started taking hold. Sadly, I lost her because someone left a door open when I was not home and she was never found though I looked and looked.

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Chichi is Sonny's (my boyfriend) dog but actually was his mother's dog. When she died she asked him to take her and her three parrots. He did and treats them like they were his. He loves his critters more than himself. I had to prove myself t win over Chichi but I did pretty quickly. She likes to get on my lap when I am there.

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I lived for the first eight years with a Servel gas refrigerator hooked up to small gas grill propane tanks. If it ran out, the smell would wake me right up. Many times a puddle of water would be running from the refrigerator across the floor to right under my wood cook stove (RUST!!). Even at 3:00 AM, I'd have to go outside with a pipe wrench to unhook the empty tank to hook up a new one. I hated it.........especially in the cold winter and the hook up valve would be frozen!! UGH! After my husband had insulated our kitchen, the propane odor was making me sick. Nobody else, Just me. (now I know I have Multiple Chemical Sensitivity) So we lived for 6 years after that with NO refrigeration and I do not recommend it for anybody!!!

We saved our money to buy this. The solar refrigerator made by Sundanzer. It did not need an inverter. It is 12 volt and was an excellent choice. No freezer but at that point, I did not care. Cold food! So excited when I got this. It is in the pantry so the wood stove heat would not affect it. In winter, it never ran,,,,,,,,not even once. Ran a lot in summer but we had plenty of sun with the solar panels putting out more electric than we used.

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Here it is opened.

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After having to shop in grocery stores for three years now, I can only dream of my beautiful garden. My plants gave me so much good food. I canned it and we lived on it all winter. I just didn't have it in me to keep doing it. All organic and even though the so called "professionals/experts" will tell you that certain foods cannot be canned........like squash and zucchini......I canned them every year and they were NEVER soft and mushy. You just have to know how to do it.

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Just before the pandemic broke, my wife and I were at a vintage festival, she came across an original pair of roundel spectacles, wonderful. My optician made my prescription lenses and fitted them into the frames, a phone call later, I went to collect them.

My mode of dress is something that provokes the odd comment or two, so when my optician said Major Toht, when I posed in my new glasses, it didn't surprise me. But I was impressed that the character, Major Toht, as portrayed by the late Ronald Lacey, was known to my optician. Toht is the sinister Gestapo Nazi in the, Indiana Jones, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," movie.
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This is a picture I came across in my chore of saving photos from one external hard drive to another. 2015. A few months after Rabbit became my "house rabbit" and he adapted easily. From the looks of his legs, it looks like the one that got stepped on by my horse had completely healed. To this day, he had never favored it.

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When we first moved here, my husband cleared this piece of land because HE BADLY wanted horses. He had grown up with them and that was our plan. So he was clearing an area for them while trying to build a barn at the same time. This is why fixing up the house was not a priority for him. My brother always has had a horse but I was not that experienced around them. I always loved them though. This is a picture taken of what it was looking like as he cleared it. I didn't take a lot of pictures because back then I did not have digital camera.

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The area for the horses looked like this before he removed the stumps and finished the barn. At that time we brought two horses, Georgie Girl and Dark Shadow home. May 13, 1999. I remember the date because it is my Daddy's birthday.
 
On May 19, 1999, we were outside in the yard putting up a clothesline. All of a sudden a breeze came up and it started to sprinkle. So we went in the house and I made us some lunch. Before I was done, a terrific wind came up and it started pouring a bit of hail too. It was horrible to watch because our horses were out there in it and trees (BIG ones) were falling over like matchsticks! I was sure our girls were dead or badly hurt with a tree on them.

As soon as it was over this is what we saw...................

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