The new nail trimmers

The other day when I was shopping on Amazon I discovered this neat tool that grinds dogs nails. Austin has been clicking around our floors for a long time. I trim his nails but have sometimes gone too short and then they bleed. I ended up buying the trimmer and some stiptic powder to use "just in case". I'll post the results!

Deer Hunting

Well John has been gearing up for deer season for a long time...saving his time for vacation days, sighting in the gun etc. Day 1 was a miserable rainy, raw day. He was sitting in his hunting blind most of the morning down the road in Robin and Jerry's meadow watching several doe. While eating his lunch he looked out and a nice 8 pointer stood up. Apparently he had been bedded down with the girls the whole time. We saw him in my pasture the day before deer season too. Very nice deer and now he is in the freezer. (That's another story, we had to buy another freezer as we didn't have enough room! Our old freezer was a small chest, not frost free so we ended up getting an upright frost free from Sears that will be arriving on Monday. (I say arriving, but we have to pick it up!)

Here are some pictures...I wish someone had put the poor deer's tongue back in his mouth!

October 20th already!

Lunch at Applebee's after our hike.
At the base of the mountainThe forest road

Molly's senior picture
Apples!
More Molly pic's

Well it's been a while! We've had a busy fall, lots of rain still. We did get to pick apples at Champlain Orchards which is a yearly tradition. Made a few batches of Apple crisp that were yummy. Molly's been on top of the college application process. She's submitted everything early decision so now she can sit back and wait. She still really likes Colby Sawyer the best. Mass. College of Pharmacy and Science called her tonight. Her computer died on Sunday. Luckily she printed out most of her AP Bio report. Not sure what's wrong, it won't boot up, just an error message...funny that she just did her updates the day before. Anyway we are headed to Tom's tomorrow to drop everything off and see if he can diagnose the problem. She really would prefer a mac!

Our friend Jerry died suddenly a few weeks ago. He and his wife own the stone house down the road. So sad, so very young, only in his 50's. They had a service on Saturday and about 80 people came.

I had a nice walk with Austin this morning and a great ride with Kacee today. The weather has been very chilly, about 30 in the morning with a good frost. We hiked last week and it poured half way up the mountain, then turned to sleet and snow. I'll post a few pictures.

Hope everyone is well, take care!!

Fishing on Champlain

My bass
The Northern Pike


Wednesday we decided to get the boat out...it's been so rainy that we really haven't been fishing much all summer. We went on Champlain from the landing and headed north. We ended up trolling near Munger Brook and I caught two mammoth fish. One large mouth bass and one 35" Northern Pike. We couldn't find the fish scale so not sure how much they weighed but I'll attach some photos and a cute video too. The best part was that I was using the cheap Zebco reel and according to John it only had 4 lb. test. The Northern was hooked in the side of it's mouth so it didn't bite off the hook. So many times I thought I was going to loose it. Sometimes it pulled so hard that I thought it was going to pull the rod out of my hands! (The whole time John's telling me how to bring it in and not to loose it!) We got the bass up on the boat and out of the net and it almost jumped back in but John saved it! It was a great day!

Vacation time...

Kacee and I venturing out on a ride.

The "Pug Hole"
First day photo
First day photo
Well I ended up having another week off! It has been awesome weather, sunny, cool and perfect for riding. Monday Kacee and I went to Saetta's driveway and then back around by Grant's. She was very good and we both had fun. (Only a couple of stubborn moments) Molly started back at school...she's a senior this year. Lot's of hard classes, she actually has a study hall her last period and is able to leave school and come home at 2:15. She gets more done at home where it's quiet. She had her first AP Bio test today.

More pictures!

Here are some pictures!