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I know, you are wondering why I'm late with this post. The best excuse I can give you, it's all the husband's fault. Over a week ago he was hurt at work. He runs a loading dock. He got his right foot kind of smashed between to heavy carts. He thought be broke his leg when he called me from the emergency room. They told him he is a contusion. But he still can't walk on it. So since he can't get around very well I have to pick up the slack and help out with more things. Plus trying to pick up after him is a challenge enough too. He tries to do somethings but it's kind of hard and makes him very frustrated when he has to get my help. But it has not stopped him from going bow hunting. Too many nice bucks showing up on the trail camera. He did get one.  I guess it's a seven pointer. Notice the crutches in the background. Nice big body. So we will have some good meat for the freezer. There was one other thing that showed up on the camera that can not...

It's the first of the month once again and I'm back. I keep saying I'll post something in-between but for some reason I can't get myself motivated to do it.I think it might be because I spend more time on Dear Howard: A fading History that when it comes to putting things on here my get up go has got up and went. If you wondering how long I will be posting on my other blog, I really can't say. It could be at least another year or more. There are a lot of letters to be shared yet. Anyway here is the picture of the swing I took this morning.  The husband decided to plant a food plot for the deer. It nice not looking at the weeds. Here is what it looked like last year.   What a difference a year could make. it does look better without the weeds in the back ground. I mentioned that he planted a food plot to attract deer. Well here is a picture of one of the deer we see. He is a four pointer. I've named him Fred. The other day it ...

It's the beginning of another month and with that I have a new picture of the swing. I took it this morning when there was frost on the ground. So it is getting colder here as you see.  This past month for me has been uneventful at the most part.  Last weekend we went to the highest point in Wisconsin, Tim's Hill. The leaves were pretty much off the trees. I did take a few pictures from the top of the tower. Here are a couple of them. It was a perfect kind of day to be there. The wind was calm and only a few people were there. The leaves were so deep you had to almost plow them with your feet as you walked.  Once down from the tower we took a walk on one of the trails that went by the lake that is also there. here are a couple pictures I took of the view of the lake. I don't know about you but there is something about calm water and the reflection of the trees with blue sky that to me is something I could just sit by till the sun went down, rel...

I know it's been a while since I've posted anything but I'm sorry. The only excuse i have right now is it's summer and I'm not in the mood to ponder things to much right now. Not to say I haven't been thinking about things because I have. The first thing I will share with you is my first of the month picture of my swing. Ready, here it is. TA! DA! The swing!!!!!!!! The long grass behind it might be a little browner then last month but that's about it. I suppose you want to know what else I've been up to. Well I'm going to share a few pictures with you that I managed to take. This is what I see from time to time from by bedroom window.I manage to get this picture the other day. There is also three fawns the husband has seen in the field. I have not been able to get a picture of them yet. These are my three turkeys. It's always fun talking to them. I just kind of whistle at them and they talk back.  Remember the gnomes I w...

I didn't forget to write something last weekend, I just have not been in the mood to write lately.  Life for me has been as humdrum as ever. One reason is that winter will not go a way around here. It's still white outside and just won't stop. Sure it does melt but then it will snow again making a bigger mess.  I thought spring had sprung when I saw robins.   But the poor things have been snowed on at least twice since I took this picture. There is a saying that robins will get snowed on at least three times before the snow will go away. Looking at the forecast it just might be a few more times before it stops coming down in snow form. In the mean time I think we are all suffering from cabin fever in Wisconsin. The husband is. It's to muddy and sloppy to do anything outside.   I have been keeping myself a little busy by doing some plastic canvas projects. I decided to pick one of my pattern books and make everything in it. There are 101 different t...

    I decided it was time to do a little bit of a tone up on Ponder Pages. So if you have visited before you will notice, if not you will see little changes every time you do visit. So what kind of changes am I going to do? Well, for one the background so far. I've also taken down the picture of Jean Viken which is a cold case that no one seams to want to solve. I might put it up again some other time but for now I'll be trying out other ideas to put on here. I've decided to include little footnotes that happen in my humdrum life just to show how boring my normal everyday life is and how small things do add a little something to it from time to time. Here is an example of footnotes you might see from time to time. This week a few things did happen to give me something to tell people at work. Like footnote number 1: On Wednesday night I was going to take my dog Fawn for a walk when I noticed two black dogs sniffing around at the end of our driveway. The husband h...

  Driving to work the other day I got to thinking about the different things I've seen or experienced on the way to work. There have been some times I wish I had a camera with me. Like I'm not sure how many years ago it was but, it was when there was no snow on the ground and it was very light out. It must have been before they changed our working time to 6am instead of 6:30 am. Anyway, I come up over the hill at the end of my road and looked across, it almost took my breath away. There was a low hanging fog in the low spot and all you could see was the roof of a house. If I would have had time I would have run back home to get my camera. But I didn't so the only thing I have is the memory.   Living in the country in the middle of Wisconsin most of the traffic jams I experience are a little different then you would in the city. Like deer on the road.  There have been allot of times when a deer has decided to join me on the road. I always see them soon enough so I slow do...

The husband and his prize buck. It has 11 points and a 20 inch spread.  Would you believe he shot it at the end of our driveway?

It's that time of the year, again. The start of the hunting seasons. The husband is a bow hunter, for deer that is. Every year he has some tale to tell about one that got away. This year is no different. There are usually many over all the seasons he hunts in. The first one just happened last night. He had been up in his tree stand and off in the distance he saw a deer, but he forgot the binoculars so he could not tell what it was. Well, as it started to get to dark to see right he climbed down from his tree stand and headed for the four wheeler. Along the path he drove, he went by a kind of a low spot that was not suppose to have anything that was dark looking in it. He stopped trying to figure out what it was. He thought bear. So for some reason he decided to start growling at it. It didn't move. He starting waving his arms while he growled at it. It didn't move. He tried to get louder at the growling while he waved his arms. Suddenly it slowly moved. It was a buck. A h...

If you are from Wisconsin you more then likely heard about these. The first thrill killing involved 6 deer and three guys in their twenties riding snowmobiles. They apparently chased, ran over and dragged five deer in a field. One was still alive and tied to a tree but had to be put down because it had broken legs. They put out a ten thousands dollar reward for any information on who did this. Apparently a girlfriend of one turned them in. After they were caught one of them he said there was a sixth one he had taken home to butcher. Believe it or not they were not drunk when they did this. The second incident involved someone on a snowmobile on a river who ran over ducks. This person made two runs up and down a river running over 50 ducks. I have not heard if he was drunk or what his reasoning for doing it but he turned himself in later. I'm not sure how old he was. Why? It makes no sense. The husband thinks that the ones that killed the deer should never be allowed to have a snowm...

It's Saturday after Thanksgiving and all is quiet here for me. It just did not feel like Thanksgiving this year. For one thing once again no snow for the hunters. This is the first year that the husband has not yet gotten a deer with the gun. He has not even seen one. Two of his brothers have not gotten any either. I don't think the deer population is as big as the DNR tries to make people believe. Or maybe the deer have just gotten smarter. Because there is no snow the deer can lie down in the tall grass and are hard to find. My Mom told me of a guy who was sitting in a tree stand, during bow season, when he saw a big buck start to come his way. As he was watching it hoping it would come closer he heard someone else start coming toward him and the deer. He watched as that deer lied down as flat as it could with only it's horns sticking up. Then he watched the people walk within a couple feet of the deer and they never saw it. Boy I bet he wishes he had a video camera. That...

I want to say it's a quiet Sunday morning, but if that's the case I would still be in bed at5:30 right? I either want to blame it on the regular habit of getting up at 4:10am during the week or maybe it's the fact that at around 5am the husband starts sounding like a buzz saw for some reason. Maybe his body is so use to me getting up at 4am that it's just part of his bodies habit to start snoring at that time. Who knows. I'm up now what? I could talk about the debate last week which I did watch. I watched it on a station called Current TV. It's a very interesting place to view this kind of thing. They had it set up so that people could sign on through Twitter and leave comments about what was going on. I got a bigger kick out of those comments then I did actually listening to all the details the candidates were saying. The way I see it I think there were more people in favor of Obama then McCain. I will say I am an Obama supporter. It is time for the old boys c...

It's Sunday morning. I was not in the mood for writing yesterday so I'm making up for it today. Yesterday I went for a nice quiet walk alone. I walked maybe about 2 miles . I enjoy that time of the morning when the sky is so blue and no one else is really out and about. My brother-in-law is but he's busy with his farm work. I get to listen to all the birds singing and watch all the different animals that are out and about. I sometimes see deer but not yesterday. I did earlier in the week. I kinda sorta hit a deer with my car. I was going down the road to go see how my husband was doing baling hay. I was headed to town to do bring a few props I found to the theater, we are doing the play A Year with Frog and Toad. I'm stage manager again. Anyway the road I was taking to head to town is a part of the road I don't take to town very often when I'm driving. I was not going to fast when all of a sudden out of the corner of my eye I saw brown out the drivers side windo...