The Battle

Toothless and Hiccup engage The Red Death in an epic battle.

The Red Death

The bad guy makes his entrance.

Toothless to the Rescue

After Hiccup wouldn't kill the dragon, Toothless came to his rescue when the clan turned on him.

The Dragon Games Begin!

As the second act started so did the Dragon Games.

But not all dragons are bad

Toothless learned how to play nice

And then...

A Nadder attacked

The dragons are here!

A Gronklus Maximus was the first to appear.

iPhone 5

My pictures should look a lot nicer now.

Our mud room has the measles

Painting is coming along. Walls fixed and first coat of primer is on.

Hey there

The deer are enjoying the cold weather as much as I am.

Harvesting the herbs

Time to start drying and freezing some our herbs. We had a great harvest from our new garden boxes this year.

Redecorating

As we have been collecting our vintage clocks, we finally got enough to go over our bookcases. We couldn't figure out what to do with that wall and this seems perfect.

Our 2nd grader!

Inside a balloon

We got to go inside a hot air ballon!

Look at her climb!

She made it to the top and rang the bell.

Fun at the NYS Fair

Well our set just doubled

So the old lady who owned these items got my number from the store I bought them from and offered me the rest if I kept the set together. I now have lots of black walnut with every receipt and artist dating back to the 50/60's on almost every piece!

She also has several pieces of handmade Danish furniture I will be looking at tomorrow. What a score.

Today's Haul

Found an entire collection of black walnut pieces today for a steal.

Our neighborhood park

The park got the worst of it. We lost 2 huge trees that must have been 100's of years old. Look how small that telephone pole is compared to that tree. Farther back there is another 6-7 trees snapped in half about 8' from the ground.

End of the driveway

Luckily we live in Amish country and they are helping us out taking down the broken trees. All the trees were brought down today and they will be picking them up tomorrow.

Summer Storm

Well Elmira got a confirmed tornado and they don't know yet what hit us. Luckily no trees on the house but we lost five beautiful pine trees along the driveway. All in all our road with 11 houses lost probably 40 trees.

Flat Summer

Flat Summer came with us on vacation and we got pictures of her all over the island. Our little island girl had a great time.

Mmmm Barracuda

Not many places you can get fresh barracuda in the states. The Driftwood catches them fresh everyday and this is a blackened Cajun catfish with a peach BBQ sauce. So good.....

Had fun in Aruba

Another fun vacation in Aruba.

On the plane in Hotlanta...

Next stop Aruba!

We've got twins

We have another set of twins hanging out in the woods around the house. They watched me grill up some cedar plank salmon tonight.

The bandit brought her little ones

They were pretty cute, there was 4 babies just learning to climb. Two already made it up the tree.

Freddy still thinks he's a kitten

We love him a lot but he isn't the smartest cat we've ever had.

Brave

Last year we had to bribe her to touch the middle. Now she's playing ring-around-the-rosie under the water and sticking her hand in the spray.

Fountain Fun!

Emily's having fun cooling off!

Thanks Scott!

Installed my trailer wiring splitter and Ron Jon surf shop sticker Scott sent me. Then put on my spiderwebshade safari top to keep some of the sun off my head.

1st Mod is complete

Looks much better with the newly painted and smaller flares.

Rear fender flares done

I forgot how hard it was working on NY vehicles. Ended up having to cut off half the bolts on the rear fender flares. Should finish up the fronts tonight.

Another critter

We've got a black squirrel visiting the feeder now. I've seen them hunting in the woods but never around here.

One of them is not like the others

Another feeder down

The bear made short work of my racoon and squirrel proof feeder. Now I have to figure out how to make them bear proof too.

Our other bandit

Em and I came home tonight to finally see the bear!

Good morning Mrs. Doe

Yep, they really were just a few feet apart.

My little Jeep girl

No top today so we went out for dinner.

A new addition

It will look a lot better after I clean it up but I'm a Jeeper again!

Look what we found this morning!

The Doe must feel that our yard is pretty safe since she left her fawn in the front bed all day. It's still hanging out tonight waiting for her to return.

One of our furry friends

Waiting for his turn on the feeder. The bear showed up while we were at work two days ago and broke their feeder so we have some unhappy squirrels now.

Gardens are planted

Got the garden planted and the deer guard up this weekend.

Our little bandits

We finally figured out who was stealing out of the squirrel feeder. Turned on the back lights to find these numbskulls all over the tree.

Happy Mothers Day!

Here's what I built for Beck. Just some more topsoil and put in the irrigation system then it's ready for plants.

CMOG

Emily was in the art show

At the Corning Museum of Glass!