T Stands for Tuesday @ the Lake

    T Stands for Tuesday-welcome everyone, and also welcome in October.

Find link to our hostess in my right sidebar for T. October is one of my favorite months-it's my husband's and my birthday month and depending upon where you live it can be a gorgeous month. Here in Missouri the leaves slowly change, our average frost is mid month but some years it will hold off til almost the end of October which I am thinking it will this year since we had such a hot and dry summer.

   The leaves are just now beginning to turn, the black walnuts and acorns are constantly falling 

Here at the lake it's been a gorgeous first weekend. No super large vacation boats and no speed boats, instead  lots of fishing boats and even a sailboat. This was the yearly weekend bass fishing contest where the winner takes home the big prize money of $100,000.00-that's allot of winnings for a fish. Last year two very young men took home the prize.

Monday morning very early-surprise the moon was over the lake

  While I was eating my breakfast Monday morning after the sun came up on the deck-visitors swam by

During this past week, much more work on my landscape project was done and I was careful with my knees-sitting down for most of the work We finally got much needed rain Saturday-we have been soooo dry here.

I opened up another red wine-I enjoyed this one much better than the last one.

Now is the time the eagle pair will be visiting much more often. I took this photo after the male flew off.

Happy T everyone, enjoy October 

Second Post for the Day-Video of Landscape Re do

   I don't usually post twice in a day, but since I pretty much completed placing rocks in that area I have been working on today-thought I would make a video.

   When I am tired, I tend to mumble so hoping you can hear me ok.  Much progress has been made, still have allot of rock piles in this area to find a new home for-I do have an area up by the road where I park-between our property and the neighbors and behind our mail box,  that I will haul up the stairs-ugh-allot of small rock. That will be another area cleared and rid of ugly weeds. I may start that tomorrow-I need this cleared so I can amend the soil and buy plants next month.

Our Landscape Project

   This has been a project that is a big one, and has evolved a bit over time.

       With covid most of us lost most of that year, we did for sure as we didn't want to be around younger people that we would hire for help.

     We also needed to wait til the sewer project was finished so we would know what the crew would be digging up etc.

  We still have some water issues in the basement, it has improved allot from breaking up the very very thick concrete and putting brick down for the walk way in front of the house. 

   We are on hill, which is the norm for most homes on this lake, some very steep ours is manageable for our ages I think. There are two stoned in areas that were mostly weeds with big clumps of iris's that I decided to dig up, and then kill off the weeds. On the lower level closest to the house our one friend-worker dug out all the dirt (which I will use) and laid the ground work with big pieces of that concrete that had been broken up. Him and his daughter worked a day and half on this. I decided since this is such a huge job, I would start working on this in the early mornings. I was able to put in 3 hours this morning- first day feeling better I should have just worked two hours-those pieces are heavy. I can see this will be a very huge project What did we get ourselves into haha-it will be awesome though when finished.

  I made a couple videos to share

  Yesterday morning very early I made it to the grocery store, and bought one big bag of miracle grow soil-I have plants coming in today and also on Monday that I will place in pots until I can get them in their spaces. I should have waited til the soil was ready but I found the plants I wanted and just wanted to get them Having them here will push me through this project.

Have a good day today everyone