Flower Power

Christmas Day

Here are a couple of photos of a flower under the stairs. The first one was taken on Christmas day about 4:30 PM and the second one on the day after Christmas about 11:30 AM. There was quite a bit of progress in just one day.

Same flower on the day after Christmas

Weed Eater 1 Snake 0

Actually it should be weed eater 2, Snake 0. A few years ago I was down here by myself and the lawn team was mowing and trimming the yard when the weed eater operator encountered a rattlesnake and the weed eater won. This week the same thing happened and again the adept operation of the weed eater defeated the rattlesnake. I am actually surprised that we don’t see more of them but that is only the second one in 12 years or so. The high tide may have played a role in driving this one out into the open. He was actually across the street near some bushes.

Christmas at the Creek

The east wall that we started with, pretty bad

We finally decided that December 20-27 would be a good week to go to the creek so we packed up and went. The weather was the warmest we have ever seen at Christmas but it was damp and foggy for a few days. The main job for this trip was to get the rest of the house painted. That is a big task and as you will see we only got some of it done. These are just a few of the pictures but they will convey the idea. Since my knee surgery I can’t get up on the ladder for any length of time so that task fell to Martha and she did a great job. The ladder is a 24 foot extension ladder and it is almost all the way extended in some of these pictures. The end result was that the east side got painted but the front and back did not. We will do them next time. Martha had done most of the west side at Thanksgiving and I finished it this trip. The temperature on Christmas day got up to the high 70’s and may have been a record. One of the pictures is of the area that will become a fish cleaning table and bait / live well. Above is what we started with and below are other related pictures.

Martha painting after 2 days of scrubbing

All Done with this side

Me working on the pier

A foggy morning at the creek

Sunset at the creek