Last Saturday of 2013

This is the last Saturday of 2013. I admit in a year such as we had, I will describe it this way. I used to have braces on my teeth, every month when I went in to have them tightened for a few days my teeth ached. Then I would grow used to the pain and everything would be fine until the next month. 2013 is like that I grew used to the pain, and 2014 will be like when I was going to get my braces off, I was used to the tightening and the pain because it was normal for me. A new year will be full of new challenges and new beginnings and a whole set of life I have never lived before.

We finally got the old chicken house down and the old wood moved out to be disposed of and what can be salvaged will be used for other projects.

It really is a very pretty part of the back yard with the way the trees grow. We will have to do something pretty with it. I just couldn't take pictures of the mess. I share lots and lots of my life here on the blog, but that eyesore was just a bit much even for me.

Here is a photo of the junky wood and wire we moved. This morning when I got out of bed I felt 110 years old. I was so sore I could hardly move.

I am still pondering about this much wood, and just hauling it all off or just seeing it as treasure. I am not at the treasure part yet.

Today I am going to trim all of my rosebushes and get the last of the leaves raked and get my garden all ready for the spring. As soon as it warms up. I do have a thing about getting all of my yard and garden and my flowerbeds all cleaned before the New Year.

 

One of the things we have in our back yard is a potters wheel. I am a very slow and not very good potter. The different kids through the years have taken pottery but it never clicked. Then Nik came into our family and we found out he is the potter we have been waiting for all of these years. For Christmas, Nik wanted clay. So in the cold on Christmas morning he came outside and made this vase. We are now looking for a kiln so he can throw and bake and glaze his work. We are so thrilled to have some one in the family to now throw pots and use this. He is amazing to watch. God has brought such wonderful gifted people into our family.

Speaking of gifts. Ron bought for me something I have been longing for, I was so thrilled to open this on Christmas morning.

 

My very own rubber boots to go tromping in the mud and to clean my chicken pen and my feet won't get wet and my shoes will stay nice and clean. I really was so happy to get poka dots.

Since Ron has been on vacation he has had time to work on his trees. Here are a few more that he has done.
Each one he does just thrills me to death.

He even made the pots for the tree. So that has been fun watching him work with clay too.

This is a darker one and he used different colored wire.

I like this one because I can see it as a big tree hanging over the top of a cliff on a mountain side.

Here is to show how small he is working to get them. I loved this one too. Just tiny Bonsai trees. He does wire and I read out loud. It is very pleasant to spend the evenings this way.

Just some odds and ends today. I hope your Saturday is very nice.

~Kim~