A bird named Kevin.

A couple weeks ago we received a frantic call from some friends of ours. They have quite a few Blue Jays nesting in their trees and one baby had fallen out the night before and was hopping around yelling. After waiting to see if the parents would hang around and take care of their prodigal chick, Faith and I drove over to see how it was and maybe take it home.

Well needless to say, baby bird ended up traveling home with us and was dubbed Kevin, by the Roehrer children after the bird in the Movie "UP".

Ahhh, beautiful warm sun.

Kevin is a doll she/he\it, has gotten rather independent now but still loves to come inside where it is cool in the hot afternoon and cuddle down on a finger for an afternoon nap. In fact I have the little creature perched on my left hand's fingers right now as I slowly peck with my right:-) Chs

Reflection: The briefness of life.

All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. 7. The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the Lord blows upon it; Surely the people are grass. 8. The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of OUR God stands forever.!!!

Isaiah 40:6b-8

Abandoned roads and darling doggies.

No, our Lap Top has not yet been fixed, I downloaded these pictures by a sneaky and devious route from Mr. Reiche:)!

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Last Monday, Josiah and I had the oppurtunity of helping Mr. Reiche re-claim an old abandoned road, and make it into a hiking/biking trail. Mr. Reiche had gotten permission from the farmers who's ancestors the road had been named after, and who's property bordered and/or included most of the trail.

We made a quick stop to see one of the farmers, a friend of Mr. Reiche's who raises race horses, and were thrilled (or at least I was;) to see him exercising one of his gorgeous horses around his race track which circles a small lake. The Horses symmetry was absolutely beautiful to see; its legs working as matched pistons in a well balanced trot around the track.

As soon as we (I) were done watching the horse we drove back to our entrance to the "road" and began work. Some of the path was still quite clear and sitll had a road like appearance.

There was just a few logs here and there to clear and low branches to trim. In other parts though....


...grass touch-me-not's and other various weeds had made battle against the road and won. We went to war on the roads side and chopped down a path through the middle, leaving piles of vanquished foes behind us.


We made it all the way to the end of the road, and felt an overwhelming sense of accomplishment as we broke our way through the overhanging bush and popped out where the road used to connect. Mr. Reiche said he felt like Lewis, Clark and Sacajawea, breaking a path through the wilderness. So, tired but happy, wet but satisfied, we made our way back to the car and begin to wind our way down the drive towards home.


But we just had to stop when we saw the farm's puppies rambling around in the yard. AWWWW!

Six adorable, wiggly, soft, mutt puppies met us with effusive joy. Their mother was extensively passive and did not mind us grabbing hugging squeezing or kissing her puppies at all.


I believe this one was my favorite (but it is hard to tell, all six were darling). He was the chunk of the bunch, playful but not quite as rough and overly energetic as some of the others. Both Josiah and I had bundles of fun and were very grateful to Mr. Reiche for taking us along and letting us help.

~Chs

Building Bridges!

Here is one of my draft post, that does have pictures. Though it is missing the last complete picture.
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One thing we brought up from Florida was Grandpa's Golf Cart, the transporting of which was a giant story all in its self. But once we had it at our house we now had the problem of how to get it over our stream to be able to access the back property.


We called in reinforcements, Mr. Reiche the resident expert bridge builder came to our rescue.

Board by board the bridge came together.

Since the Bridge has been finished we have used it all the time. Many wheels and feet have crossed it and it has been very very useful. Thank you much Mr. Reiche for your help.

~Chs

Lap Top Demise.

Dear Blog readers, I apologize for the lack of posts, and am saddened to have to inform you, that for the indefinite future there will be no pictures on the following posts. Yep that's right, our lap top on which we have all our pictures loaded, has decided that it does not like our company and has gone into seclusion. In other words, it has stopped working! Soooo, I promise we are trying to recover the pictures, but until then I'm afraid you must be satisfied with picture-less blog posts.
Your disgraced blog mistress, Christianna H. Sauve

PS. Anyone out there really smart about computers? Want to help?!!!!!!!!