Well, no, not in June. These are images I discovered on my camera from a storm back in March and are here to tell our friends in the frozen northlands that, yes, we do get snow, even down here in Tennessee. And I think the picture of the red barn in the snow is well worthy of a postcard.
manoj
On January 23 Asa had six puppies. Recently, I found a set of puppy pictures when cleaning out the CF memory on my camera and decided to throw them together. There are pictures from their first excursion downstairs away from their warm cozy bed into the cold of February. There also were issues with complicated things like food bowls. Then we have pictures from March, when a rare snow storm blanketed the area. By this time the puppies were living out in the heated workshop (where the puppies still live). There are non-software pictures of the early days of the puppies, but they still need to be scanned in, so there is much more to come.
We kept two of the puppies, Banshee (named so because she spent the first couple of days of her life wailing like one), and Champ, named for his tendency to be a champion for his family, regardless of the size of the aggressor. We found the other 4 puppies good homes (it was really easy to find them new humans; just taking them to the flea market had people oohing and aahing over them).
There was also the episode of Banshee and Essie taking off for 4 days when they were 6 weeks old, but that is another story (and another set of pictures).
Banshee and Champ can be seen in more recent pictures and you can see how fast they are growing. Four months, and already they are over 30 pounds each.
manoj
When we first moved to Tennessee from Mobile, AL, we rented a house (having failed to find a suitable house prior to moving). This, we hoped, would afford us time to properly look for a house. The rental house was nice enough on the outside, but had been empty and unmaintained for far too long and things like the oven did not work. And it was also, umm, design challenged; so our stay was quite uncomfortable. Add to that the fact that we knew we had to move again shortly, so we did not unpack most of our things; it felt like a prolonged camping-in.
After about 6 months of actively looking for a house all we had was a near miss – and we were getting very frustrated. We had an excellent real estate agent, and I was beginning to feel guilty about the amount of work she was putting in for us. We had almost given up and had nearly decided to buy a 5-acre plot to build on. We had talked to the builder and even had a floor plan started.
And then our agent called about a house just going on the market that week, so we drove down to check it out – more out of a sense of due diligence than out of any expectation of finding something we would like. And as Judy’s car topped the hill, we saw what you can see in the pictures below and my heart beat accelerated.
This is one of the few houses, which look good from the outside and you don’t feel let down after looking inside. We moved in less than 4 weeks after the house was put on the market.
manoj