Sugar Pine

Kayaking and nature at Sugar Pine Res.

New Pictures of Chloe

 
 
 
 

Well we had our favorite little visitor with us this past weekend. Here are some new pictures of her. She is now 22 months old. Some of the pictures include Ron and Chloe and our close friend Joe and Chloe. Enjoy.

Cheese and Grapes

Oh so much cheese and not sure which one to pick. Along with the cheese goes the grapes, then the wine.........

The Little Birdies

Well, we moved the wreath as I said earlier and was able to get some pictures of the new birdies. Needless to say, the wreath will have to be 86'd once the little ones fly away.

Looks like there are 4 birdies. Believe we had 5 eggs, but not sure.

Enjoy.

Chloe was here

Well, Chloe was here this week. Boy has she changed. Developing quite the personality. She got to see what a lizard and tree frog look like and found she liked the frog decorations around Grandma's garden. Each day we had to go outside so she could give them each a little kiss. She also discovered the water fountain and greatly enjoyed playing with that each day as well. Grandma and Grandpa enjoyed her visit and had a great time.

Bird Eggs and Where are the Ladybugs?

Well, imagine my surprise last week when I was going outside to the side porch walkway and was mugged by this little bird. This little bird was going nuts and flying all over the place and I am ducking her wondering what in the world is going on. Since I did not see anything, started doing what was my original intention, cleaning the windows outside. Yes, I am crazy, I decided this year to clean the windows. The week before I had done the inside of the main level, all 38 of them along with the 4 sliders. My knitting buddies thought I was nuts, my body said hey this is to be done when you are younger. So after cleaning the inside, guess what, you need to work on the outside. But, I decide to do this in little bits, not like I did when I cleaned the ones inside all in a day. As I was begining to work on the windows on the side of the house, I was removing the Wreath from the side door and I discovered this little bird's nest. Now, I figured out why I was being attacked by the little killer bird, she was just protecting her eggs. Once, I found the nest, I did not move the wreath. However, Ron and I both decided we needed to move the nest as the wreath would move around every time we would be going in and out of the house and we did not want to destroy the eggs. We have moved the nest over a little to a nice little spot that is protected in our breezeway. Momma Bird found her nest and seems to be happy with her new spot. I took a picture of the nest and looking forward to when the little birdies break out of the eggs.

Now as to the ladybugs. The roses are coming back this year, but with our crazy weather (warm then cold), I have a infest of aphids like never before. So being the quasi ecology minded person I am, decided to try some natural remedies first. We were at Home Depot and we bought 2 bags of Ladybugs. The directions say you put them out in the evening and the little ladybugs will do their thing with your plants. Hmmm, well I put them out across 5 rose buses and the next day went out to see what was going on and they were all gone!!!! Not sure if they are hiding somewhere else, some of the aphids are gone but seem to be getting some new ones, so I am now going to use the old smelly bug spray. Yes, I know it has affects but it does what I want it to do, kills those aphids!!!!

Here are the rest of them

More pictures

And some pictures from last summer of Jason, Micah, Chloe and Noelle. Then a couple of Old Town Auburn and some that I recently took at a friends house.

New pictures for the week

Here are some pictures that I took over in Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas, Nv

Adding some pictures

Sure hope this works.

Can't upload pictures without including one of my little angle, Chloe.

Taking Pictures

Have that new camera and need to get out and start taking pictures. Joined a local camera club and hope to get some pointers.