Cool, Breezy Autumn Day

I would like to give a big THANK YOU to my dear blogger friend, Merle, at

Merle's Third Try for this award. I am supposed to pass it along to 8 other deserving bloggers. Here they are in no particular order.

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The house in the previous post belongs to my friend, Nila. These Watusi cattle belong to her next-door neighbor. The calf is so cute!
The Watusi are originally from Africa. They all have very long horns. I'd sure hate to get on the wrong end of those! LOL
Strangely enough, I'm not exactly sure where I was when I shot this pic, and it was only a couple of days ago! It's on the way between here & my mother's house, but can't remember exactly where. I'm so bad, now I remember where it is. It's out near the 4-H fairgrounds, heading east on 100 North, just after passing Mill Street. The only way I would be able to get a better shot is if I go onto their property.
This is just a shot while I was driving my mother around the other day. Looking at a woods over a soybean field that's almost ready to harvest.

No, this isn't Taffy. This is a juvenile, about 4 months old or so. There are two of them, but I didn't know that until they woke me up at 4:00 in the morning Sunday morning. They knocked the food dish off the step and the noise woke me up. I wasn't about to get the camera at that time of morning. With my luck, I was so tired, I would have had the camera turned on myself! Thursday night was the last time I have seen Taffy, or any other of the adults. The babies started coming around Friday night. I love them at this size, or at any size, for that matter.
A different field, but the colors of the turning leaves turned out better in this shot.
This was also from when I was driving my mother around the other day. It's about a mile north of her house. There is a newer house to the back and right of this old building. It's so far gone, that I'm not sure if it used to be a cabin or some kind of storage building. I think it's neat, though.
The rare occassion that two squirrels will sit together anywhere. They are usually very territorial. In a different shot I took of them, it almost looks like a two-headed squirrel!

I got 2 of my pics published in the local paper, Hartford City News-Times, on Friday. There are viadocks from the old railroad. They are over 100 years old and very delapidated, so they are removing them before they fall down. I took some pictures of the top-side of the viadocks, a couple of the workers and some of the machinery, and turned them all in to the newspaper. They chose the best 2 and put them in the paper. I am now what they call a "stringer". I don't work for the newspaper, but I submit photos.

I guess that's all for now. I'm sorry I have been so bad about posting!

I made a batch of grape jelly a little while ago. It turned out pretty good. I'm as bad as a kid. After I got all the jars filled up, I lick the pan with a spatula just like a kid with cake batter! YUM!

TTYL

Love Ya

Lisa