Have been working on my paintings again.  I changed the backround of the big bird.  Now I 'm pleased with it.  There was to much going on in the backround before.  We have  hung all three and now the wall doesn't look so bare.

Uncle Dick and Bette  shopped last week for a new refrigerator.  They found one just like ours not stainless steel though) that they liked so well.  It had the  filtered water and  ice despencer in the door and the side by side  frig  and freezer. They had it delivered and call  me over to help  move stuff  from one  ref. to the other.  They will have to have someone come in and run a water line for the  ice and filtered water but they  are so pleased with their new  fridge! They came over to our house for Thanksgiving and an a exciting game of TRAIN,  we really do enjoy that game.  We have set  up a evening once a week to get together and play the game. Have ask the neighbors to join us after telling them how much fun we have  they  we in for the fun aswell!  Now there are six of us going at it every Friday night.( we enclude a light dinner party before the game with everyone bringing something to contribute).

This last weekend brother Jim came over from Jacksonville with his family.  We had a wonderful time eating the last of the turkey and fixings and caughting up  on the family news from a  long summer away.  Dick gave some more paper work to Ben about the  family tree and Ben  show us some of his  summer race car videos he took at the track.  Jim also told us some of  his Navy stories that we had not heard before.  He really saw the world those many years ago.  It was so facinating to hear where he had been and what he did.

Yesterday we went to town.  That was an all dayer!!  Got a lot of stuff done.  Went to Sam's and stocked up for the holiday and got the stuff to make for the Christmas Tea a church on Saturday.  Then we went to a  store I was anxious to go to.  A conseignment  store.   My kind of prices!!!  They had beautiful furniture and of coarse I could not pass up a deal to get at rug for the family room and some sconces for the walls.  This will cut down on the hollowness in the room for sure. Have not moved those pics  yet.  Will post them  next time.  Anyway I was thrilled with the  things I bought .  Also saw a dinning room table and  six chairs that I have my eye on that we  really need as we are  entertaining on a  fold up table that is really quite narrow to play train on as well as  have dinner guest  sit around.  I may just go back and get that table.  The price was right  but do I really want to put that money in that spot right now?  Like all my big buys,  I think about ot for a while and if it is to be mine it will still be there  if  I decide to get it  later.  We will see.......

So, I finally caught this little cridder right outside my kitchen window.  Munching on that sad stuff I call grass  or maybe he was digging one of his infamous holes to get at the meat of the yard.  Any way,  he was caught with his nose in the ground  doing the damage.  Hubby chased him into the woods to do his dining in a different venue.  Boy,  could he run!  Armidillo that is,  not hubby.  He doesn't  run anymore than he needs too.
On our way to shopping  we pass a large farm and I have  always forgotten my camera.  Yesterday  I remembered so got a shot of these llamas( at least I think that is  what they are!).  Some  had heavy coats of fur  just hanging from their  sides.  They must have been  very hot this summer  with all that fur.  Don't know what they are used for .  Suspect for the fur or maybe us the novelty of having llamas.  Total of five were there.
Hope  you enjoy the pictures....

After an all day trip to town last week I now have  some canvas to paint on.  Here are  two of the set of three that I have painted for the  bathroom wall.  They  are called egrets.  Various colors will be desplayed by the time I get the third one done.  It only took two days apiece to do the  two I  am  showing here.  Hope the next one is just as quick for I am  anxious to get started on the large one for the livingroom.  Now that's not saying I know just what that painting will be but  I'm  sure it will take some time to paint for it will be a really big one to do.  May  have it done by the end of winter.
It was warm this  morning so I planted my last  plant that I got  at the  Ag. center.  It is  called a Crinum.  Looks somewhat llike a lilly but will be a lovely pink.  Unfortunately,, I will be up north when it blooms.  Brother will have to send me a picture of it's beauty  while I am gone.   It will dress up the yard while I am not here  to do any yard work.  Got the lawn mowed again this morning as well.  Probably be the last time for the season.  We are  headed to town again tomorrow for Dad to give blood for testing again.  Then on Friday , we are having in some friends for homemade pizza and salad , plus , a  fun game of Mexican Domino Train Game.  Should be a fun night!!

Here is an other shot of the stairs finally in the pool.   Looks very refreshing but,  it has turned cool here and even with that said brother and wife got in to 

50 degree water to position the stairs.  They have to be nuts !  But they wanted to get them in and try them out after working on the project for over a month.  Can't blame them but really   50 degrees?  Today the temp.  will not go above 65 during the day.  Guess the swimming days are over for a couple of month here.

Here  are those stairs that brother bought for his pool.  It has taken quit some time to re-vamp them to accomidate his  not so flat pool floor,  but with some great minds of thought  he and hubby came up with a solution of adding more foot lifts to adjust the hight difference and wal-la   stairs that work  for them!  These steps will be much easier to use than the  steps that came with the pool.
So  these are the pictures for today.  Guess I'm on my was to communicating with family.  YEA!!!!!

Another pass time is my art.  I have been doing mostly oil painting but came across this daring picture in a wedding invitation from Colorado and could not resist trying my had at  a pencil drwaing.  It didn't turn out to bad so I framed it and put it in my diningroom to decortate my bare walls.  Choosing pictures for my new walls is a long proccess for me to get ones that are just right.  Sometimes it takes years of hunting to get just the right one.  This one  seems to fit right into that spot.

Our first  week here there was a plant sale at the Ag. Extention  Field, so brother and I  went shoping for new additions to our gardens.  As you can see we got a wagon full.