Great finds

We took a trip over to Medford today, which is 75 miles for us, and purchased two dog kennels for $200. If I keep rescueing animals it will be nice to have a place for them to be safe. I thought I might even take on boarding once in awhile too. While we were there my eyes spotted the galvanized animal trough, so of course I had to ask the woman what she was gonna do with it. She sold it to me for $10 and the smaller one for $5, and she gave me the old wheel barrel that was gonna be taken to the dump. I think it will look great with flowers in it, and she then gave me the old milk stool and honey pail and large igloo dog house. Not a bad catch for the day, would'nt you say?

two kennels

A little bit of work ahead to get the kennels cleaned up and set up, but it was well worth the price to have extra room for the critters. By the way, that snake skin on the left of the pic was a rattler my hubby came upon a few days ago. It measured in at 47 inches and let me tell you, it was large. I had'nt seen one since moving away from Phoenix, AZ. I don't even remember one being that large then. We skinned it and now it's drying. Bet it'd make a pretty nice hat band or belt.

I will be using the troughs as my raised gardening beds. I have three already and they are working out really well for me. Besides not having to bend over, they keep more heat on my plants therefore helping them grow. And with our short season, every little bit helps. We are suppose to have a frost tonight, ugk, so I have covered my tomatoes with hopes of one day soon, having red ones. I can't say I am ready for Fall just yet since I have'nt had any red tomatoes from my garden to speak of.

How is your garden doing? Hope you are having a bit more luck with yours than I have had again this year. Keeping my fingers crossed still.

Tinkering

I have so loved trying my hand at making different types of crafty things. I see so many beautiful items that you bloggers have made that I am tempted to try them myself. I am just not that talented in many of the crafts but I did attempt the coffee filter wreath. My first one turned out so bad that I knew I had to really think about the layout of the filters so that they would come out more even all the way around.

As you can see the uneven layers from this one. I just was'nt thinking, just glueing away...


So a few days ago I decided it was time to try my luck on another coffee filter wreath. After burning my fingers so many times from the hot glue gun, and using lots and lots of filters, this is what I ended up with.

Not bad, huh? With practice I hope to improve. It definately takes time to complete one of these. I worked several hours one day and finished it the next.

Then I decided to try one of those cone shaped paper rolled wreaths. After using some pretty old music paper, most were tearing, I finally got enough rolled up to put this wreath together.

It turned out okay, but always room for improvement. This one was a little easier, but still managed to take a few layers of skin off my fingertips. Those glue guns get hot! 

There are so many projects I would like to try. I am still practicing the fabric roses. Not even gonna show you those pics. :/ Talk about needing lots and lots of practice. But what a fun way to use up all my scrap material.

I will keep watching your blogs for more fun projects and want to thank you all for helping this ol' gal learn some new things. There are so many great crafters that I have found through blogland. Love that you all share with us.

Blessings,

Gail

Doggone it, we've done it again

Yep, we have once again rescued another dog. Her name is Suzy Q. She is a Heeler and about 10 months old. I brought her home yesterday from an older gentleman who cannot take care of her. She is doing very well with our other girls so far. My goal is to teach her how to be around my chickens and cats. These are all new things to her.
Is'nt she cute?

That's Pearl on the right. She is just a little over one year now and she's a mini Australian Shepherd. She is totally jealous but loves having another she can run and play with. Her cousin, Cora, comes up every few months to play. She's a Heeler too and about the same age as both these girls. Won't they have a ball all together?

For the past few days I have been dogsitting our neighbor's dog, Zeus. I think he looks more like a giant slouth. What do you think? He is such a gentle dog, but boy is he a big, big boy.

Life has'nt been boring around our home. Plenty of doggy music going on. We have our two little one's , Jade (mini aussie) and Onyx ( min pin) playing together in the house while the others are getting to know each other better.

 Suzy Q is sure loving to run around the acreage we have, but I need to teach her to be in a kennel also. We put our dogs in crates to sleep at night. Keeps them out of mischief and gives us better sleep. At least sometimes.

Driving crazy



Whitehorse Falls

My younger sister and her daughter have come to visit us this week. We did an overnight to the beach but first stopped at a few of the many waterfalls our area has to offer.
This one is right off the highway with picnic tables to luncheon at and a bridge to walk out onto for a better view of the falls. Everything is green and breathtaking.


Further down the highway we came across the next falls which we had to hike some ways back and up into the woods. It was quite a climb but very refreshing once we got near the top. It is almost like a huge canyon opened up and out poured the falls.

Watson Falls

Toketee Falls

After climbing as far as we did, we did not make it further to the top so this was the view I could capture. We then continued down the road to the falls that really took us on a hike. There were 97 stairs to climb up along the way with 125 coming back down. But the view was well worth the hike. My only wish was that there had been an elevator down to the pool of water itself. One could certainly work up a good sweat getting to it.

After the falls we drove on into Bandon, Or. to find a spot for dinner and a place to lay our heads. Spent the night two blocks from the ocean and slept like babies.

Bandon

Off to breakfast and while looking for our beach we missed our turnoff in Gold Beach where we were hoping to spend a few hours, only to end up in Northern California on Crescent City beach instead. Spent some time there before journeying back towards home, only to once again miss my turn off and we ended up far north  near Crater Lake driving through miles and miles of forest before finally reaching the highway closer to home. Although we missed some sites we did manage to be pleased with the many lakes and mountains and gourges we saw along our trip.

Crescent City

Next year, map in hand, we plan to stay a little more settled into a campsite where we can lay around, relax in some water and do some gentle hiking. Leave the driving to just getting there and getting back home.