Topo maps - NH Fish and Game

Topo maps - NH Fish and Game

Chuck & Beans

Chuck & Beans

Noah turned "8"

Happy Birthday Noah!

Halloween Cupcakes

Halloween Cupcakes at Nana's house.
James and Nana made some great Halloween cupcakes, while Papa and Jason worked on Nana's Computer, Jason removed Nine screws from the computer carcass all by himself.

How did Jefferson know?

How did Jefferson know?

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the
brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement:
"This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to
gather at one time in the White House with the exception of
when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
Especially read the last quote from 1802.


When we get piled
upon one another in large cities, as in Europe,
we shall become as corrupt as Europe .
Thomas Jefferson


The democracy will cease to exist
when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson


It is incumbent on every
generation to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would save
one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson


I predict future happiness for
Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the
pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson


My reading of history convinces me
that most bad government results from too much
government.
Thomas Jefferson


No free man shall ever be debarred
the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson


The strongest reason for the
people to retain the right to keep and bear arms
is, as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson


The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson


To compel a man to subsidize with
his taxes the propagation of ideas which he
disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson


Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
'I believe that
banking institutions are more dangerous to
our liberties than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issue of their
currency, first by inflation, then by
deflation, the banks and corporations that will
grow up around the banks will deprive the people
of all property - until their children
wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.

Mural app is fun to play with...

Mural.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

End of the growing season is upon us...

The last of the cherry tomatoes are ready to be picked, the Roma's are really starting to come in now too.














The Basil is going to seed as is our Broccoli now, I could have kept it cut and had 3-5 more meals out of it.

We've dried several batches of herbs, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme, yeah I know... Basil too.














The Morning glories are just starting to seed up too. So many volunteers around the yard don't know it it's worth the effort to save them.

Hopkington Fair 2010

James and the friendly sheep. A great time was had by all this year, the dust wasn't intolerable, James thought the sheep were pretty cool, Rabbits and few odd breeds of chickens with the feathers on their feet.

Texting is getting out of hand, Jason Texting...

Texting is getting out of hand, even Jason at the haunted house is Texting...

Listening to the Barking Dogs...

Sitting down reading the morning blogs and all of a sudden Gordon our (Beagle lab mix) starts barking and barking.

The usual banging on the window, yelling at him, threatening to bring him in, %&#$! dog expletives wouldn't stop him. Rose opened the window shade and saw Gordon with his hair all up on his back barking towards the neighbors property, and look what she saw...

A great Blue Heron just standing there looking back at us. You can see the dogs Kennel in the corner of the picture, so this is what he was seeing. We've seen them at our pond and flying overhead before, never just standing in the yard though.

Several rounds of Good Dog Gordon ensued!

Neighbor put in a small pond a year or so back, he was complaining last week that the water level is very low due to the dry summer maybe there was a good frog crop this year.

End of the season already...

The last of the volunteer Morning Glories were flowering this morning, the nights are getting cool, good camping weather.