Did you see the Moon?

Did you see the "Full Beaver Moon" last night?

According to the Almanac, the Beaver Moon is a time to set your beaver traps before the swamp freezes, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs or its a time for the beavers to make ready for winter. Either way, we now colder weather is coming soon.

 I love to photograph the moon and have figured out the manual settings to get the moon to be focused correctly.

The only problem was, it wasn't quite dark and I wanted to see the silhouette of the trees and still get the moon correctly. I played with some settings and didn't have any success.

I got to noticing the moon was trailing in my picture, as I had ever so slight movement while perched on top of a fence post. (I left the tripod in the house, when I went out back.) Then I remembered reading about "writing" with the camera. Well, my attempt looks like scribble and I obviously have a long way to go before this is anything fabulous, but I thought it was very interesting. Can you see the "J"? I started out by attempting to write my name then it just turned to jibberish!

By this time, it was really dark and I was cold, so I called it quits and still don't know how to photograph the moon as it rises through the trees at dusk and get the whole scene in focus. If anybody has any great tips, please share with me!

Rainy Day

We had a rainy day in Texas today! Yahooooo! It's so nice to have a rainy day after such a long dry season.

All the girls had the rainy day blues laying around the house, while I worked on a few sewing projects. I captured these pics and created the collage with my iPod of Oakley, Punkie, and Trixie.

Vacation Week - Part 1

This week, I am celebrating a week of Vacation Time or as a friend says, "Vaa-caaation"!!! Its more like a stay-cation, working on projects around the house and some creative time. We have too many animals and no one to see after them while we are gone, to be able to leave home for any length of time. But thats ok with me, it's great not having to set an alarm and hear a ringing phone all the time.

I made this ribbon and material wreath this weekend.

Last week I heard people talking about stuffed burlap door hangers. I saw a couple pictures on Pinterest and had all the material on hand, so I made this stuffed, burlap cross. What do you think? A friend let me put this in her store in town and I've had a couple orders for more, so I have broke out the sewing machine to create some more crosses. I'm thinking these will be great Christmas gifts for a few people on my list!

Here is a sneak peak of my bathroom project. This bathroom had new wall board put up around the tub several years ago, but if the board gets wet for an extended time, it swells up (the sanded places on the left side of picture). Needless to say, we  only take baths in this tub. My other shower needs work as well, so something has to be done. We found a paint for counter tops that is water proof, so we are trying it to see if it will seal the wall and allow us to take showers in here. I've got one coat on the wall and ran out of paint. I will get some more paint Wednesday and paint when the humidity is better for curing the paint. Stay tuned for the results!

The paint STINKS, so I had to take a few breaks. One time when I went outside for fresh air, I found this worm on my yellow 4:00's by the back door. I went back for my camera and experimented with different settings.  

While it sounds like my vacation has been all about work, we did go to a car show Saturday. I can't tell you the name of all these cars or hardly any details at all. Farmall Man tries to tell me stuff about them, but I just know what I like to photograph at events like this and what I think is pretty!

I thought these tools used as the gas, break, and clutch pedals was awesome! I would let FM do this to my truck. How junky cool is that?

So thats how my first few days off from my regular job have been.

Now I have a question for you - How early is too early to decorate for Christmas? I have never decorated before Thanksgiving and I'm sure my husband will have a fit, if I decorate earlier, but I have had these random crazy thoughts of decorating some towards the end of the week. Maybe just decorating my gazebo and porch area with garland and lights and inside more at Thanksgiving. I don't know yet, it'll depend on what other projects I get involved in and the weather.