Happy Hump Day!

1st I need to wish my son's G.F. a

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASH!!

HUGS

I wanted to share today some of the things that I collect, starting with my silver items....

I bought these because they are the initials of my 3 sons. Love them they are about 8" tall. I found them at my local antique mall haunt!!!

I love this mixture of candle holders and bud vases. I added some peacock feathers to snazz it up a little.

I love love love these Bakelite billiard balls. I love numbers 3 & 5. I just popped 4 in there because I loved the purple. The watch in the corner was my mother's. I try to keep things around the house that remind me of her.

I have not considered myself a collector before, but I think I read somewhere that if you have more than 3 of something it is a collection. I will share more of  my collections in future posts.

Have a great hump day!
Cheers
Shel

Another installment of our farm guests.

These little darlings showed up in the middle of the day outside my office. I had to take a double check. This is not typical of Racoons. All I could think was Mom were you sleeping on the job while your little tots went for a walk in the middle of the day? I grabbed my camera and followed them all over the farm snapping pictures, They never noticed me as I stalked them. Oh my goodness the communication between them was priceless...little chirppy sounds they made between each other. One would stray and the other would chirp at it to come closer. I think it was a bossy girl yelling at her brother to stay near.

Oh My Word are you adorable!

So are you!



Brother Sister?
Brother Brother"
Sister Sister?

Bye my little cuties!

Have a great Fat Tuesday!!
Cheers
Shel

Keeping with the theme of our local visitors here on the farm here are a few pictures from our trail cameras on the property. It is such fun to pop in the SD card and find these wonderful creatures. I feel relieved every year they made it through another hunting season.
 Last winter, around dusk, we had a deer parade down our road. I think hubby counted 30 some deer walking in a row down our dead end road. It was crazy. I did not have a good camera so no pictures were taken. That changed this year when I invested in a Nikon 3100 with some great lenses. Now I am armed to take as many pics as I can when the deer have their annual deer parade in front of our house this year. "Excuse me my lovelies can I have you turn this way for a close-up?"
 We have 2 trail cameras on our property and during the hunting season, even with no trespassing signs all over our property some wonderful hunter came  onto our property and stole one of the cameras. I was beyond up-set. First that someone stole the camera but more so that he felt he had the right to come on our land as if entitled to do so. Most of the hunters around here come out from the city and play the great white hunter for x-amount of weeks in Nov-Dec. We learned our lesson and will take them down for the hunting season next year. An as mad as they makes me to do that I don't need to spend that kind of money to just have them stolen again.


Have a wonderful weekend
Cheers
Shel

We live on a 50 acre farm and are blessed to have all types of animals visiting us through out the year. I will be sharing some of the visitors we have had. These were our latest guests.

Guess who's coming to dinner?

Not just one but 5...

You only see 2 but behind those large  pines were 3 more.

Yes this is what we saw one evening. I was sitting at my desk, looked up after seeing some movement in the yard lo an behold there were turkeys all over my bird feeders...I slowly backed away from my desk, grabbed my trusty Nikon an crawled, yes I said crawled on my stomach to the window and started taking pictures of these Divine creatures. Huge would be a understatement, they are unbelievably massive birds. We are lucky to have them all year round but only a few times a year they come that close to the house. In the spring when the windows are open they wake us up with their calls. I love it. 
 And boy do those male birds do a mean dirty dance around the girlies, who basically ignore them, playing hard to get.
A trait in all women and species. LOL

Have a good one...
It's TGIF so have a great weekend
Cheers
Shel

I guessed it worked since we had 40ish weather yesterday an the same is expected of today. See what thinking can do for a person? Just think it and it comes true. Yeah like the weather guru's get it right everyday? I turned off my furnace opened a few wondows and just let my 180 year old house breath some clean fresh air. An may I say it enjoyed it as much as I did.

Here is our home on a early morning fall day last year. I like to take pictures of it certain times of the day an during the changing of the seasons. It really does take on a personality of its own.

Doing lots of Etsy today so pop on over and see the new goodies we are putting up. You never know what you may find on any given day.

Have a good one!

Cheers

Shel

I am active on Etsy so I thought this would be a great avenue to show things that I put up on my 2 stores. My 1st store is called Highpointfarm2010 hense this blog name. I will eventually tell you the real reason It is called that. An I opened another one the next year called 1outanabout. High Point has all the fun items that I shop for around our area. People often ask why I buy the things I buy and I always say that I only buy things that I would showcase in my own home. I am not on the frilly side so generally you won't find that in my store much less in my home. I will talk about the frilly comment another time. The 2nd store is all blankets of all kinds. Love blankets.

Love Love LOVED this one...it just sold to a gal in the U.K.
I am crazy over granny squares

I am always thrilled to find these portable bars..this one is leather an on the small size. I love the bakelite bar wear.



I have collected older religious items for years and loved this sweet bust we are thinking 60ish or 70ish

This is a sweet valet or mens jewlery box..valet makes it sound more maleish..LOL

So there you go a few things that we just popped up on our stores. Take a peek at the stores if you are interested.

I never feel bad shopping my local thrift stores or antique haunts when I have an urge to shop because I never pay to much for things..so I can justify my shopping to myself..LOL Is that a typical girl comment or what?

I am still thinking Spring
And how much I want to see these sweet flowers in my garden this year...
*SIGH*

Have a great day
Cheers

Thinking Spring on a Snowy Valentine's Day

This is how I want our spring to be....flowers and sunshine

But In reality this is how it really is here in Wisconsin today..Burrrr


HAPPY VALENTINE'S TO ALL
FROM COLD WINTERY WISCONSIN
CHEERS!

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1st Entry..an yes I am scared!

Ok this is the first entry for my blog. An I am scared. But also a bit excited to see where this will lead me. So upward and onward.