Vale's Thanksgiving Play

Check out our little Indian.

Halloween Video

Thought you might like to see a snippet of our Halloween in motion.  Check out how small Beck's outfit really is and how fast that Buzz can move to get some candy...

Up next, some videos from Beck's last dance creative movement class.  Nothing super exciting, but cute nonetheless.

Oh, and there's a certain little monkey that we're all dying to see pictures of.

Heritage Tour

Last weekend as part of our trip to Doug Starr's daughter's wedding in Lexington, NC, we made 4 side trips.  They were to Regi;s, Miriam's, dad's and my homeplaces.  It was a very special trip.  These are a few of the pictures that we took.  Hope that it brings back some happy memories.  I regret that Melissa, Seung Hwan, and David did not ever get to Greenville. (And David - not even to Hartwell).  Although these pictures can't capture the whole "feeling" of home, they sure did make John and I to relive some happy times.  Enjoy!

Big news of the day was the tree coming out.  Fascinating to watch.  Pondman Todd told me yesterday that I had to choose between the tree or the pond.  They do not play well together.  I chose the pond.

Don't you think that the navy coat hanging over the bird feeder is attractive?  I would have never thought of that!  It definitely keeps the squirrels out...and the birds too, I'm afraid.

I had to hurry and take pictures before the rain started so the project is not completely finished.  Whatever is not finished today will be finished on Monday.  But I think that you can still get a good idea of what it will look like.  We are so happy with it.  And Scott (the main man) said that it will take 1 year for plants to mature. Wow!

Day 3

Yikes!  This was my view as I opened the door of my office this morning!



This was the view from my room for most of the day.



This was the result at the end of 3 long days of work!

AAAHHH!  Beauty...wish I knew how to include an audio to the sound of the water flowing over the rocks.  We will sleep with out door open tonight!
Tomorrow the plants if the rain holds out. Otherwise it will be Monday.  But I will do a final post.

Yard Work - Day 2

Work on Day 2 just ended.  It doesn't look like much change but imagine moving those huge bolders.  That took a lot of planning and execution and rest in between. And as you can see, there is only 1 bolder left to place.  Here are the only pics that I took today.

Backyard Project - Day 1

These pictures are of day one of our back yard project. We are super-excited about getting the water feature fixed and properly integrated into the landscape. We want to post the other three days of the project as they work. Good intentions and all that...
We are also thankful to be able to choose our yard project in 2011. This time in 2009, we had a whole series of projects chosen for us by the monsoon rains.

The project requires the bottom basin of the fountain to be enlarged, new, BIG boulders brought in and a large number of plants either
relocated or planted new.



They began today with digging up all the plants on the hill, enlarging the basin and delivering boulders and plants.





Tomorrow? We don't know.