King of the hill

Isn't he gorgeous? I sure hope the hunters won't get him this season. I'm not sure about the deer, but the elk-season starts the 10th of October.

We've been told it will get fairly busy up here with hunters driving around, trying to find 'huntable' acreage, even asking if they can use your land.

There's a season for each gender, like for this little doe, and even for the different seizes of 'spikes' on the bucks.

But for now everything is still very peaceful up here and I am the only one that is 'shooting' anything.

What I really like about this area is its variety. 

During my walks I can be walking around in a heavy forest at one moment:

 And in a wide open meadow, the next:

Like I said on Facebook, there's so much blessed breathing room up here! You're so far removed from the busy rat-race, you'd almost forget it exists!

Life is easy here. Simple, straightforward and peaceful.

I take it!

For some reason I start to see lots of turkeys at the moment:

Weird, I didn't see any over the summer and now they're all around us.

Don't they know 'Turkey-day' is coming up soon?

If I were one, now would be the time I'd go into hiding!

We start to see more and more progress at the job-site now. 
Things are 'coming together' as they say.
We had to make a little bit of a mad dash with the painting, since the carpet guys were coming over yesterday, but we made it!

  
 The red under-floor ..

And the carpet .. 

The result is amazing!

                 What a difference a little bit of carpet makes!

 

Still a lot to do, but we're getting there.
Things should move along a little faster now by the way, since we have a new helper since Monday. 
His name is Allen, he's an older gentleman, but he seems (still) capable enough, so we hope he'll stay for a while.
Moving forward!

On a totally different note, here's a thing about Facebook, sometimes you learn something from it .. gasp!
Like this ingenious bread-toaster hack:

                     

Set it on its side, and it becomes a perfect little toaster-oven to heat up your left-over pizza slices!

I also tried a couple of Facebook's recipes, like these apple dumplings:



Super easy with crescent dough (from a can)!
And eggplant roll-ups:

Filled with ricotta cheese, delicious and also very easy to make!
And last but not least, and this is actually my own idea, banana-raisin bread with cinnamon and walnut:

 

Talking about good .. mmm

There's something about when the days are getting cooler, that I start to feel more and more like cooking and baking .. comfort food especially.
And it is getting a lot cooler at the moment. 
This whole week has been in the 60s, with even a little bit of rain here and there, and the last two days it stayed in the 50's with nights in the 40s!

You don't hear me complain, I'm a 'Fall-girl', let's bring it on!