A Little of This and That

So this weekend was the start of the "backyard project." A project that has grown and taken on a life of it's own. This is my nephew Nick with a sledgehammer tearing down the old wooden fence. It was more work then they thought it would be. I watched from the house. LOL
So the fence is down and the two tier deck will be coming down next. And a paver patio will be put in place of the decks. I am so hoping to have a little fountain /pond with fish in it. This project will probably be done in stages since it is bigger then we originally thought.
Here's the new fence that was put in today. It looks like wrought iron but it is really aluminum. I LOVE it. It has nice clean lines and looks so much better then that old wooden thing that was falling down. Ignore all the debris on the pool cover, it is from when hurricane Ike paid us a visit last month. We will eventually landscape around the pool but have not decided what to put there yet. I really want some tall grasses or something with privacy.

And look who came visiting in my neighborhood early Saturday morning. We hardly ever see deer around in our yard anymore so I was surprise to see these two eating apples from our neighbor's apple tree. Don't they look like they are posing for me?

All the grandkids were over this afternoon so I thought it would be fun to try and get a photo of all of them with Grandma and Papa by the big pumpkin. WRONG LOL Maddie was not happy at first but the second try was a little better. Ignore how messy I look, I'm holding little Cameron and Sydney is sitting in the little chair in front of us.
And look who flew directly over my house today while we were out trying to get the grandkids pumpkin photo. Click on this last photo and you'll recognize the plane. Yes, that is Air Force One. The President was in town. We live directly on the flight path to the Cincinnati airport, in fact we've seen our home quite a few times when we have come in for a landing. We knew something was up when it got real quiet and no planes were landing. The only time that has ever happen before was 9/11, it's weird when you are so used to planes landing all the time and then we heard a plane and it was the President and so I took this photo. I have a super zoom on one of my cameras and I seen him waving to me. :-) Anyway, that's it for me today, off to bed. Have a good one.