I found out this past Fall that a beaver, or beaver family, had built a dam under this bridge. A neighbor had mentioned it to me and said that it was preventing the water from flowing under the bridge.
Sure enough a couple of days later I saw a tractor on the bridge and knew what they were doing. They removed the dam.
I don’t know what the poor beavers did, but they hopefully chose a better place to build and got their new house build before the winter. New England Winter Postcards
It’s one of my favorite spots to take pictures. The views from the bridge or towards it are all beautiful and I used up my camera battery all too quickly.
It feels like I’ve been getting nowhere fast lately.
Just a few months ago I was rising at 3am and working for 3 peaceful, quiet hours before my son got up to go to school. I was getting so much accomplished! Now thanks to hot flashes and new cats that like to play through the night, I get up groggily at 6am.
My son comes home at 3pm and my “work” day pretty much ends only to begin the evening chores of homework (his) and cooking.
Then came the holidays, which stole my valuable work time and the 2 week Christmas vacation. When my son went back to school he made it through 2 1/2 days and came home sick with the flu. It wasn’t bad, just enough for him to be home again for 5 days. Of course that created lots of make up homework which is his FAVORITE thing!!! He’s the kind of kid who will twirl his pencil and sputter about his horrible teacher instead of doing the work and getting it over with. A homework paper that should take 10 minutes takes him 30.
We’ve had some snow storms lately and that gave him another day off to spend at home and by then I had pretty much fallen so far behind in my work that it didn’t really matter.
So today I opted for a walk. It’s been far too long since we had nice enough weather, and although the road is a bit treacherous if a car comes along, I figured there wouldn’t be much traffic at 7:30am.
I knew that the snow on the trees wouldn’t last so I took all I could before the battery died. I wanted to add more photos, but the site is freezing up when I try, but I got one posted. I’ll be adding more as I can.
Today is a busy day and although I’d love to add more to this post, I have to get going before the school day ends. My landlord has a metal roof on the house and it becomes “fun” to try and get in and out when the edge of the snow build up begins to hang low. She says that she loves the roof because she used to have to hire someone to shovel it. I understand that, but it seems a bit dangerous once the icy build up begins to slide off.
And it does slide off like an avalanche! You never know when, but suddenly there is a rumble and all that snow and ice gives way and falls with a crash.
When the snow builds up like this and then gets warm from the sun, ice forms under the snow. Eventually all that stuff on the roof lets go.
We stop using this back door when things look bad and go in the front.
This photo was taken over the past summer. It’s just a bunch of bikes in the driveway but it reminded me of the fun my son had over the summer while his 3 friends lived up the road.
When we moved into our rental, I was thankful that some good friends lived just down the road and there were 2 boys who my son could hang out with.
Then the man who ran the Girl Scout camp moved out and a new family moved in there. My son and I were happy to hear that they had 3 boys around the same age as my son. Now he had 5 friends close by! It was awesome.
Those boys turned out to be an enormous blessing in my son’s life. He had been facing a lot of changes and having all these friends brightened his life greatly. The boys were at my house all the time and I would take them to the lake to skim board and swim.
I usually drew stares as I’d pull into the parking lot at the beach and six loud boys would pile out of the back of my car.
Although my son has 3 siblings, they are all grown and he is more like an only child so having great friends was the best thing for him. He had nice friends to bike ride and swim with. They played croquet in the back yard and were always in the back bedroom playing video games. Sometimes my son would go to their house and jump on the trampoline. They had a great time together and I appreciated the fact that they were such nice kids.
Then one day the 3 boys said they were going back to Tennessee for a visit. They came by to say good bye to us and my son was disappointed that they would be gone for a while, but that turned into shock when they called us from TN and said they were moving back there and would not be returning!
The family had only been here for the summer to run the Girl Scout camp and apparently didn’t like it here and missed their old home. The older boy did return with his dad to pack up so my son was able to hang out with him for a couple of weeks and then say good bye, but the whole thing was very odd. And my son was devastated to have lost 3 of his best friends. He still prays at night that his friends will move back one day.
It’s a hard lesson in life that nothing stays the same. I believe that adversity, sadness and troubles come our way to help mold us and strengthen us for whatever lies ahead in life. But my son is just sad- still.
When I came across this photo I wondered why I had taken it. But I guess there was a good reason.
