Some of these photos didn’t fit into my dialog during the past six weeks,

so, I made a post from this variety of shots.

The Junco’s are back. I hadn’t been faithful in feeding the birds during the summer for a variety of reasons. I was busy and there was avian flu in several chicken houses in our area – and birds can carry that. I didn’t want to be part of endangering our neighboring chicken houses.

Some are messy eaters. 🙂

Junco’s coloring is not brilliant like some birds, but I still enjoy seeing their pretty feathers.

I was fascinated by the pretty fog in our valley a few days ago. The photo doesn’t look as pretty as the real thing.

We were getting suspicious that there was going to be an Amish wedding in the area by the activity at Eli and Saddie’s place. One rainy day the bench wagon went by our house – adding to that suspicion. We came home the next evening to see about two dozen buggies still parked in various places around the farm, so expect that was the wedding day. We were not home, most of the day, so missed seeing the horses and buggies going by our house.

There was a Spotted Lanternfly on our kitchen window one evening. I don’t like seeing them in our woodlot, but they are kind of pretty. It seemed kind of confused by the texture of a window. They like to climb on trees.

It was sometime near the end of September when the guys who were hired to repair barn doors and put siding on the old barn at the homestead began their work.

This barn was built somewhere between 1875 and 1888 when it was owned by my great-great grandpa John Hershey. He bought the farm in 1875 and rented it to a farmer until 1888. During that time the barn burnt down when some boys were experimenting with matches. A new barn was built.

The old wooden barn has been remodeled, expanded, painted and repaired many times during the years when it was owned by my great grandpa Jacob Hershey, my grandpa Milton Hershey, my dad Bruce Hershey, my brothers Dale, Clair and Steve Hershey and now our nephew and niece Larry and Karen Dull and their son Travis and his wife, Steph.

By now it was time to do some major repairs and siding.

The Dull’s have been doing this gradually. They put siding on the north side several years ago, then a year or two later they did the side facing east. The roadside (western) needed more work and is now finished. I expect they will repair and put siding on the southern side (feeding lot) in the next year or two.

I have been around this barn for 78 1/2 years and have never seen it looking so good. Larry said he now has to turn on the lights when he goes inside because there are no broken or missing boards to let the sunlight through. 🙂

Late yesterday afternoon, our grandson Jordan stopped in to show us this nice rack, pictures and a video of his hunt. He knew how to transfer the video and pictures from his cell phone to the TV. Oh, that was fun. I loved Zach’s comments. He was in a tree stand next to Jordan’s and was the photographer. It looked and sounded like a professional hunting video. Good job, Jordan, on a successful archery hunt in Potter County, PA.

Today our son Jere and their youngest son Jesse installed some used shelves in our shed. We feel like we have a new shed! Cerwin had fun filling the shelves. I even got a shelf (second from bottom on the left with blue bucket.) That is some of my gardening things.