Magnus Mouse is sitting by the knitting books hinting that he needs clothes.

View from the back deck yesterday around 5.30pm.  The closed in back porch is my favorite place to sit and stitch, knit etc.  In the summer, I bring out my sewing machine.   

No blade of grass will be safe after DH taught me kow to use the zero turn ride on lawn mower yesterday.  This is a flood plain that's on the other side of the first pic.  We will see how well I did in a few days after the grass starts to grow.

We're in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the house sits on the side of a hill.  It gives a perfect view of all the comings and goings of deer, possums, groundhogs and birds.