Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it...stop snowing!

As I am sure everyone knows, we were hit hard by a snow storm on Friday. They tend to exagerate the amount, and even the fact that we will get snow around here, so we didn't rush to the store to buy all the bread and milk like everyone else in Western North Carolina. This is the time we should have actually listened though! Thankfully we had enough supplies in the house, and made it through just fine. We lost power for about 25 hours or so, and were without cable for 3 days. We just got it back about 2 hours ago! We made the best out of being stuck at the house with no power. The camping equipment, and the turkey fryer came in handy! Saturday morning consisted of coffee, and grilled cheese sandwiches over the turkey fryer!

Tom whipped us up some hillbilly sleds, as you will see below. Unfortunately those did not work well, but the neighbor kid had 2 sleds and he was more than happy to share with us! If you have ever been to our house, you know our driveway would be PERFECT for sledding. It did not dissappoint! Tom and I spent hours sledding down the driveway and laughing like little kids!
We built a quick snowman, but didn't spend much time on him and he remained faceless. The sleds just kept calling our names!

Oh, and of course the dogs loved the snow! Maggie always enjoys the snow, and I have been waiting to see what she would do in deep snow. Here are the pictures.....enjoy!

This first picture of Maggie was taken early Friday afternoon. Take note of the amount of snow on the table behind her.

Saturday Morning.

The classic Hillbilly sled! YeeeHaaawww!!!

Maggie must be looking for snow under the deck. Look how deep it is!
We thought we were going to lose this tree. It was leaning..obviously!

Maggie, licking her snow chops. She is a snow eating machine!

Look at the table now! The dogs were hilarious on the deck when they came out and saw how deep it was. Well, once they figured out how to get up there.
All that wood, and no where to burn it. A fire place sure would have come in handy this weekend!
"The biggest snowball ever"
There goes Tom!
My turn!
Maggie looks like she is jumping head first into the snow. Harely was loving it.
Look how deep it is! I just can't get over it. We have never seen this much snow here.
Awww, after sledding snuggle time. Harley is usualy not allowed on the furniture, but I made an exception. How can you resist his sweet little face?? :)

Poor Maggie. She wants to go out back everytime we go near that door. I keep opening the door to show her that the snow is still there. I can't even get the door open it is so deep back there. I thought this picture just summed it up. The snow was fun on Friday, Saturday, and even some of Sunday, but come on, melt already!

Ah, the Fall.

Well last weekend consisted of taking Harley to the vet, and then watching him to make sure he did not chew this bandage off. Harley broke his nail, and it was cracked way up near his foot. It was so scary looking and nasty, the vet had to sedate him and cut it waaaayy back. (gross!) So here is Harley's bandage. We love our Vet's office! They drew that heart on Harley's bandage.



Harley wasn't very happy after waking up to find this club taped to his foot. Notice the lack of eye contact! I took several pictures, but he would not look at me :( I wasn't even the one who took him to the vet!

My pictures are out of order. Here is Maggie after our hike today. I thought it was funny that she was sleeping with her head on a bag of charcoal. Maggie loves BBQ!

Tom, Seth, and I took all 4 doggies hiking today. It was cloudy, but perfect for hiking. The leaves are just beautiful right now as well!

This is the best we could do at getting all 4 dogs in a picture. It's a circus! Lola, Bear Dog, Harley, and Maggie are BFFs!

The Moser Blog Returns to it's Original Format....Trees and Dogs

Ah, finally back to the original format. Obviously it's been too long since we have had any massive trees to clean up, so we had two big Oak trees taken down today.
Clearly, I am being sarcastic ;) Unfortunately these trees have died, so we had to take them down before they did any damage. This is not really our favorite past time.....despite what it may seem!
This tree was between the driveways.

View from the top of our driveway.

Tom with his trusty chainsaw.

Maggie and Harley supervising.

This was the tree closest to the house. We could see that there were several holes in it that would be perfect homes for the little squirrels that torment Maggie and Harley. We were right. I am sad to say that there was a casualty during the tree cutting today. I was not home to witness it, but Tom says that the squirrel was killed on impact....However, Tom did not realize there had been a casualty until he saw Maggie galloping around the yard, and tossing something furry into the air over and over again. This was the poor guy's comfy little home.

Double stick action.

Well, this picture makes him look tan-ish, but I swear this Wooly Worm was green! I can't remember how the saying goes, but I think the darker Wooly worms mean a bad winter. Is that right? Anyway, I would like to know what a green one means!

and is it "wooly", or "willy" worms??
OH, and I got a new Jeep!!!!!!!!

My new 08 Patriot. The tires are so muddy because it rained for 3/4 of the weekend, and had previously rained for weeks before that!

Here is an after picture. Tom and I (mostly Tom) removed the window vent shade thingys that were above the windows. It looks better without them, and they really block your view when they are on. It took hours to take that sticky stuff off! It was painstaking!

Tom installing my Sirius radio.

Our Jeep Family is complete. Well, almost...Tom wants a Wrangler!

We need a sign that says something about only Jeeps coming up on our hill!

Inside the back.

I love that it has this hard plastic floor.

A Quick Update

Sorry we have been slacking on the blog updates. Here are a few random pictures from the last couple months.

We have had a few interesting visitors this summer. I thought this moth was really neat. The neighbors probably think I'm crazy...I am always taking pictures of the most simple things. I can't help it....I find beauty in the simple things. (although my pictures don't always turn out beautiful!)

Our first, and ONLY camping trip this summer. Can you believe that? Only one camping trip. sooo sad!

The Moser men went to Bristol for a NASCAR race!

The melons! They were tiny, but they were delicious!!!! We have had way too many jalapenos this summer. Tom just picked 47 today!

Another friendly visitor! The picture is not that good. We probably took 20 pictures of this little guy, and just could not get a good one.

Here we are at the "Brewgrass" festival this past Saturday. This event sells out in March or April when the tickets go on sale, and Tom and I have never been able to get tickets. This year we lucked out and got tickets the night before! We had a blast, and hope to make this an annual event for us. They announced another brew fest for May 29, 2010, that will feature different music....not bluegrass. So mark your calendars and get your tickets now!
Now on to the carpet pictures.

Before.......

(Maggie obviously never passes up an opportunity to be in a picture!)

This is our bedroom. This picture really made the carpet look bad...yikes!

AFTER!!!!!

Harley is enjoying it.

Maggie approves. The dogs were so tired by this point. We kept them outside all day while the carpet was being installed, so they were not able to get their routine naps in on that day. By the time the carpet people left, Maggie and Harley could hardly keep their eyes open!

another after pic.

It's blueberry season! Yipee!! We went to our favorite picking spot, and here Harley is, enjoying a nice refreshing swim after having to stay on the leash and watch us pick berries for what must have felt like hours. Usually there is a lot of encouraging and coaxing going on to get Harley to swim, but he went right in and did this all on his own. He is such a good boy!!!

The classic berry picking pose. I think I have a picture of Tom in this pose for about every year we have lived here.