Bull Shoals - White River State Park

The other day we went to the Bull Shoals – White River State Park Visitor’s Center With Adriana and Kai and then we went to Brown’s Beach to swim and have a pizza picnic.

Bull Shoals Dam

Inside the Visitor's Center

Brown's Beach

Greetings

More music on the square

Means dancin' with my girls

With all this rain ...

The creek's a flowin' and everything's a growin'

The kids playing in the creek

Adriana and Kai enjoying the countryside

Veggie's everywhere

The dogs getting some action too

Water the new gold

Hank

Judith

Emerson

Walking through the creek bed

Enjoying the cool evening breeze

The Cook

Our friends Adriana and Kai from Hollywood came for a visit

Our new Guineafowl

We got 4 guinea fowl from our egg lady Louise yesterday and introduced them to our flock.

The flock wasn’t as accepting as we hoped so we separated them out and we’ll try again in a day or two.

A & W

Echo the man

The snake days of summer

As we enter into August we enter into copperhead season which means they can be anywhere like under the dog crate or by the cabin.

Our friend caught 8 in one night slithering around her house. We caught one under Molly’s dog crate and re-located it back to the woods.

The reason for the re-location is its actually again-the-law to kill a venomous snake in the state of Arkansas. To some that may not make sense but they are predatory and have a very important role in our eco system such as keeping the rodent population down.
Echo was doing the “talking on the cell phone walking back and forth thing” when he almost stepped on one by the cabin.

I guess many would be packing their bags by now but it just part of living in the Ozarks.

Progress … I guess you can’t avoid it!

Since we have lived on our homestead we have used 3 different roads to get back to the property. As new buyers bought the front parcels we kept having to change our route to get home.

Once the all the front parcels were sold the back two properties became land locked and the sellers agreed to put in a road which will be started within the month.

We’ll still have a good ole fashion country road for the last ¼ mile back but the first ¼ mile from the highway will be gravel.

Progress …I guess you can’t avoid it!

View of the perspective road looking towards the highway

View of the perspective road from the highway looking back 

Quite romantic isn't it?