Beautiful Sunset

Sunset in this part of the world are just gorgeous...

Chilling Out

New California Dr

Just a pic snapped on a walk around the neighborhood:

Plain City Dusk

Yuriy snapped this pic with his phone on our way home yesterday... I wish this was done with better camera so it could be printed out... Breathtaking:

New California Woods: Sunset

One of many pics we snap on our walks around the neighborhood:

What a nice place we live in :)

Moon, Jupiter and Venus

As I mentioned before, we often go on long walks around neighborhood. Sometimes we get to encounter something as remarkable as this: Moon, Jupiter and Venus forming a nice triangle. Sorry for the quality of the picture, this is as good as I could get with my phone at night.

This picture is taken at 20 June 2015 at 9:56pm around New California Hills neighborhood.

Few Pics from Walk Around

The weather here is gorgeous last few days, so we walk around the neighborhood every moment we get. And snap tons of pics which usually get on facebook, but I can share some here too. These are from yesterday:

More Skies

We did these photos an evening ago while running/walking around the neighborhood. But pics don't even do it a justice, that sky is just amazing, I don't know why it looks this way some times but it is just amazing.

New California's Skies

The skies here in US are amazing, huge, and every time different. I think I can make a picture every day when coming from work, and every time it will be amazing...

See below for yourself:

New California's Sky

I took this photo almost a year ago, but it somehow failed to make it to the blog. So this is me fixing this issue.

New California Dr Wild Life

It does look that some of these photos which we made long time ago never made it to the blog (for some reason). Or I simply can't find them.

These are cute animals which along with raccoons and others work hard on entertain Stalone and Shiva.

Humming birds (it is shame that this nice bush didn't produce much flowers this year, I hope it still will next year):

Deers is something pretty usual here... I saw a deers walking around neighborhood and eating flowers from ppl flower beds... They are still pretty cute though:

I love chipmunks - positive little creatures. They always greet me at driveway when I come home. I had one of these stash his load of berries in my shoe (we leave shoes in garage when it is warm):

I don't remember the story how Yuriy came across this little frog, but he brought it home, made a pic of it, and them brought it back. Sometimes we have some tiny frogs hanging on the glass door. Don't know what's up with that:

I can't say I like these too much. I scream and run every time I meet one of them. But I guess they need place to live too:

Musecoons Coons Join the Family

Today they are 6 months old, brother and sister of Musecoons Cattery, Stallone and Shiva.

While we were waiting for them to grow up enough to be ready to leave their mom, maine coon beauty Gabrielle, we grow so accustomed to the names given to them by the breeder, that we decided to not change these, some ppl find them funny actually.

Here is a video to remind me first days of them at home back in May:

Happy birth day, fluffy tails!

New California Wildlife: Raccoons

So, I guess that is what you get when leave home for long and then don't have much time to pay an attention to it for a while

You get a family of cute, fluffy, stripe-tail and tree-climbing creatures under your deck.

The internet says I shouldn't be so happy...

It also suggests a lot of humane wild animal removal services to pick from.

However these ones didn't do any harm just yet:

Raccoon-mama is more interested into inspecting nearby woods, and raccoon-babies are checking squirrel feeders like they know where nuts should be.

But after all, who said that stealing somebody else's food is the squirrel only job?..

I said "checking", like they are doing it over and over again, which isn't quite true: we only saw them climbing once so far.

It probably was their first time out from the nest. They were so excited that didn't notice neither us making pictures nor the fact that mama escaped to the nest because she saw us first.

See these and couple more of other stripy-tail pictures on Yuriy's blog.

Squirrel of the Month: February 2012

I wished for more squirrels and I got some. And I decided to share pics of some funny ones with you.

Meet the "Miss Back Yard February'12":

Merry Christmas to Everyone!

It doesn't feel much like a Christmas when it is 24th of December, -2C/35F outside of the window, welcoming sun and no snow... Does it?

So we are trying to take it easy these holidays: no big parties, not much alcohol, and hopefully not much food... But we will see how it goes.

In plans for today is to cook Ukrainian traditional Christmas Lenten Borscht with Mushroom Dumplings

Let's see who gets lucky pepper dumpling this year :)

Plain City Steam Threshers Show 2011

It looks like the only usual thing about Ohio weather is that is it always unusual. Since more than 2 weeks now it is unusually hot: wet, nothing-to-breathe, ever-sweating hot. And you can consider yourself lucky if your working day, full of running from 100F sauna outside to 75F AC-indulged fridge and back, ends up with no headache.

So after reading that you can probably imagine how very much motivated I was to go outside and watch a parade of Plain City Steam Threshers Show 2011 which took place at North Chillicothe St thru West Main St to Pastime Park, at friday around 6pm.

But since that kind of events are happening only once per year, and we are so new to whole Plain City life, we decided to jump on it and even heat couldn't prevent us from having fun.

The parade was the main event of the Friday, there were many tractors, tracks, cars, renovated and modern, and of course a lot of kids hunting for candies. Yuriy took a lot of pictures.

Second day was more about tractor pull, that was something I never seen before. I think some people lost their tracks there trying to pull that heavy sledge. But it was for sure fun to watch.

Yuriy actually manager to get second and third places on video, the first place in progress is on the picture above.