Spotty-ewe in reply to Barbara17

Thanks Barbara. That must have been amazing watching a competition. 🤩The chips were flying I bet! 😆 Hubby has now treated himself to a chainsaw with a carving blade to make things easier so I’m hoping for more to come.🤞 Have a wonderful Easter Barbara. 🤗😘x

Spotty-ewe in reply to MEGS53

Thank you Meg. And yes a chocolatey Easter has begun!😋 😆 Have a good one yourself . 🙏🏻 Take care. 🤗😘xx

Spotty-ewe in reply to CecilyParsley

Thank you so much Cecily. It is the most attractive part of our garden!😂🤣 So I’m encouraging him to make more items 🤞 Thank you for your Easter wises too Cecily and I hope you, Neil and the boys have a fun filled weekend. Love and hugs. 🤗😘xx🥚🐣🐥🐇🐑💐🍫🐻

CecilyParsley in reply to Spotty-ewe

Thank you so much. I hope your hubby does make more, when you have a talent like that it deserves to be displayed in nature xxx

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Spotty-ewe in reply to CecilyParsley

👍🏻👍🏻😘🤗🙏🏻💐xxxx

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Spotty-ewe in reply to daisydayz

Aww, thank you Daisy. 😘 I will show hubby your comments, and everybody else’s, as it will encourage him to try sculpturing more things. 🙏🏻 Are your woodpeckers greater spotted? Ours are and they are beautiful birds aren’t they? Harey Easter to you and Horace! 🐰 😆 Hugs 🤗😘x

daisydayz in reply to Spotty-ewe

Yes Spotty the beautiful greater spotted woodpecker 😘 & we do occasionally get the larger green woodpecker on our grass... he's more nervous, but both are a delight to see💛 Have collected a few of their discarded spotty feathers 🙂

Hope your hubby continues his sculpting..he's very talented.

Hugs back X

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Spotty-ewe in reply to daisydayz

Haha, I’ve collected some of the greater spotted woody’s feathers too. 👍🏻 We don’t get the green woodpeckers in our area, so you are blessed to have both. Thanks for posting a picture of the feathers - they are lovely. Yes, hubby’s planning a squirrel next out of the stump of a beech tree he felled 2 years ago. It is still in the ground so should be interesting how he avoids tramping on the flowers I planted around it. 😆 Take care Daisy 🤗😘x

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daisydayz in reply to Spotty-ewe

Haha snap😄 a squirrel sounds wonderful👍

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Spotty-ewe in reply to daisydayz

👍🏻👍🏻🐿 🤗😘x

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Spotty-ewe in reply to suzannah16

He’s planning a squirrel next, but has a few other projects he wants to do first. Happy Easter Suzannah. 🤗x

suzannah16 in reply to Spotty-ewe

will be waiting for a picture

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Spotty-ewe in reply to suzannah16

👍🏻👍🏻😁

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Spotty-ewe in reply to Pumpkin2009

Thanks so much for your kind words Pumpkin. 👍🏻 Hubby had his open heart surgery almost 3 years ago and is not bad at present thank you. He’s just waiting to find out what can be done for his very fast heartbeat which he’s had since an ablation for AF last October. You are right about not wasting creative talent and I encourage him to do more as long as he’s not lifting very heavy weights and over-doing it. He is 69 in May so needs to remember that too. 😂. He is outside casting concrete steps down to the wee burn at the back of our property today. 🙄 You can’t keep a good man down! 🤣 Enjoy the rest of your Easter weekend Pumpkin. 🤗x

Spotty-ewe in reply to Horsewhisper

Hubby says to thank you for your kind words HW. Yes, the sculpture is at the front of the house right beside the lane but as there are only 2 houses beyond us it is only the neighbours who see it. But they have told him they love it, so he’s chuffed. He will hopefully start his next project soon, but he has a lot of garden projects he’s working on because our narrow but long garden is slowly slumping into the burn. So he’s put in several gabion baskets which he started on last spring while I was taking the ivy off the hawthorn hedge (when I came across the dunnocks nest) and he’s begged stone, old bricks and rubble from neighbours and used it to fill them. Luckily a cottage nearby is being totally refurbished so a lot of stone etc has come from there. BUT that means lifting it all into our trailer and then lifting it out again here and barrowing it down to the gabions. Heavy work. But he’s taking it slowly and assures me he’s fine! 🙄 Have you been up to any creations in the kitchen or with your paint pens lately? Enjoy the rest of your Easter HW. Love and hugs. 🤗😘x

Spotty-ewe in reply to tillie

Thank you Tillie, you too. 🤗x

Spotty-ewe in reply to Josiah150767

And to you Josiah. 🥚🐣🐥x

Spotty-ewe in reply to Jmiller623

Hi JM, that is so funny and so typical of week ones isn’t it! 😂 I do love bears (not that I’d ever want to meet one face to face!) so it was lovely to see. Hubby was stationed on Vancouver Island for a couple of years in the 1990s and I used to go out to see him and we came across a black bear scratching itself in the middle of a road into Port Hardy. It was so funny. Lovely creatures. Thanks so much for sharing. I hope you are keeping okay 🙏🏻 and that you enjoy the rest of the Easter weekend. Have fun! 🥚🐰🐻🤗x

Spotty-ewe in reply to Kevin53

Many thanks Kevin. Enjoy the rest of your Easter weekend. 🤗

Spotty-ewe in reply to stiff19

Thank you Stiff from both of us.👍🏻👍🏻 Hoping you and yours have a great one too.🙏🏻🥚🐣🐥🐰💐🐑🍫xx

Spotty-ewe in reply to misty14

Thank you Misty . I’ll look forward to hearing from you after Easter. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Love and hugs, 🤗😘🥚🐣🐥🍫🙏🏻💐🐰xx

misty14 in reply to Spotty-ewe

🙂🍫💕🙂🐣🙂🐣💕🍫💕🐣🙂💕🍫Xx

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Spotty-ewe in reply to thestorm

Thank you so much Stormy. Hubby bought me a plaque for inside the house that says “A grizzly bear and his honey live here”. 😂 I love it. I hope you, hubby and the newly groomed and very smart looking Storm, enjoy the rest of your Easter holiday. Love, hugs and blessings to all 3 of you. 💕🤗🙏🏻🥚🐰🐑🍫💐xx

Spotty-ewe in reply to Krazykat26

Thank you Kat. Kind and encouraging words from one who knows.👍🏻👍🏻 He’s only ever dabbled before now and this was his first large project, so he’s chuffed it is finished at last. How long it will last with a rotten back to it we don’t know, but we and the woodpeckers will enjoy it for however long it lasts. 😂 He’s busy reinforcing the banks of the wee burn that flows down the side of our garden at present, but I’m hoping he’ll start a new chainsaw project for enjoyment soon. He finds it very satisfying and therapeutic. I bet you must miss your chainsaw carvings Kat, but if you still have any of your sculptures you should post them as I’m sure we’d all love to see them, my hubby included. 🤩Wishing you, hubby and your wee dug a very Happy Easter. Love and hugs, 💕🤗😘🥚🐣🐇🐑🐰💐🍫xx

Spotty-ewe in reply to svfarmer

Thank you SV. Hubby feels so encouraged by all the lovely comments about his sculpture.👍🏻 Enjoy the rest of your Easter weekend. 🐇🐰🥚🐑💐🍫x

svfarmer in reply to Spotty-ewe

Thankyou you too 😘

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