Saturday May 26th 2012

Weather is about the same, it is going to get hot today.  Got Linda up early so we could go up to Menards in Cape.  There are a few things I want to pick up.  Probably get some stuff I don’t need either, can’t believe I would do anything like that or Linda either!

We got up to Cape around 9AM and the parking lot was packed!!  I mean packed!  We finally found a place to park and went into the store, they don’t have any carts!  I wandered around the store for awhile and decided that the only way to get a cart was to go outside and find one that someone is unloading.  I sure wonder how much Menards will bring in today.  Their sale goes through Monday and you get eleven percent off your purchase.  It is a mail in rebate but what the heck, I found my Black and Decker Drill for $34 which is $15 lower than Wal Mart and I will get eleven percent back off that so I bought two of them.  Sure hope they work good.  They have a 2 year warranty and that seems like plenty for me!

Linda bought some folding chairs, lawn chairs, for about $4 apiece.  She got four of them.  Hope they work good!  I guess we should try one but I guess sitting in something is always better that than standing or sitting on the ground.

I bought a new shallow well pump.  Both the ones I have work, but I don’t think they work good and I’m sure hoping it isn’t the well that is the problem.

Linda bought some more LED lights (solar) for outside.  I put them up after I got my new drill charged. The drill works great. The lights after dark change colors, green, red and blue I think.  They aren’t real bright but I think they will be nice.

Me and my new drill…

Sparky has his tongue stuck on the drill bit!! Not really, I believe he thinks it is a toy or something to eat.

Taking it easy tonight. It is really hot outside. I feel sorry for the stray dogs, they get so hot and looks like they have a hard time keeping cool. They are irrigating and I think they need to go stand in the water for awhile. They don’t do that though. There is a small creek, branch, down the road and I think they go there and swim for awhile. They usually come back very wet!

Well, got to go….Night Y’all…

Friday May 25th 2012

The weather is getting warmer.  It is OK in the morning but not cool.  If it would stay like this all day it would be pretty good.  I tried opening the house because it was about 69 degrees outside and 77 inside but it didn’t cool it off so I had to close it up again.  Going to get hot today.

I’m not going to do much today.  I did work on the pump house just a little but not much.  I put hinges on the lid so I wouldn’t have to take it off anymore.  It works pretty good and now I just have to insulate it and tighten it down.

I took a picture of the flowers that are blooming..

Linda says they are Star Gazer Lilies, whatever they are they have beautiful blooms on them.

We are pretty much taking it easy today, it is actually to hot to do much of anything.

We stayed home all day and watched TV and played on the computer the rest of the time.  Time to say Night Y’all…

Thursday May 24th 2012

Work again today!  It is supposed to get nice and warm today.  I am just going to do odd jobs this morning.  Had a slat to put in the fence and picked up some more branches and was going to mow but I let Grant do that and I got the weed eater and cut down some weeds that Roundup will not kill.  We have about three kinds of weeds that Roundup doesn’t do a thing to except maybe fertilize  them!

I just keep on weed whacking until I run out of fuel.  It does look a lot nicer because these weeds grow a lot faster than the grass.

This afternoon we took the tractor and went over to the mobile home park and knocked down a couple of trees and cleaned them up and took them to the burn pile.  We were going to burn the pile but the wind is blowing like crazy today.  We got four trees cut down and cleaned up and filled in the hole where the roots were.  Looks pretty good now.  We were pretty tired and we finished right around 5PM.  We were all pretty tired.

I was going to fix the water bib at home when I got home but that will have to wait, I’m just to tired to do it today.

Just relaxed and tried to stay awake tonight.  Rough!  Time to say Night Y’all…

Wednesday May 23rd 2012

Back to work today.  It was nice having five days off.  Didn’t get all the things done that I figured I would but that’s OK I’m retired!

Stopped at the Super 8 for coffee this morning.  They have pretty good coffee.

Grant was there and he started Monday.  He worked at the cell phone store and then yesterday he worked in the office in the afternoon.  He needs to make a little money to get his truck fixed and then have some spending money at college next year.

I had some limbs that I had to finish picking up then I sprayed Roundup etc. I think this is going to be a long day.  After lunch I was going to mow but the little mower just isn’t running right.  Grant and I pickup up limbs in the park that were blown down Sunday during our little wind storm.  That didn’t take to long so after that I went around and picked up papers etc.  Hurts my shoulders doing that.

I sprayed some more Roundup and figured it was about time to go home.  Planned that just about right.

I planted some Gladiolas around the stumps and I planted them pretty deep, probably about six inches or so and they are up already!  Not much more than a week.  After reading the package I guess they are an annual plant but hopefully they will come back again next year!

Not much to look at, kind of like a big blade of grass.

Here are some more of our perennial flowers…

Not sure what they are but they look nicer than the weeds!

Well, I’m going to sign off now and relax….Night Y”all…

Tuesday May 22nd 2012

I don’t feel like working on the pump house today, I also need to get some more material for the pump house so I think we will go to Cape and to the new Menard’s and pick up some things we need.

I decided to take the camper up because if we buy some 4x8 sheets of Styrofoam we can’t bring it home in the car.  Well, on the way up we decided to stop at Youngblood’s RV to see about trading.  I didn’t figure we would trade but thought we would look anyway.  We found one we liked but there was no way to make a trade and I still like ours even though it is small.  We will keep it!

We went on up to Menard’s and I got everything I needed, yeah, right.  I was going to buy a Black and Decker cordless drill that was on sale but come to find out it isn’t on sale until Saturday.  I think we may go back up there on Saturday.  If they still have the drill it is a good buy, more than likely they won’t.  Do you think I’m a pessimist?

The camper did fine going up there.  We need to take it out more often just to keep it in shape.

Brenna sent Linda some flowers a year or two ago and Linda found some bulbs so I planted them.  They didn’t come up last year but they did this year…

They really look nice but I’m sure they won’t last very long.

We took it easy the rest of the day.  I need to get an outside faucet so I can water the tomatoes and the flowers.  Won’t be tomorrow, I have to go to work.

Well, time to say Night Y’all….

Monday May 21st 2012

Back to work on the pump house.  This isn’t going to be fun I don’t think.  I am definitely not looking forward to this.

I need insulation for the inside and I am trying to figure out how to do it so I will be able to get to it and shut it off (the pump) when we go and leave the light on and make it easy to get to.  Not going to be easy, the top is going to weigh a ton. Oh well, as long as it doesn’t freeze I guess that it will be OK.

I put some bagged cement on the bottom and trying to get some boards screwed down I must have moved the tank because I have a little drip (leak) now.  Well, I knew this wasn’t going to be easy.

They started irrigating the cotton field across the road.  Really looks neat I think..

They run water down every other row and I think they call it flooding.  The fields are graded so the water flows to the other end.  We don’t have any hills to speak of and this really works good.

Well, this afternoon I decided to quit early and before I did I moved the old freezer to the neighbors yard….not really I moved it behind the garage and with my redneck technology I moved it by myself and it only took a few minutes….

It moved quite well with a couple of pieces of large PVC pipe.  Now I have to figure out how to get it hauled off to the junk yard.

I think we may go to Cape tomorrow to Menards to get a some insulation etc for my project.  I like Menards, seems like they have pretty good prices and I’m sure Linda will want to do something.

Going to take it easy tonight (again).  We fixed a pizza for supper.  Red Baron.  Not to bad.  Well, guess it’s Night Y’all….

Sunday May 20th 2012

Not going to do anything today except go to church if I don’t have to.  The pump seems to be working OK and I haven’t seen a lake outside so I guess it isn’t leaking to bad.  I will take it apart tomorrow and do more work on it (the pump house).

Sunday School and Church were fine.  Tom had both services today.  I’m not sure what is going on because I wasn’t there Wednesday night.  Pastor was called to do a Revival in Chicago and Josh, the Youth Pastor, must be on vacation.  No one seems to know for sure.  Tom was our Sunday School teacher for awhile and he did a great job preaching the services.

We relaxed today not doing much of anything but playing on the computer and watching a little TV  I think I have a picture that Linda took of me and Sparky in our new chair…

Sparky likes it and Linda says that I sleep pretty good in it! 

This afternoon was really windy!  Not sure how hard the wind blew but I took a picture of the dust again..

Kind of hard to see the tree line in between the trees.  That tree line isn’t all that far away!

When I went to church tonight it was cloudy and really dark over Sikeston.  Don’t figure we will get any but I was wrong!  It rained all during church and it rained hard.  Hopefully we got some at home.

I had to run through the rain to get to the car after church and there was a lot of water standing.  Well, we got some here at home.  Not like Sikeston but we got a lot!  Now it is supposed to be cool for a couple of days then get really hot again.  Oh well, it is getting close to summer!

Taking it easy again tonight.

Linda’s brother, Bobby, is in pretty bad shape, he lives in Amarillo.  Her sister Marilyn is in pretty bad shape, she lives in Sterling.  Her brother Eugene is in bad shape, he lives in California and Marilyn’s son Kirby just had surgery for cancer and he isn’t in very good shape.  We talked about all that tonight and it is kind of depressing.  I’m not sure what Linda will do if I go first.  The kids have families and are super busy.  She doesn’t have much of a family back in Sterling and no family or friends here in Sikeston.  Now that is kind of depressing but we know that God will provide. Just isn’t something we like to think about.

OK now after all that depressing stuff I guess it is time to go to bed…Night Y’all…