Friday June 29th 2012

The weather just keeps getting warmer, or maybe I should say “hotter”!  Got to 107 today and that tied the all time record for Cape.  The daily record was 103 and got that by  a few degrees for sure!

Not going to do much today, I have been pulling weeds, a little here and a little there.  Not going to over do it.  Got a couple pictures of the flowers…

These are the Vinca’s and English Daisies that really look like Silver Maple saplings.  I will wait to see if they get flowers.  They are perennials so hopefully they will produce flowers every year.  The Vinca’s look really nice though for going for three weeks without water.. The Impatience though, that is another story…

They actually look pretty good now compared to what they looked like Wednesday.  I think they will come out of it but it’s going to take awhile.  They had a lot of really nice blooms, earlier.

Not going to do much today.  107 is just to warm to be doing much of anything.  Wonder if Mark will work next week if it is this hot???  I presume I will work in the morning.  Round up will probably be wearing off and will need more spray.  May have to spray the sand burrs.  Had to last year, they grow very well in hot dry weather.

I boiled potatoes out in the garage and a dozen eggs.  I wanted Linda to make some more of her potato salad.  This will make a really large batch. For supper we had a sandwich and potato salad, yummy!  Love Linda’s potato salad!  Have enough for a couple of days…

Watched some Olympic trials tonight and I played solitaire on the computer until the battery went dead.  Time for bed anyway…Night Y’all….

Thursday June 28th 2012

According to the weather forecast it is going to get very warm today, in fact for the next week or so it is supposed to be really hot!

When I got up this morning I started messing around with the pump house. I have the corners to put on it and put foam insulation around the lid plus figure out how to get the inside fixed for the winter.  That part can wait, I did get the four corners on the house though…

I know its hard to see what has been done but the outside is finished and now all I have to do is finish the inside.

Went into town today and stopped and got the oil changed, filled up with gas, got Linda’s prescription (after a lot of trouble) stopped at Lowe’s and went to Wal Mart.  All this took about three hours and it is getting pretty warm!!

I bought a new shower head at Lowe’s, not the one I wanted, the one I wanted they had at Menard’s up at Cape.  It was about half the price of the same one here.  I went all out and bought a plastic one for $2.  I will have to give it a try, the spray really looks good and I think it will work.  Probably should buy a couple just to make sure I have a replacement when this gets plugged up or whatever.

Flowers are really funny.  I planted some Impatience and they were really going great and I planted some Vinca’s in the planters in front of the garage.  Well, three weeks without water and the Impatience look like sticks and the Vinca’s really look good!  Three weeks without water!  Guess I will have to get more Vinca’s next year!

Maybe I will add some pictures of the flowers tomorrow.

Time to rest and relax….Night Y’all…

Wednesday June 27th 2012

We made it back home around 12:30PM.  Not a long drive and not a real bad drive.  I think that it is going to get warm, around 90 plus.

We unloaded the car and tried to put a few things away but we really have a pile of stuff to put away.

After putting stuff away and getting the car unloaded I decided to mow the lawn because it had been three weeks and even though it had been very dry and hot the weeds really flourished.  Our lawn looks like the place has been abandoned and surprisingly the neighbors house looks the same way. There is a service that is supposed to take care of that lawn but it looks a lot worse than ours!

We picked up Sparky earlier and he is really glad to be home.  I guess three weeks in the kennel was about enough.  Even when we picked him up he was anxious to get out of there.

Got a picture of us in the recliner…

Believe it or not I took this picture.  Sparky really likes the chair and laying on someone’s lap, doesn’t really matter whose.

We relaxed the rest of the day and tried to get caught up on the energy we used unpacking the car!

More for tomorrow’s blog…Night Y’all…

Tuesday June 26th 2012

Another beautiful day!  Sunny, clear and not hot, yet.  Going to get hot again today.  I think it is hot almost all over the mid U.S.

We stopped at the “Big K Mart” here in Clinton.  Linda’s is having problems. Her back is really hurting, her lip is sunburnt and has a blister and her carpel tunnel is back again.  She hasn’t had to were wrist braces for years and all of a sudden it’s back.  She got some wrist braces and some stuff for her back.  I put a thermo patch on her back and we got on the road.  We made quite a few stops today, I think more than usual but necessary.

We were going to stop in Springfield MO for the night and I missed all the turns to go to motels.  We drove on and we checked out other motels and I’m not about to spend $80 a night for a room in a “cheap” motel even if I am cheap!!  I think we stopped at least four times and most prices ranged from $100 down to $60.  Most of these motels didn’t even have a car parked anywhere around!  We checked a Travelodge and the place was filthy!  That was just the office, I can imagine what the rooms looked like.  When they said $60 per night I left with no regrets.

We stopped at Mountain View at a place we notice every time we go by so we decided to stay the night.  Not cheap, but not real bad, $70, but the place is really nice…

The place is comfortable and very clean.  Linda took the patch off her back and it should have been taken off earlier.  She has a burn spot on her back and a water blister.  We know now that they can’t be worn under anything tight and only for about six hours.  The get very warm!

Not much more to talk about.  Hopefully we will get home tomorrow before it gets to hot.  We will have a lot to do tomorrow for sure.  Night Y’all…

Monday June 25th 2012

We got on the road about 9AM today. Stopped at McDonald’s for something to eat even though the motel has a quick start breakfast. They have toast, cereal and waffles.  I don’t care much for the waffles and didn’t feel like cereal so I thought McDonald’s would be good.  Linda got a sausage muffin and I got a couple sausage egg burritos.  They were really good!  I was surprised!

It is getting warm already and it is still pretty early.  I think it is about 90 degrees and supposed to get warmer.

We filled up with gas before leaving Albuquerque and it was about $3.39 a gallon and as we drove on it got higher.  We filled up in Amarillo and it was $3.19 a gallon and saw it down the road for $3.14 but that is OK it was still a pretty good price.

We had a good day of travel.  Linda read a dog book with very short stories about dogs and their masters to me.  It was very good.  Reminded us of our dog(s).

We were going to stop for the night in Elk City but the price of the motels were just ridiculous. We drove on to Clinton and are staying in a little motel that isn’t the greatest but is clean and looks pretty nice inside.  Smells a lot like Curry!  Wonder why???

I have time to mess around on the computer tonight because Linda is watching the Bachelorette and I just don’t like the show….

Let me see if I can find a picture to put in here…by the way the temperature made it up to 107 degrees and right now it is 104 and it is almost 7PM.  Hope it cools off tonight!!

Dee is kind of like me, gets cold really easy.  This was at El Capitan Campground… Brenna, Kim and Dee

This is still at the campground and was an experiment that Kim wanted to try.  It is omelet in a bag.  It turned out pretty good actually.  We added what we wanted like onions, peppers, bacon and cheese.  Tasted good, the ones in the frying pans may taste a little better but these were good.

The time has come now to say Night Y’all…. so Night Y’all….

Sunday June 24th 2012

We stopped last night in Winslow AZ for the night.  We got a room at the Super 8 which is now the Roadway Inn.  Got a good price for the night and it was a nice room.  I talked with the clerk in the morning and he said the motel was fully booked last night and we had gotten there at just the right time.  We also got a little discount which if we had been later we wouldn’t have gotten it!

We decided to go on and stop for church at a place down the road.  We pulled off at, this is terrible, I can’t remember the name of the city but it was only about forty miles down the road.  We found a Calvary Chapel, Linda saw it, and we stopped.  We were about ten minutes early for the service which turned out to be very nice.  Learned some things about the names of some of the first people mentioned in the Bible starting with Cain and Abel. I would have to look at the sheet to see what they mean though.

Linda got a couple pictures driving down the road.  This one is old Route 66

Just to the right you can see the old highway.  I had traveled that road back in the 1960s on the way to California.  These roads are a little nicer.

This picture is of a lava flow.  Must be pretty old, not sure when it happened though.

The black part is lava if I’m not mistaken.  Not sure why it formed hills but it sure looks like lava!

We got lunch at a Subway at a gas station somewhere. It is pretty hot out, probably around 100 degrees but no humidity.  They are having some problems with fires.  We haven’t seen any so far but on the way out we saw one in NM at Ruidoso which according to the TV, it is still burning. Burnt thousands of acres and lots of homes.

Gas!  I don’t like to pay a lot for gas and so far we have been pretty fortunate.  There have been a couple of times I put in $10 to get us somewhere a little less expensive.  The highest price I’ve seen for gas was $4.89 a gallon and fifty miles down the road it was $3.49!  In Winslow the first gas station I saw was $3.79 and down the street it was $3.28 and the next morning the highest one went even higher!  I got the $3.28 gas.

Back to driving.  We drove on to Albuquerque NM and decided to stop for the night.  I wanted to drive to the other side of town but stopped here at the Super 8 on the West side of town.  Might hit some heavy traffic in the morning but on the news the East side of town had a problem with the electricity and a lot of people were without electricity!  We probably would have been ones that lost it and would have baked until they got the problem fixed!  I think the Lord was guiding us to stop here, we also got a good price for the night!

I will have to apologize for any mistakes here in the blogs, for some reason I can’t get back to the top to check for mistakes.  Oh well, guess that will have to be the way it goes until I get LaVon to help me get this straightened out!  Night Y’all….

Saturday June 23rd 2012

Actually this is Saturday morning and I’m going to try to post another session of our blog.

We took down the camp yesterday morning after breakfast. Jacob had to go to work and Kim took Alexa and Jake into town to see Jacob’s lobsters. I think Jacob is writing a thesis on the lobsters.  I didn’t read it but he had it bound and ready for publishing.  I think he was the only one to write a thesis and his teachers said it wasn’t necessary but he wanted to do it.

Seemed like it was a lot easier to put the camp up than to take it down. We had a lot of “stuff” to pack up…

Well, it took a couple of hours to take it down and we left there around 11AM and they hadn’t packed their cars yet.  We wanted to get on the road.  Thought about going to Northern California to see the Redwood trees and to see Daniel and Rachel but we got as far as Solvang and decided to head for home.  I want to be home now.  The vacation is over. One day we will make a trip of it to see the Redwoods and maybe go on to Alaska. Maybe!

I had taken a few pictures in Solvang, think I will put a couple in here.

We bought some pastries here at this place so I figured I needed a picture of it.  Linda, Dee, Kim, Bren, Alexa, Jake, Jared and Gianna.  Nice and warm today.

OK, now for our first leg of the trip.  What a weird set of roads California has!  We don’t have a map and we wanted to get to Interstate 40 to come home a different way.  We got lost at least four times but now at Victorville it is looking like we may find the Interstate later today.  Taking a long time to get out of California!

We got a motel room and went across the street to a Mexican restaurent and we both got a burrito.  Very good!  I don’t like this section of town but so far things are OK.

We are both really beat.  Been a long day so I am going to say, yes, Night Y’all….

Friday June 22nd 2012

Well, I haven’t posted a blog for quite awhile.  I tried posting one and I think it is floating around in cyberspace right now! We’ve been camping for a week now and having had internet service or phone service so I haven’t been doing much. The battery on the computer went dead so I couldn’t even get one ready if I wanted to!

Got a lot of pictures of Jacobs graduation and the camping and I think I will just start posting them.  I will try to say what each one is though.

We have stuff in the car

Our campfire and we usually have visitors, skunks.  They come right up to the fire ring.  Cute little things and they haven’t really smelled things up until the last night and that wasn’t really to bad.

Tried to get a picture of all the graduates, all eleven hundred of them at this ceremony.  I think all together there are about fifty five hundred graduating!

The proud graduate and and his proud parents, Kim and Dave.

Celebrating the moment.  All six from the house graduated and four are from San Diego and the other two are from Orange County, not far away!

These are the six guys that graduated and Liz who is a friend to everyone I think.  She is really a sweet girl..

This is the whole family that was there.

Well, I’m going to try and post this blog and maybe do some more in the morning….Night Y’all….

Wednesday June 13th 2012

I think today may be a busy day.  Kim is coming over around 10AM and we will go shopping for the groceries etc for our camping expedition.

I was up plenty early and got to watch Clifford, the big red dog, with the kids.  They really like that and Barney.

We left for Cosco with Kim around 11AM I think.  We spent about 3 hours in there looking at and picking up “stuff”.  They have some good deals but some of the stuff is really expensive.  We will split the cost with everyone. I asked her how much that had come to so far and it was almost $450!!  We did get a lot of stuff though but not all of it.  Linda and I are going to to to Wal Mart for some things that are just to expensive to buy at Cosco.

Dee came over to Cosco to help take some of the stuff home and it’s a good thing she did.  She has a van and we needed it.  We put most of the stuff in her van and took it to Kim’s place and unloaded it and divided some of it up.  No way Kim could pack all that stuff in her refrigerator and freezer.  Dee had some room so she took a pretty good size bunch of it with her.

After getting all this done we were a little hungry so we went to my favorite Mexican place, Cotihas.  We got some burritos and Kim got a nacho type of thing…

Do you see the size of those burritos???  They are humongous!  They are also very good.  Got very full but had enough energy now to go to Wal Mart to get some more “stuff”!  I’m not sure how long we spent there but it was quite awhile.  We texted Kim about the cost of things and found Wal Mart to be cheaper than Vons prices.  We definitely have the car loaded and will be nice to get rid of some of it.

Got back to Bren’s and she had supper fixed and it was good also.  Good thing we had time to do some shopping first.  She had home made soup and goulash for supper. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

Bren and Linda went to the store again tonight.  I opted to stay home and relax.  Tried working on the computer and tried reading but I’m just to tired to stay awake.  We did sit around talking until after 10PM though so it wasn’t a real early night.  That’s it I guess….Night Y’all.

Tuesday June 12th 2012

The weather is pretty cool here at least for me.  It is probably around 65 degrees but that is quite a way from the 70 – 80 degree weather we are used to in the morning.

Alexa got sick during the night and was still feeling pretty poorly this morning.  We said she could stay home with us.  It was her last day of school and maybe she wouldn’t be missing much but it wouldn’t be good for her to go when she doesn’t feel very well.

She did really good during the day.  She didn’t get sick at all and by 9AM she was feeling pretty good.

About all we did today was watch some movies.  Got to watch “Tangled” which is an animated movie but was really a good movie.

Kim came over this evening and we went over the camping list.  Not my list for sure but I guess we will have plenty of people and now we will have plenty of food!

We are plenty tired tonight so I’m cutting this short!  Night Y’all…

Monday June 11th 2012

Finally got the pictures downloaded from yesterday.  I think that I may put a couple in here now.  The first is a picture of our supper at the motel last night.  We got some burritos from a gas station and the restaurant was called the Santa Fe Grill.  Got some really cheap ones…

Got one of the inside of the church we went to yesterday.

Well, those were pictures from yesterday. 

Today we made pretty good time driving but it was still very hot. The forecast for the entire South West is for hot weather the rest of the week.

We stopped in Gila Bend for a Brunch.  We just got a breakfast burrito and it was excellent.

After leaving Gila Bend we stopped in Dateland for a date shake.  They are pretty good.  We made good time the rest of the way to San Diego.  We got here about 4PM so we stopped at Wal Mart to do a little more shopping for some stuff we are going to need for later.

Got to Brenna’s around 5PM and waited for her to get home from work. We didn’t know it but Darin was already home.  We didn’t even think of trying the door.  We were enjoying the 71 degree weather.  An hour earlier it was 105 on the other side of the mountains.  What a change!

We got to see the kids and the grandkids and I think we will have a great time for the short time we will be here.  We have so much in the car and we really don’t know where much of anything is so we will have to unload most of the car to find our stuff!  Anyway, Night Y’all.

Sunday June 10th 2012

We got a pretty good nights sleep and I went outside this morning (Las Cruces NM) and it is a beautiful day.  I think it must be around 70 degrees, give or take, and just as clear and nice outside as you would ever want it to be.  Had a little to eat and got on the road.  I wanted to fill up with gas and I had remembered a gas station from a couple of years ago but I couldn’t find it so we got on I-10 and headed west.  To make a long story short I had a hard time finding a gas station.  Finally stopped at a tourist trap and got a gallon, yes a gallon, for $4.09!  Not cheap gas for sure.  We finally stopped at Deming and got gas.  It isn’t cheap here either $3.57 a gallon. We asked about a church and the lady gave us directions.  Went to the First Baptist Church of Deming.  Nice church.  The acoustics weren’t good and had a hard time understanding the preacher.  The were having an enchilada dinner afterward and we thought about staying but decided not to. Got a picture of the inside of the church if I downloaded it…

What a bummer.  I didn’t download the pictures and the batteries are now dead, but, I have a whole bag of batteries, but I don’t know where they are. I sure hope I brought them.  I was planning on it but then my plans get changed once in awhile because of my great memory…  Maybe later..

We traveled on and made it all the way to Tucson AZ.  Decided to stop for the night.  Been a pretty long day and I figure that tomorrow, even though it is over 400 miles to SD  I think we can make it OK.

We are trying a Red Roof Inn on the West side of Tucson, will miss the traffic in the morning I hope.  The motel isn’t new but it has been remodeled and we are the first ones to rent this room!  Smells new, smells like plaster.  Nice room though and the air conditioner works well.  It is about 102 again today and the air feels nice.  I guess there is a forest fire in Mexico and the smoke is blowing this way.  I believe that tomorrow will be hot all the way to the mountains just east of San Diego.  Long day but should go fine. 

Guess that’s about it, no pictures today…Night Y’all….

Saturday June 9th 2012

We got up early today, it is really cool out this morning.  If I had my jacket I think I would put it on but I’m not going to rummage through the trunk to try to find it. 

Got Linda up pretty early and we got on the road a little after 8AM!!!

We stopped at Wal Mart for a couple of things we forgot at home and still forgot a couple of other things.  May have everything by the time we get home!!

We went through the little town of Elida NM and that is the place we got our speeding ticket a couple years ago and the same place David and Marian got theirs.  It is a speed trap but still my fault for not watching the signs.  We were on a road in Texas, around Canyon Texas I think and it is a four lane highway and no speed limit signs that I could see.  The last one I saw was 55 MPH so that is what I drove.  Not fun for sure, having all those other cars whiz by like crazy.  Plenty of signs saying this was Route 70 but no speed limit signs.  We made good time anyway.

I took this picture out the window while driving, don’t tell anyone OK?  I think these feed lots are really neat.  Sure are a lot of cattle.

This was somewhere around Hereford Texas, beef capitol of the world!  Linda didn’t like the smell.  Guess you get used to it after awhile.

Linda took this picture and it isn’t clear enough to see the white sands national park but it looks a lot like soap suds from a long distance.  Before this we went through Ruidoso NM and we saw smoke for miles before we got there and I was sure hoping we wouldn’t have to detour around a forest fire.  Not sure there is another way around.  The news tonight said that it has burned around ten thousand acres so far and the wind is blowing like crazy and the embers blow up to two miles and start more fires.  I think they have a problem!

We made it to Las Cruces NM and decided to stop.  We’ve driven around four hundred miles today and I think we can make San Diego Monday as long as we don’t have any problems.

We were both tired tonight and went to sleep around 9PM and it is till kind of light outside!   Night Y’all….

Friday June 8th 2012

Leaving Tulsa this morning heading to Amarillo.  Shouldn’t be to long a drive. We wanted to split the drive from Sikeston to Amarillo into partially equal days.  We stopped at a rest area. I need to get out once in awhile to stretch and wake up….

I thought the windmill made a nice centerpiece in the rest area or welcome center whatever it was.

We stopped in Amarillo at the Super 8 and got a room then went to see Evelyn, Linda’s sister in law.  Had a good visit and then when her daughter, Debbie, got back we went to the hospital to see Bobby.  He doesn’t look good…

Evelyn had polio when she was young and has had to use crutches almost all her life.  Talked to Bobby about Jesus and he said he had asked Him to be his Savior and I can’t say anymore than that.  We don’t know him very well.  We only got to visit every couple of years but I will take his word for his Salvation.  I got to pray with him and I’m not sure what he thought about that either.

We went back to Evelyn’s house and visited for another hour or so then headed back to the motel.  Linda had made egg salad and we bought a couple small loaves of bread at a Mexican bakery.  The bakery made us both drool.  Wow did it smell good!!!!

Couldn’t hardly believe that Linda got tired and went to bed before I did.  It was quite a day though, a tough day and she was really tired.  I was to so I’m going to say Night Y’all….

Thursday June 7th 2012

Got Sparky to the Vet’s and boarded for the next few weeks and back home to load the car and get things ready.

We got on the road pretty early considering.  It was before 10AM!  I figure if we can make it to Tulsa today we can make it to Amarillo tomorrow.  We have to stop and see Linda’s brother and his wife.

I have some pictures but I’m not sure what they are of…I’ll check…

Yep, I knew I took some pictures..  Thought the buffalo was pretty interesting!

We made it to Tulsa with no problems.  Stopped at the Super 8 for the night.  Not a great motel but it will do for sleeping.  We will be leaving pretty early tomorrow anyway.

I am tired!  I get tired driving and am ready for a good nights sleep…Night Y’all…

Wednesday June 6th 2012

I was pretty sure that I wasn’t going to mow today, just to much cleanup left to do.

I spent almost all day taking the fence apart (the downed part) and taking the pieces back to the shop.  I did get it all cleaned up and I still had time to take the nails out of a bunch of boards.  I think there must be about 500 boards left to take the nails out of though.

I figure I had a good day and even if my back still hurt I did pretty good, and as long as I keep busy it feels pretty good.

I had to take a picture of the corn field in back of our place.  Can’t hardly believe how fast it has grown.

I know it is hard to see but the corn is tasseled out already.  When we got home from Texas they had just planted it and that was the end of March. This has grown this much in about two and a half months.  They have it irrigated though and if they hadn’t it would be about  three feet shorter than what it is now.

Well, when I got home from work I had Linda give me a haircut.  No, not a buzz but I kind of wondered when she poked my head pretty hard and she asked if that hurt and I said yes and she said she must have been watching TV.  HMMM.  I know she says she can do more than one thing at a time but I would just as soon have her pay attention to my hair and forget about the TV..  She ended up doing a great job on my hair.

Now, she really felt motivated today and she started going through some bags and doing what ever with all the stuff.  Most of it is on the sofa and the coffee table and the floor.  What a mess.  She says she will get it all cleaned up when we get home.  OK.

We had so much to do tonight to get ready to get on the road tomorrow that I just don’t really like to think about it.  I went to bed around 10:30PM and she came to bed about 11:30 or midnight, not sure but she had a load of clothes to wash and dry and I needed to get some sleep.  Time to say Night Y’all…

Tuesday June 5th 2012

Well it is a beautiful day and I suppose I will have to mow today seeing how we got quite a bit of rain!  When I got to the campground my first hint that something that was wrong was the sign on the building…

I believe the rest of it says Park and Campground!   That part is on the ground.

Nest thing was the big sign by the road.

It just took those 6x6’s that the sign was on and just snapped them!

The wind took out about 14 sections of this wooden fence!  Guess they had a lot of wind!

I spent most of the day picking up branches and dumping them on the burn pile.  Lots of branches and a couple of trees, not big trees but trees just the same.

I was tired and kind of sore by the time I went home.  I was ready to take it easy for sure.  Night Y’all…

Monday June 4th 2012

I’m hurting today!!!  My back hurts like crazy,  I sure don’t know why but I couldn’t hardly get out of bed!   I took some Aleve and hopefully it will help later.

Sparky and I went outside and walked around for awhile and I feel pretty good while I lean on the railing but when I straighten up it still hurts pretty bad.

I figure I may as well do something so I started putting insulation in the pump house.  I’m not feeling great but I feel like working on the pump house.  Once I got started I really didn’t want to stop.  I took a picture..

Maybe it isn’t pretty but I think it is getting pretty close to being ready for winter!  In the house we can’t tell when the pump is running.  I’ve flushed the toilet a couple of times just to see and the pump house is right outside the bathroom.  Can’t hear a thing!  Not sure that is good but at least it works!  I think that there are storms coming tonight so hopefully the pump house doesn’t leak!

Linda fixed some potato salad and some sloppy Joe’s for supper, excellent!  I boiled the potatoes and eggs and Linda fixed the rest!

We had a pretty good evening and the lightning and the thunder started and it seemed most of it was to our East so I suppose that mean we won’t get any again.  Wrong, we got some rain and then later we got a lot more rain!  We haven’t gotten this much rain in I don’t know how long!  Love it! Praise the Lord!!!!

Well, time to say Night Y’all…

Sunday June 3rd 2012

It is cloudy out but not as cool as it has been the last couple of days. Hopefully we will get some rain.  Maybe it will settle the dust!

Sunday School and Church were good as usual.  I didn’t get a picture of the singers for the special music.  I’ve never seen them before.  It was Pastor Joe’s daughter and her husband.  He is a preacher somewhere but I don’t know where.

We decided to have pizza for lunch.  It is to hot to have the oven going so I took it out to the camper, started the generator and cooked it in the convection oven.  I think it turned out quite well even though the crust wasn’t quite done.  I liked it like that.  We ate it anyway.

We did get some rain tonight.  Not much but it will dampen the ground a little.  Got a beautiful sunset.  Picture doesn’t do it justice though.

Well, going to take it easy tonight…Night Y’all…

If I have mistakes in my blog I’m sorry but I can’t get the scroll to work.  I think I need to start using the new computer but that is a problem also.  I can’t post to this blog from the other computer, what a bummer!!!

Saturday June 2nd 2012

Well, I never quite know what I’m going to do when I get up, especially on a day off.  I started looking at the pump house and figured I may as well work on it.  I figure I have until this Fall when we go to Texas to get it finished.  The water is working and I’m pretty sure it isn’t going to freeze this summer.  The insulation went a little better than I thought it would.  The plastic sheeting went a little better than I thought it would.  Actually the plastic sheeting went very well.  Working with a twenty five foot by ten foot sheet of plastic isn’t really easy but it went pretty fast and I covered all the inside and the top plus the top on the outside and I used every bit of the roll of plastic!  I put the plastic in for an air barrier.  May not have been the right place to put it but this winter will put it to the test.

I quit for awhile to take a break and decided that I needed to put at least one piece of steel siding on so I could hook up the water bib.  Not easy for me to cut a hole in the steel but I got it done.  I put the sheet on and put the bib in and got it hooked up.  I don’t really trust my work.  I am using a union that just has rubber and nuts to tight it up.  Well, I have had it come loose a few times and it really makes a mess.  This time, so far, it has worked just fine.  I turn the water off to the bib because I still don’t trust it.

I finished putting the steel on the bottom part and took a break.  Figured I would quit for the day, but no, I had two pieces of steel left to go and I just had to go out and finish it up.  Got a couple of pictures…

Looks kind of funny to have a ladder to work on this doesn’t it?  The plastic on the top inside I just couldn’t reach!

I’m going to call this the finished product even though it isn’t finished. I still have to put the corners on and finish the insulation on the inside.  Maybe before we leave for Texas?

Not much else going on today, I was really pleased with the way the pump house turned out and I’m tired again so will take it easy the rest of the night…..Night Y’all….

Friday June 1st 2012

Guess I will have to change the date on yesterday's blog.  I was so tired that I didn’t really know what I was doing.  I imagine the blog contained a lot of mistakes.

Did some more work on the pump house this morning.  It has been going pretty good.  I have started putting in the insulation.  I’m not sure how I’m going to do the whole thing though.  I’m putting in rolled fiberglass, plastic sheeting and Styrofoam.

I needed to take a break this afternoon so we went in to town and I stopped at the camp ground and returned the walkie talkie that I brought home with me yesterday.

Linda fixed a spaghetti dish tonight.  Not sure what you call it but it was pretty good.  Had lots of different things in it like tomatoes, garlic, basil and a few other things.  It was pretty good!

Didn’t do much of anything else, just to tired!  Night Y’all…

Thursday 31st2012

OK I’m having a problem getting this done and staying awake. 

I worked in the shower again this morning  I got it pretty well done. I painted the pipes.  Not easy spray painting something silver that is so close to the shiny white!

This afternoon we worked on cutting down another tree.  Well, we didn’t cut it down, Mark pushed it over with the tractor.  We didn’t get it all done because we are getting some needed rain.

We have a lot to do to finish this tree but we will get it plus another five or ten.  May take awhile though.

On my way home it rained like crazy but the closer I got to home the less it rained and when I made it home we hadn’t had any rain.  What a bummer.

Well, I decided to sit for awhile and relax.  I couldn’t stay awake and it definitely wasn’t from working to hard.  During the night tonight I woke up with a bad headache, sinus, and I staggered around and got a couple Aleve and went back to bed.  It helped. 

Backing it up a little I didn’t do anything the rest of the day.  I was going to work on the pump house but just couldn’t get myself to go out and do it.

Time to say Night Y’all…..