Odds and Ends

Protecting my poor spindly trees from the deer.  Hope it works !

Grandson Treyson is quite the guitar player.  Check him out on instagram.  He practices daily, and has really gotten very good. 

Manda and Bren's remodel is coming along.  Cabinets go in next week. 

The water dropped enough that they were able to get the pumps out of the ground, pipes re-routed, and the ground ready to go for the shed. 

Cam and Josiah

Lawnmowing is almost done, and sprinkler winterization has started up.  

We helped to cut back the grapes, which didn't produce too well this year.  

Remember this?  I never was able to make this work for me.  Not even with the quote :(

I've done more canning this year than I ever have before.  These bottles of stewed tomatoes is the last of it (bottling).  I puree them for spaghetti sauce, and use the spaghetti sauce I bottled for Pizza sauce !! Go figure :) 

Thatch's team went undefeated, and they were featured in the Morgan County News, which is back in business.    

Almost voting time.  So grateful that I will have a job for another 4 years, without the worry of being defeated in the election.  

As I said..........I just couldn't make it work, and in less that 3 hours on Morgan Classified, had it sold and gone.  The extra room in the garage is nice.  

These crazy kids love the trampoline.  It's about time to take ours down, probably tomorrow.  

Finishing up the garage

Two years ago, while we were in the midst of doing the update on our house, I picked up this weight set.  It has set in the shop (much to Zac's dismay) until now.  Roger and I, with little instruction and a few pictures (taken by previous owner) were able to get it put together !  It now sits proudly in the corner of the garage, and will hopefully get used !!

I took this panoramic picture of the finished garage.   I am so pleased.  Hopefully we'll get the new windows soon, and it will be a wrap :) 

New / Old Garage

This is our old garage - Steve Wiggill built it for Uncle Don in the mid 1970's.  We kept it and hooked it on to our newly built home in 1993.  The sheet rock was never attached properly to the breezeway side, after attachment,  and had began to sag over the years.  
See that bench at the front?  Steve made that out of scrap wood off of Uncle Don's old back porch (if I remember correctly).  We salvaged that, and gave it away. Cupboards (brown) from Mom and Dad's old house - gave away.  

I had been nagging for quite awhile, and finally!  It paid off.  See also where the central vac was hooked up?  No sheet rock there either (for years)............   They cut and replaced all of the sheet rock. 

Meanwhile my breezeway was loaded up with "stuff".  A lot of the "stuff" we moved over to the shop, and junked some, and sold some. 

Hard at work - almost done with the sheet rock. Tagg had come over with Zac, and he was a pretty patient boy, I'll tell you what !

Next day - Painter Man aka Zac arrived. 

 I was not worried about the taping of the sheet rock - I just wanted to get it painted and get it done.  Zac and CJ had about 10 gallons of left over paint (not primer), and he went to town. 

A couple of hours later.............DONE !!
New windows are ordered, and they will come in a couple of weeks.  The old ones had moisture inside of them, and you couldn't see through them very good.