Monthly Archives: June 2011

Project # 3 Done!

The granary is painted! I finished off the white trim today and even though it doesn’t seem like that it was much trim to paint, it sure took longer than I thought. I did learn one thing today. I found … Continue reading

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Summer Day

Well we almost got everything done that I wanted to yesterday. The garden got weeded which was a good thing and probably the most important thing. I would be embarrassed to say how many weeds we got out of there, … Continue reading

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Projects and more projects

Today was a busy day and we were able to get a little bit of all our projects worked on. The garden is still not cleaned up from all the weeds that took over these past few weeks that it … Continue reading

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Flower boxes and doors

I’ve been trying to see if flower window boxes will work on the barn. So this year I put up a couple as an experiment. What I found out is that the wind that blows through here in the spring … Continue reading

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Looks like trouble

I put the cushions on the patio furniture yesterday and I think they’re going to work. Yea! But I did have some trouble. I tied them all on and took a step back and thought that they looked nice and … Continue reading

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Rainy day ahead … again!

The weather continues to be bad for painting. It’s been raining on and off for days and I haven’t been able to paint. AAHHHH !! It’s going to be July soon and I was hoping to be much further along. … Continue reading

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Storms went through last night

Around 2 am this morning we started to hear thunder and then the lightning came. With the Chevelle in the garage and the other cars sitting out, we were worried that we were going to get hailed on.  Daryl grabbed … Continue reading

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Cows & Gophers

We knew that we were going to have to sell one of our cows because he was born from our mother cow that we still have and for some reason he missed being castrated. So we needed to sell him … Continue reading

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Picking Rock

I realized today when I was talking to a friend,  that not everyone understands what picking rock really means. He called this morning because he was wondering what we were doing today. His family was invited to a wedding close … Continue reading

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Slick – back from vacation

I’m not sure where Slick went this past week,  but today when I was mowing I saw a couple of new gopher mounds. When I stopped and counted – there was 7 more! One of them still had an open … Continue reading

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