Forgive me, followers, for I have sinned, it has been three weeks and two days since my last blog entry. I'm not sure that not blogging is a sin but trust me, I have sinned in many other ways like slothfulness; pridefulness; gluttony, well you get the idea. We won't dwell on that any longer.
So does this remind anyone else of a church ceiling?
It was interesting to see who noticed or at least commented on my absence. Susie and Maggie were probably the first. Then Tony, our house designer. Even in a meeting this past Tuesday with Lee, our youth pastor, I got a gentle nudge. You would think a nudge from a "man of the cloth" would get me right on it. (Lee, when was the last time someone called you "a man of the cloth"? I'm guessing, never.) But, NO! It took an email from my sister June to get me back on the Blog. See it's that birth order thing. The oldest sister still has power over the youngest. I mean if you called the number on my cell phone for "Bossie Sister" who would answer? June, of course. So when I got this (And still no pictures on wastenot farm blog! :() in an email from June what else could I do but post a new blog entry. I do not want to be responsible for June posting frowny faces on the internet.
So let's see, what have we done since Tuesday, July 21? Well I moped around (no, I didn't ride a mo-ped, that would be mopeded around) several days feeling sorry for myself, missing my daughters a whole lot. We celebrated Tony's birthday with a hot dog and s'more roast in Jake's fire pit. (Thanks for building it, Jake. Sorry we didn't get to use it at your wedding. It had dried out nicely by August 8th.) Hilary and I picked about 70 gallons of green beans, well maybe not quite that many, but I froze 7 gallons and that is a lot of frozen green beans. (I could probably go pick another 3 gallons right now but instead I think I'll bore you a little while longer.) Tony and I both had appointments with Dr Hill, our eye doctor. We went to Columbia to get the document cabinet I bought way back over Memorial Day weekend. I picked out shingles, siding, soffits, decking, rock, etc. I comparison shopped for things like doors, lights, ceiling fans, etc. I played about 150 games of KenKen (that one probably isn't an exaggeration.) And I spent some quality time with my granddaughters. I taught Rylee how to play Sudoku and I tried to teach Andie how to play KenKen but she just doesn't seem to grasp it, yet. Oh, and I discovered Craigs List. Oh my gosh, it is a good thing I have no money.
I took lots of pictures because Tony, the home owner, had to work and I didn't want him to totally miss out. It was his 57th birthday.
I had this kid in a 4-H class several yeas ago. He sure makes his job look easy. In less than two hours he had all of the trusses in place.
Being an equal opportunity family we put Hilary to work, too.
This is how the house looked this evening. The main roof; both dormers; and 3/4 of the porch roof are covered with sheeting ready for the shingles. The back porch floor/cellar roof still needs to be poured, then the roof over it can be built.
