Tuesday, July 25, 2006
There Are Times!
There are times when this is all you need to set things right again. (Plus a lot of help from the off springs)
Saturday Les, Anne, and Courtney came up to spend the day with us. They brought a card and some chocolates for the 32nd Anniversary. Les took time to program the new portable phones for us and answer a couple of blog questions for me. A pleasant time to visit a little.
The week before David and Cindy were up and David worked hard to get a few major things moved and completed for us. He moved all the garden barrels out by the shed to clear the space around the deck area. Mowed yard area, pulled up the path to the deck, storing the stepping stones, and moving the the wood chips back out to the pile. The deck is cleared on and under it.
Yesterday he and Cindy were back up to help me with the freezers. What is a bigger pain in the butt than defrosting a freezer in July? It is defrosting two freezers which is what we did. Jamming as much as we could into one of the freezers and putting the rest into foam ice chests and picnic chests. Cindy and I managed to empty one and David pulled it out onto the lower driveway where we let it melt away all the excess frost (ice). I washed it out there which saved a whole lot of floor mopping inside the house.
In the meantime David started mowing again and Cindy and I went to the store to find a few items to round out lunch.
After lunch David hauled the first one back in . Plugged in and ready to go Cindy and I filled it from the second freezer so it could get the same going over.
While that one was melting Cindy took her first turn at driving a lawnmower tractor. A little sunburned but really having a good time behind the wheel she finished off the yard for me.
Freezer # 2 was not as frosted over so the melting went fast. We even had time for a bite of supper and a short game of rummy.
So the old homestead is getting ready for it’s new deck, some much needed extra stuff is getting done. All we need is to see the builder in the yard to make our day.
By the way the two Grand-daughters are coming up on the 30th for about a week. So we plan on picking and jamming a little, helping Grandpa cook a little, and maybe some swimming. That is going to be fun!
