Monday May 4, 2009

In the last two weeks we have received about 3 inches of rain. It is still pretty wet but the garden should do good as soon as the sun comes out and it drys a little. We picked English peas on Saturday and got two quart bags. We ate one bag on Sunday and they were really good. Here are a few pictures of the garden:

April 18, 2009

It's been about a year since the last post here so I thought that I would post a few words just to make sure that I still can. I will get organized soon and post a few pictures to update the last year.

We have been at Grandview for about 16 months now without traveling any. We are enjoying our time here catching up on a lot of things.

We have a pretty good garden going. Got some rain the last couple of days that has helped a lot. I will try to post some pictures tomorrow. We have English Peas, onions, Sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, collard greens, Blue Lake Beans, Pinto Beans, Purple-hull peas, Crowder peas, Cream peas, Okra, Squash, Zucchini, Cucumbers, beets carrots, potatoes and lettuce. Everything looks pretty good. We had to put a hot wire around it to keep the rabbits out.

April 25, 2008

On Wednesday night we had a bad storm come through our area. There was high wind and blinding rain with a small amount of hail. About 7:30 pm the electricity went out. Rebecca and Drew had gone to Burleson a little earlier and had a difficult time getting home because of the hard rain. Emily called Rachel to see how they were doing and Rachel said that they still had electricity. Since our power comes off the same line as Rachels down in the woods, I figured that our problem must be local. Sure enough, when I got a flashlight and went outside to survey the situation I found that the ceder tree west of our trailer had blown down and fallen across the power line to our houses. The line had been pulled loose from the transformer. Several other trees were also down and one had fallen across the line that runs to our trailer, the water well and the shop.

Rebecca and the girls made it okay getting ready for school and Emily and I had to go to Fort Worth for my follow up at my doctor's. Drew got out and cut the tree off of the power line. We used our neighbor's portable welder to provide power to three refrigerators and two freezers all day Thursday so we didn't lose any food. The electric people came late yesterday and replaced the transformer and re-attached the lines. Drew and I still had to re-connect the lines to the well and our trailer. Since all of the poles were broken down, we just left the line temporarily laying on the ground. We will have to put in new poles and hook up the shop later. We are thinking about going ahead and burying the wires.

My checkup was good. The doctor said that I was progressing normally but would have to continue doing nothing for nine more days and then I would be able to do whatever I wanted (just in case my doctor is reading this, I should point out that I just supervised Drew's work on the wires).

Here are a few more pictures of some of the damage.

April 14, 2008

As Sheryl reminded me this morning, it's been a month since I last posted. It's been a busy month. Emily is having a lot of dental work done and I had my prostrate surgery last Thursday. I spent three days at Huguley Hospital and came home on Saturday. The surgery went fine and they found an unexpected kidney stone in the bladder and removed that. I can't do anything for a couple of weeks which will be hard. I feel good however.

We got the tractor about 98% finished before I went to the hospital. We don't have any real good pictures yet but will post some soon. I will post a couple today. It is a little dirty since we had to mow the front pasture.

March 13, 2008

We decided on Tuesday to do the brakes. When we got the left axle off, the carrier bearings were badly pitted. I ordered the necessary parts and got them today. Got the brakes and new bearings finished on the left rear axle today. Drew and I drove to south of Waco to get a seat for the tractor. It was not perfect, but has some pieces that are better than our old one.

Carly came down to check on us with her cowboy outfit on.

March 8, 2008

Had a good day today to work on tractor. Recruited Emily, Rebecca, Drew and the dog to help.

March 7, 2008

Woke up to snow-covered ground this morning. North Dakota has nothing on us.