28 February 2015

Puzzling

February 1st I posted how Kent and I started making puzzles. Kind'a like madmen we've kept at it all month! Last day of February, and here's what I've finished... put my last piece in the chicken puzzle last night. Kent's done as many or more.

Pieces missing 'cause I bought it at DI. 500 pc.


Borrowed from Marcia. 1000 pc.


Kent and I went puzzle shopping. Came home with six ... here's two finished. #1... 1000 pc..


#2... 500 pc.


Er, probably this is why I haven't been blogging. Probably this is saving my sanity!

27 February 2015

Driving tour

Today we drove to Bear Lake. Just to see. This is deep in the mountain pass



between Logan



(Yellow highway 89)


and Garden City. Patches of blue light the water as we approach Bear Lake,



though facing where we've come from, and right over our car, only fog banks and squalls.



The lake to the right, we head north. I snap pictures with my phone as the water changes color with the weather.



We drive past the entrance to the State Park after a few miles, cross the state line into Fish Haven, drive 45 mph within patches of towns called Liberty and Bloomington and,



whoa, Paris, Idaho!

Didn't a former member of our stake presidency in Georgia –  he was our Bishop too, yeah our good friend, say he was from here? Told us he was from near Bear Lake, and this is that.

Here's a tabernacle.



Designed by one of Brigham Young's sons, built in the 1880s.



We drove on, north and west to where we wanted to cross the mountains again, this time on Highway 36 heading to Preston from which we could cruise south to Logan and on home. Full circle.

(Arrow tip.)


Here's us heading there. Snow pack closed in on the road finally at forest's edge (way in the distance, almost invisible; we drove a long way). "Chains Advised" a yellow sign advertised as we neared the Wasatch Cache National Forest, conditions worsening. We slowed; went ahead. We slowed and crept. Stopped: couldn't go farther in good conscience, as the tread is thinner on our four wheel-drive car than we'd like for snow pack, we wouldn't cross here.



I was white knucklin' it. Sure wanting to go in, heavens don't go all the way back!, but hating the skids and now super-slow-going. We'd be all day at this. I won't tell you a little old man and his wife in like a 1966 Galaxy four-door sedan trundled past us into the woods us as we turned and made our way out. Kent suggested they lived only a mile or so up the road. He was being hopeful, optimistic – and they were too.



We drove east then south over the roads we'd come on, Paris, Bloomington, Liberty, Fish Haven, 45 mph into Utah then alongside the lake, the while passing under squalls and sunshine. CUh-RaZy wEAtHeR.

Snow followed us out of the canyon on the way to Logan, though at points sunlight dappled the road and ridges through bare trees and pines. Light flooded the I-15 corridor the hour we traveled home and I turned to look at what we'd left behind: darkened mountains, storm clouds swallowing the passes. I felt safe  now on our way to get take-n-bake pizza for supper  happy we missed spending the rest of the afternoon (maybe into the dark night) in the forest. In the snow. In the mists! We'd not thought to bring our snowshoes.

A trip to Bear Lake in February is a driving tour only. Not much is inviting though the water under scudding clouds is beautiful. There's no place to eat, nothing's open: raspberries, shakes, subs, pizza, flame-broiled hamburgers, steaks, down-home cookin'... nothin'. Well I take it back  we found Mexican food at Cafe Sabor and I had a vegetarian burrito and Kent a combination plate – but nothing now like it will be when we go back in July.

26 February 2015

Prove worthy

“The Savior asks us to repent not just to repay him for paying our debt to justice, but also to induce us to undergo the personal development that will purify our very nature.” 

(The rest of the quote...)

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“The object of our earthly existence is that we may have a fulness of joy, and that we may become the sons and daughters of God, in the fullest sense of the word, being heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ [see Romans 8:14–17], to be kings and priests unto God, to inherit glory, dominion, exaltation, thrones and every power and attribute developed and possessed by our Heavenly Father. This is the object of our being on this earth. In order to attain unto this exalted position, it is necessary that we go through this mortal experience, or probation, by which we may prove ourselves worthy, through the aid of our elder brother Jesus” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith [1998], 150).

 “Through [the Atonement of Jesus Christ], all who believe and obey the glorious gospel of God, all who are true and faithful and overcome the world, all who suffer for Christ and his word, all who are chastened and scourged in the Cause of him whose we are—all shall become as their Maker and sit with him on his throne and reign with him forever in everlasting glory” (Elder Bruce R. McConkie, “The Purifying Power of Gethsemane,” Ensign, May 1985, 9).

25 February 2015

Fiber up, slim down

I ordered this cookbook online for forty-two cents plus $3.99 shipping one day after borrowing it from the library and, well, eating up all the great recipes within!

Once I got it I pink-tagged everything I wanted to try... and for sure, in order, page by page, for months I've been making the recipes.



I had this today. I didn't have Cole slaw mix on hand - who does? I made it up by shredding green and purple cabbage (which I DO keep around) and green and red bell pepper and (in place of the Granny Smith apple the recipe calls for, cut into very thin matchstick strips) a Honeycrisp apple, my fave. I put a handful of dark raisins into the mix and peppered it generously. I forgo Miracle Whip or mayonnaise anytime I can (for the load of calories it adds) and so, this time too, forwent that. I didn't add the barbecue sauce to the mix - I drizzled it atop the salad after I'd stuffed it into a whole wheat pita half spread generously with spicy coarse-grain mustard and layered with thin strips of what I had left over from Sunday lunch: roast beef. Thin bits, not much of that, a little protein. Turkey, when I have it around, is what I do go for.



Now I don't mind the Fiber Up... in fact from my visit with my doctor who performed my colonoscopy recently (dare I go here?) I hear I should be all about that, verily. And I would love to Slim Down. That's not the point, though it's the title IN BOLD of the book.

I'm ecstatic about the tastes of these mighty good recipes, this one included. That pita surrounded a whole mouthful of crunchy, tangy, sweet, spicy, GOOD!

I've just about made my way through sandwich fixin's (grills, buns, pitas, wraps, multigrains, paninis) and on to stir fries and soups. These I'll tag in another color, I warrant... I'm considering the beef, broccoli, and cashew stir-fry with brown rice next (the rice is made and waiting in the fridge); or corn and green chile soup with tomato-avocado salad. I might throw in hominy for crunch.

24 February 2015

Family night

This is Marcia's pretty table set for our family dinner last night. Because I snapped pictures that were mostly kind of crummy at the time I looked at them... and this one of the table had dad, Laura and Kent already sitting at places across from nobody and erm forking food into their mouths and chewing  which is never pretty, none of it, and they would've been mad at me if that landed on the blog only this cropped
version

and this



survived.

I've been thinking I've taken very few pictures of my sister Sarah while she's been here for Danny and Brooke's wedding? (link). I forgot I have this one.

Love you Sarah!

Love you Marcia and Sharm and Stanton... and Kaylee way off to the left out of the pic entirely, mostly. That might be Danny behind Stan holding a bread stick. Those went with three amazing soups in crock pots we sisters made from scratch. Laura brought the amazing bread sticks from the bakery. Sarah conjured up the salad and fixin's. So good!

Love you, family!

23 February 2015

Lost

I'm teaching on March 15th in Gospel Doctrine class about parables Jesus used in his ministry to explain the gospel. A parable is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. I doubt there's one more poignant in the New Testament than the parable of the prodigal son in Luke chapter 15. It follows parables of a lost sheep and a lost piece of silver... hence, the lost son. I found this and brought it here in simple form to remind us of our Father in Heaven's love for us. Portrayals of the destitute, desperate youth in the pen with the swine make me realize how far down we can come in the world by our own choices... studying this parable I particularly appreciate that the Father waits for us to come to ourselves.

The younger son took that which his father had given him and went into a far country
A certain man had two sons. The younger asked his father to give him his portion of the inheritance. He took that which his father gave him and went into a far country. There he wasted his inheritance in riotous living.
He was so hungry that he could have eaten the husks he was feeding the hogs


When the son had spent all that he had, the only job he could find was tending hogs. He was so hungry he could have eaten the husks he was feeding the hogs. When he came to himself, he thought about his father's house. He said to himself, "My father's servants have plenty of food to eat and I am perishing with hunger. I will arise and go to my father and say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and you. I am not worthy to be called your son. Let me be one of your hired servants.'"


He arose and came back to his father. On the way home he must have wondered how his father would receive him. Would he forgive him? Would his father reject him and tell him that he could never come back after what he had done?
When he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him


How did his father receive him? Here are the words of Jesus, "When he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him." In that moment the prodigal son "prodigal" means spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant; imprudent knew he was forgiven. He knew his father's heart-attitude toward him: His father's actions were saying, "I love you! I love you!"

22 February 2015

Isn't it romantic

Marcia and Laura and I set this up on a large table in the gazebo at the back of Laura's and Sharm's property for Chris, our brother. A couple of days ago... he would be proposing to Julie that night! Told us he wanted to bring her here after dark and light the candles one by one saying romantic things to her... bring out her ring and drop to one knee and ask her officially to be his wife.

Marcia's kind of the mastermind behind this beautiful arrangement in the end. We'd lugged lots of stuff to the site but kept it simple and elegant in the end  she has good taste and good stuff! Laura's gazebo's none to shabby besides!

We think this will surprise Julie and make her happy! Romantic!



21 February 2015

Workin' out

I did big old hefty chin-ups this morning on a certain machine at the rec center weight room, and dips besides (pic to the left). Dips're for my triceps, the pull-ups for my biceps and lats. I have a love-hate relationship with this machine that strengthens your arms and shoulders, like, three ways! If the bottom half of me weighed half what it does, chin-ups and dips wouldn't be a herculean effort. But it doesn't, and they are.

Here's one of my favorite things to do on the machines: → Weighted hyper-extension... It's killer hard, though getting easier, and after I've done a couple of reps of ten (determined to lose my pudge) I hang straight down to extend the small of my back and my poor sore neck. Hang upside down (who does that? - opossums!) and relax... think... listen to music a while. This morning it was John Schmidt "Walk in the Woods." Love it!

Which makes me remember we got an inversion table week before last from Costco! Yeah, I hang upside down at home too again, to elongate my back and neck. For me the whole hanging upside down thing is workin' out.




20 February 2015

Life's not that bad

Don't'cha love this vignette?



What'd'you say to yourself even sometimes when you see a certain look in the mirror?


Bleh! 

Sometimes I just have to practice smiling...!

(Life's not that bad.)

19 February 2015

Adored

Ellie's third birthday was Valentine's Day and I didn't make it to her house til today. Today to take her to buy a present and a snack, and celebrate.

Today she fetched for me her birthday card HANDMADE by her cousins! It came in the mail. I think there's another one floating around here somewhere, that one from Taylor and this one from Calli. Hope that's how you spell her name. Ellie's pretty adored, isn't she.

18 February 2015

8 Ways to Show People they Matter...

...and Why It's Important

Debbie Gisonni is a best selling author, holistic lifestyle advisor and corporate leader who inspires people to make simple changes that radically improve their self-awareness, well-being and success. At the height of her tech career, Debbie’s personal life was shattered when four family members died in four years – one from suicide. After these life-altering events, she embarked on a mission to help others navigate the ups and downs of life and work, from the tragic to the trivial. (Read on...) 

1. Say "Thank You"
Don't overlook the power of
those two words and how they recognize a person.
2. Focus on the Positive
Next time you're about to criticize someone in your life, stop and think of
something good you can say about that person instead. 
3. Give Gifts
A gift could be a poem, a present, a meal, a compliment, an outing or anything special you do for another. It could
simply be the gift of time or listening.
4. Speak Your Appreciation
Get into the habit of telling people what you love or appreciate about them. Say it
in the moment not when it's too late.
5. Be a Hugger
Touch creates a physical, emotional and spiritual connection that is critical at all stages of life from infanthood to adulthood.
6. Make Eye Contact 
Eye contact shows people that
their presence, thoughts and words are valuable to you.
7. Be Present
Nothing says "you don't matter" more than picking up a call or texting while you're with someone else. Be present with the people.
8. Keep Your Promises
If your m.o. is frequently canceling plans or waiting to commit until the last minute,
the message you're sending is that you, your life and your plans are more important than theirs.

Aibileen Clark, The Help (link)

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Often called “The Goddess of Happiness,” Debbie is the author of the nonfiction books, The Goddess of Happiness: A Down-to-Earth Guide for Heavenly Balance and Bliss and Vita’s Will: Real Life Lessons about Life, Death & Moving On. Her first novel, Note to Self: Love, was released in 2013.

17 February 2015

Someday in life...


How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

16 February 2015

New path

On the path again this past Friday one day before Valentine's Day. Kent and I are a long way from home and we've been exploring a path unknown to us in the wetlands... I snapped this while I rode behind him "a fur piece," one-handed and a bit wobbly  lucky (right?) I didn't fall of my bike! He makes me happy. This makes me happy!



Gratitude as a Path to Happiness

Bonnie D. Parkin, General Relief Society President (2002-2007)

“We often have no control over the trials we’re given. They come to us through our own choices or through the choices of others. Sometimes we can work to improve the situation, but other trials are outside our control. However, we can control how we view those trials and we can control where we focus our attention. Certainly, some trials require a great deal of our attention, but others must simply be gotten through. With either type of trial, we can focus exclusively on the negative portions of the trial, or we can give time as well to the good things going on in the background. Every day of our lives, something good is happening to us. When we pay attention to those good things and remember to take a few minutes to thank God for them, somehow the trials don’t seem as overwhelming. We’re able to see God’s presence in the worst of times, and to remember there will always be goodness during bad times.”

“Mercies and blessings come in different forms—sometimes as hard things. Yet the Lord said, 'Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in
all things.' All things means just that: good things, difficult things—not just some things. He has commanded us to be grateful because He knows being grateful will make us happy. This is another evidence of His love.”

15 February 2015

14 February 2015

Yourself



Yeah, been here done that.

(You know LOVE thy neighbor as thyself? Well,

LOVE yourself as your neighbor!)

Happy Valentine's Day!

13 February 2015

Family rules

1. Treat other people respectfully. Say please, thank you, excuse me, I'm sorry, I promise. DO NOT INTERRUPT: say Excuse me please if you need to interrupt.

2. Apologize if you've hurt someone’s feelings.

3. Tell the truth... presume family members tell the truth.

4. Knock on closed doors before entering.

5. Pick up after yourself. Put clothes where they belong: clean clothes in closet or drawers, dirty clothes in laundry. Put toys, sports gear and tools where they belong.

6. Do housework and homework on time and stick to it; and do it right!

7. Show respect to older people. Offer to give them a seat, hold doors for them, or let them go first in line.

8. Congratulate each other's accomplishments! Appreciate each other's very best efforts.

9. Use telephone manners. ALWAYS. Think of others around you when you're on the phone.

10. Don't shout to people in other rooms. Walk to wherever someone is and talk in a normal voice.

11. When you leave the table after a meal say, Excuse me please. Eat in designated eating areas only and if you've used a plate or drinking glass away from the table, rinse or wash it and put it where it belongs.

12. Take care of others' property carefully. Ask permission before borrowing and RETURN WHAT YOU BORROW. If you've lost it, apologize and replace it or pay for it.

13. Parents make decisions in serious matters and they decide what's serious.

14. DO NOT return a car home with less than a quarter-tank of gas, gah!

15. Come straight home from where you've been (unless you've gotten permission first to be somewhere else). Inform family members where you're going, with whom and when you'll be home. If you're going to be late, call.

16. No profanity. No immorality. No violence. Don't watch TV and movies that promote that. No quarreling –  a soft answer turns away wrath.

17. Love Heavenly Father and thank him for home and family. Blessings. Ask Him for everything we need and for blessings for others. Pray in the morning, before meals and at bedtime. Pray always.

18. Attend church together as a family. Sit together as a family in Sacrament meeting.

19. Learn right from wrong and live Christ's commandments. Live high standards. Offer family members understanding and be willing to forgive often. Serve family members.

20. Love each other.

12 February 2015

Old Ship Zion

In my own handwriting, the Conference notes from Elder M. Russell Ballard's talk this past General Conference:

Rule #1, stay in the boat!... "dashed dreams and hopes" goodness, :-o, what was I writing? "The Old Ship Zion" metaphor for the church. If there's a "ship," implicit, too, is that there is a "harbor." How do we stay on the Old Ship Zion?

1. Exp. a continuing conversion, not once only, but regularly. That exp. notation must mean experience. Experience a continuing conversion!

2. Keep eyes on leaders; local, prophet, apostles, priesthood auth. w/keys. (Always wear a life jacket. Always hold on w/both hands.)

3. Become men and women of sound understanding in addition to scriptures we need to give ourselves "to much prayer and fasting." Avoid becoming distracted. (We can lose focus on gospel.) (We can begin to focus on appendages rather than center; ??? and doubts.)

4. Bear one another's burdens.
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President Brigham Young said, “We are in the midst of the ocean. A storm comes on, and, as sailors say, she labors very hard. ‘I am not going to stay here,’ says one; ‘I don’t believe this is the “Ship Zion.”’ ‘But we are in the midst of the ocean.’ ‘I don’t care, I am not going to stay here.’ Off goes the coat, and he jumps overboard. Will he not be drowned? Yes. So with those who leave this Church. It is the ‘Old Ship Zion,’ let us stay in it.”


On another occasion, President Young said that he also worried about people losing their way when they were being blessed—when life was good: “It is in calm weather, when the old ship of Zion is sailing with a gentle breeze, [and] when all is quiet on deck, that some of the brethren want to go out in the whaling boats to have… a swim, and some get drowned, others drifted away, and others again get back to the ship. Let us stick to the old ship and she will carry us [safely] into the harbor; you need not be concerned.”

And finally, President Young reminded the Saints: “We are on the old ship Zion. … [God] is at the helm and will stay there. … All is right, sing Hallelujah, for the Lord is here. He dictates, guides and directs. If the people will have implicit confidence in their God, never forsake their covenants nor their God, He will guide us right.”

11 February 2015

Adjusted expectations

Vicki from the novel "Barefoot" I finished days ago is a cancer survivor. She's had a summer of chemo, then surgery in the fall to remove her cancerous lung. Recovery has been horrific; she's months into it and attending group therapy.
"Vicki felt empty and she imagined her chest cavity as literally empty. She imagined that, along with the cancer, Dr. Jason Emery has removed her capacity for getting things done, her good luck, and her happiness. She went to physical therapy; she went back to the psychotherapist.
She was better, yes. She was cancer-free, cured, a survivor. But she wasn't herself and what was the point of getting better if her essential Vicki-ness had been lost? All her life, things had come easily. Now, the only thing that came easily was lying in bed and watching TV... she hated herself for it."
Of the entire book, the final sentences (below) were have become my favorite. Recovery from any shock, depletion, illness, dilemma is awful at first; and in the middle and perhaps right to the end. You certainly have no guarantee of returning to your former self; the essential you changes. As in Vicki's case, what "came easily" may, after a serious life event, be compromised. Death, divorce, depression, anxiety, obesity, illness, breakdown, seizures after surgery (with its cocktail of anesthesia meds): these my sibs and I have spent time recovering from. Troubles.

Recovery on the other hand can be awe-full. It is packed with life lessons we wouldn't trade for easier lives, no. It's work and education and repentance and building on minor successes rather than dismissing these... transformation that inspires and is inspiring.


Amen.


— Elin Hilderbrand, Barefoot

10 February 2015

Most deeply held desires

'If with all your heart ye truly seek Me, ye shall ever surely find Me,' Thus saith our God. Oh! that I knew where I might find Him, that I might even come before His presence! Oh! that I knew where I might find Him!... 'If with all your heart ye truly seek Me; Ye shall ever surely find Me,' Thus saith our God. Mendelssohn's Oratorio Elijah
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I'm enjoying reading Bruce C. Hafen's "The Believing Heart" the last couple of days. The opening lines to chapter two are these above from Mendelssohn's Elijah, words Elder Hafen describes as exquisite, with tender spiritual depth. Too, I've thought long and hard about the article in this month's Ensign by Lawrence Corbridge about which I've posted, "The Most Important Things," (link) in which he invites: "So, what do you want? Hopefully you can identify one or two things that occupy most of your thoughts and are your predominant desires."

Elder Corbridge asks if "there is something more important than all other things, would it be important to learn it, remember it, and give it the highest priority in our lives?" He reminds us "Alma says there is something that is most important... one thing which is of more importance than they all—" and describes the Redeemer who is to come in a time not far distant to live among men.

Elder Corbridge extends to us four "most important things" to which we could aspire. Elder Hafen also compellingly writes of such  though in different vernacular, the beginning of which is the Lord's declaration, "If with all your heart ye truly seek me..."



"We must desire to find God above all other desires. If we want a real testimony, if we want to seek God until we find him, even if we want eternal life - all three things can be ours, if we desire them, so long as we do not desire other things more. We show what we really want by what we do, not just by what we say. So if we say we desire to grow in our faith, but the way we live suggests otherwise, we probably want something else more than we want eternal life. It might be our friends. It might be physical pleasures. Or it might only be that we don't want the Church bothering us with meetings and rules and guilt trips. Whatever it is we want so much, we are likely some day to have it. Not only will the righteous desires of our heart be granted, the unrighteous desires of our hearts will also be granted. Over the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add up to what we have really wanted."

09 February 2015

Transform


I sat alone upon some jutting eminence,
          At the first gleam of dawn-light, when the Vale,
          Yet slumbering, lay in utter solitude.

Oft in these moments such a holy calm
          Would overspread my soul, that bodily eyes
          Were utterly forgotten, and what I saw
          Appeared like something in myself, a dream,
          A prospect in the mind.
                William Wordsworth, The Prelude

'Tis - but I cannot name it -'tis the sense 
         Of majesty, and beauty, and repose, 
         A blended holiness of earth and sky, 
         Something that makes this individual spot 
         A whole, without dependence or defect, 
         Made for itself, and happy in itself, 
         Perfect contentment, unity entire. 
               William Wordsworth, The Recluse, Book First - Home at Grasmere

Can I say I love this prose...! I get that for Wordsworth reality could morph into almost-mysticism at his intense inner gaze. I read about him that he began to comprehend his life mission would be influenced by a higher power, not himself alone. This was enhanced by his sister Dorothy joining him and showing him details of life he could not at first perceive. From "The Poet Wordsworth," (link) by Rev. W. Tuckwell:
Dorothy Wordsworth was one of those rare beings, at once highly gifted and self-abnegating, who are content to minister to another's genius and be lost in another's light. She possessed phenomenally what her brother lacked: sensitiveness to the minuter loveliness of Nature, the details of sun and cloud, of light and shade, of tree colouring and wild flower grouping, of snowflake and raindrop, butterfly and bird, of nodding daffodil and fading celandine. These things were not noted by her brother until she couched his eye to see them: once seen, they yielded up to him their treasures of immortal meaning; but many of his most delicate verses would never have been written but for her intellectual second sight, discerning and presenting to him the materials for poetic evolution:—

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears,
And humble cares, and delicate fears,
A heart, the fountain of sweet tears,
And love, and thought, and joy.

And she did more than this. Intervening at the critical moment of his life, she saved him from despondency, cleared his heart, and head,

Maintained for me a saving intercourse
With my true self:
She whispered still that brightness would return,
She, in the midst of all, preserved me still
A Poet, made me seek, beneath that name,
And that alone, my office upon earth.
Volume 12, no. 9, September 1901, pgs. 665-683
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Don't you agree this description of her even Wordsworth's response is as lovely as the prose (and poetic as the picture)! Ah, are we not so loved by God, and blessed, that His spirit may always be with us! Gifted of Him to emanate His beauty and power. We are surrounded by loved ones who themselves offer up blessings and encouragement, dear ones to us.

We are filled with wonder and a zeal to create and transform!

08 February 2015

Everything but the kitchen sink

A month to the day after that (link, please DO go to my post on January 8th, Hole, Foundation, Walls for a quick reminder), here's this :
  1. Cement pumper across the street from us before dawn with cement trucks queued up behind.
  2. The sun rises as that finishes emitting cement for the garage floor.
  3. Done, the dregs deposited where the driveway will go.
  4. Framing.
  5. Walls.
  6. Roof trusses... and
  7. Roof fully on and dormer built.
  8. Shingles delivered, piled atop roof. Rebar installed for porch to be poured.
  9. (The pumper again early, bored, no pic.) Porch, sidewalk and driveway poured and leveled. Shingling happening up top.
  10. Shingled. Windows installed. Cleaned up; no more buzz saws. (Next hole ready to be dug?)


And besides and who needs more pics

the HVAC, plumbing and electrical trucks've come.

And gone.

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