Saturday, October 16, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Sun. 10/03/10
Steven rode his motorcycle out to Sunday School this morning. While he was gone, we did some yard clean-up. Tristan helped me carry the picnic table back over by the swingset for the winter. The workshop roof has been leaking and it doesn't look like we're going to be able to fix it before winter, so we put a huge tarp over it. Now Steven's tools won't get ruined by rain or snowmelt. We have a pile of paneling Maria gave us a couple years ago, which we hope to use in the uhaul. The tarp over it was getting ratty, so we put a better tarp over it.
When Steven got home he worked on the back door, reversing it to open the other way, which meant moving the hinges and chipping out new places for the hinges to recess into the frame. Tristan went out to split firewood for a while.
While we ate the pizza we watched the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!", about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I'd never seen it, though I've seen the newer movie, "Pearl Harbor". Very sad what happened, all those years ago.
It was a long movie with an intermission in it, so Steven made popcorn and hot chocolate during the intermission.
Most of the Aspen leaves have fluttered to the ground now, though the bushes still have at least half their leaves. After a sunny week we had clouds and occasional showers today. The temperature was nice.
Happy Birthday, Stephen!
Happy birthday, Stephen!
May it be a wonderful year!
We didn't have enough candles, so those candles are crossed to be Roman numberals: two "x"s to make "20"!
We didn't have enough candles, so those candles are crossed to be Roman numberals: two "x"s to make "20"!
Stephen and Tristan spent many hours playing "Dead Rising 2" on X-box, working on one quest, and after 3 hours they took a wrong turn and had to redo the whole 3 hours! Aughhh!
Amazing, these video games nowdays. I remember how cool we thought "Pong" was back in the 70's, and the Atari and Commodore games were just amazing to us. Now look at them!
Fri. 10/01/10 Pickle on the road
I also jarred up dried raspberry leaves, oregano, calendula flowers, and a few other things that escape my mind right now.
See the pretty Fall colors around the car?
Steven finished fixing the motorcycle. He had to put new seals on the front shock, a new battery, and a new front tire. We waited all summer for the time and money to come together at the same time. I'm so grateful he can do the work himself, once we get the parts.
Steven jokingly calls it his "motor-pickle", which amuses me!
He took it out for a ride Friday afternoon. I was going to go along but I couldn't find my helmet. I moved it when I cleaned out my old room to make it into a bathroom, and I can't find where I put it. I would have been concerned that the face shield not get crushed and crack, so I probably put it somewhere "safe"! Finally I told him to go ahead and go, that I'd get a ride another time!
The weather was perfect for the time of year, and he had a great ride.
The weather was perfect for the time of year, and he had a great ride.
Wed/Thur 9/29,9/30, 2010
On the way home we stopped so Steven could throw another bale of hay to the buffalo.
The cooking area will be under the window on the left. That will include an RV propane stove with 3 burners and an oven (salvaged!) and a small double stainless-steel sink we found at the dump a few years ago.
The window to the right will be over our "easy" chairs with a small lamp table between them.
He still has to put in the front window over the cab where the bed will be. Then he's going to take off the double back doors and build a wall with a door in the middle. We still have to put insulation and paneling in, too.
I don't know how much we'll get done before we get snowed in.
When the soup was done I thickened it into a stew and made "dumplings" and blopped them into the stew and let them cook.
I made iced tea with rose hips to drink with it. I've never made cold rose hip tea before, and it was quite good. I make it as a hot tea in the winter sometimes. Another one of those free and abundant foods around our cabin.
Plus, they're high in Vitamin C!
Tues. 9/28/2010 Starting on the uhaul
I got to play with our medical supplies and tend to them and bandage it.
Then he put a glove over it and went back out and finished the second hole and got those two windows put in!
Later on, the table will sit under the windows, and a chair on each side.
Sat/Sun/Mon 9/25 to 9/27, 2010
Barbara and Victor came up Saturday for a visit. Victor and Steven spent a little time on our shooting range, and Barbara and I stayed up by the cabin and talked. The weather was nice, for once! Usually when they come it's rainy and/or cold! We had spaghetti-type stuff for dinner, made with penne pasta instead of spaghetti pasta, mainly because that's what kind of pasta I had on hand! I made cornbread, too, which didn't come out as good as usual, which usually happens to me! When no one is here this stuff comes out great, but when it matters (like when we have company) it doesn't! I also had made zucchini brownies and frosted them, but we were so full from dinner that it was hard to eat them!
Sunday and Monday are mixed up in my head. The following pictures are from both days but I don't remember which are from which. That's what I get for blowing off keeping my blog updated!
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