Moving On

The McKinnons are gone. Their time was up so they have gone home. Randall and I are sad because we both really liked them. They will be missed. They have been replaced by the Gardner's. Super nice people. Both are hard workers, I can't keep up. They will only be here for about a month until the Dustin's get here. Elder Gardner (Bob) is 70 and is a retired army helicopter pilot/engineer. Sister Gardner (Leslie) is 69 and is a retired lawyer. Short story about Sister Gardner and me, when I found out she was a lawyer (me being so smart) said, “Cool I don't know any lawyers”. Well later I was telling Randall what I had said and he looked at me like I was out of my mind. Then he said, “What do you think Karl is (My Bother In-Law)? “Oh”, I said (how smart can I get, right) then he said, “What about Elder Walker (The senior couple from Gymon branch)? OK, proven, once again, I am not the sharpest tool in the shed.

We are done with the Lodge!

New Kitchen with Island and stove. Beautiful! Don't you agree?

New bathroom and laundry room and the Island with it's new stove. Nice!

New finished bathroom. We got to order the cool
shower curtain because it is a hunting lodge!

Now on to house #3. We have torn out the walls upstairs and the ceilings upstairs and down stairs.The bathroom and kitchen have also been striped. So we are down to the studs again except for the downstairs. We don't need to tear out the sheet rock in the basement, it's in good shape. The basement bathroom will need to be totally gutted though and we have only started that. Randall is going to have to do some fancy foot work with the roof because of sagging and moving. I'll let him explain in his Tidbit section. We tore all the stucco off the outside of the house. Randall was so proud of us, we did it in 1 and 1/2 days. Really hard work, especially carrying the pieces to the dumpster, they were supper heavy. Going to show you lots of pictures of what's been going on so far.

Ann carrying out insulation. See only studs.

Elder Gardner ripping out the ceiling. You don't even want to
know what was up there.

Front of house before.

Randall cutting the stucco.

Front of house after. Messy!

Back of house before.

Back of house after.

Elder and Sister Gardner, Randall, and James one of the ranch hands.
Having a well deserved break.

We have also gotten the house wrapped. Windows ordered, cabinet layout and mowed/watered the lawns all in one week. We are AWESOME old people!

Elder Gardner and Randall wrapping the house.

Elder and Sister Gardner and Randall wrapping the house.

Randall and Armondo (Head Manager of the whole thing, feed yard and ranch).
We love Armondo!

We've been busy and it feels good. Love you! Happy Birthday Abby Abby!

Good Day!

Still on the Lodge

Sorry for the huge gaps from one post to the next. Our internet hasn't been the same since we had our computer go down. There is still another blog post after this one that I've written ready to post. Aghhhh! I will survive and conqueror!

We are still working on the Office/Lodge. I'm painting, staining and varnishing. The boys are tearing things out and building them back. They decided to put in an island for the stove and it looks great! Biggest problem we are having is everything was tiled before so we've had a hard time matching the tiles the original builders used. I think what Randall has found will work in just fine.

Ann painting laundry room at the lodge.

Randall is letting me take the plastic off of the windows. Yahooo! I guess this means he feels spring is officially here. I need to start mowing the lawns/weeds and the weeds need to be sprayed. Randall is going to see if we can get a weed sprayer to pull behind the lawn mower, won't that be fun? Along with all the fun stuff, we'll have the hot humid weather to deal with, that's not fun. We will live.

Plastic on.

Plastic off.

We had General Conference and watched it on the big screen in the lodge. It was very uplifting. I realize I need to look at people in the way Jesus did. He looked past what showed on the outside into their souls. When you can do that you can see not only who a person is but what they can be if given the chance. He hated the sin, not the sinner. It's going to be a hard thing for me to do, if I ever can.

Love you,

Good day!

They Have One of My Favorite Things

I can't believe it! They have a quilt club in Ulysses! Yes, I know who knew! I made arrangements to have lunch with the two friends I made in Ulysses, Carol Egley and Carolyn Crone. Carol said she had quilt club that morning but could make lunch. I said, “YOU HAVE A QUILT CLUB HERE!” So guess who went to quilt club that morning? I had such a great time, quilters are the same everywhere, so nice! Anyway I'm going to join even though I'll only be here a short time longer. After that we had lunch together it was one of those perfect days.

We have been progressing on the Office/Lodge. Randall needs to finish with the drywall (we didn't hire out this time since it was a small job). After that we install the vanity and hang the doors to both the utility room and new bathroom (I have been doing the finishing, stain and polyurethane on them). Our biggest dilemma here is try to find tile to match the existing tile. No-one is around who knows were the tile even came from or who did the work. I think we will end up going with something similar and call it good.

It's started to get green, the winter wheat has come up so most of the pivots are green. The trees are budding, the trees we planted last year have flowered and I have started watering the grass. I won't need to take care of the whole place this time since we have two family's living in the houses.

Love you all lots,

Good Day.