Happy Halloween!

 

Hi.

I'm back!

Wow, what a wonderful visit!

And then I needed a bit to recuperate!

The flight home was uneventful.

And the drive was nice.

(windy, but nice...)

We got home just after dark.

And went to BED.

Wednesday I spent the day with Kyle.

We needed groceries.

Then on Thursday I went to the farm

and we brought the big dogs back to town.

(They are bugging the pigs and Kyle is

WAAAAAY too busy to have all those

animals right now. Eventually, when the

house build is a little less intense,

we will move them back.)

Rod has been working on getting 

Kyle's new pump for his well all ready

to drop in the hole.

Plus he caught a cold.

And I cooked up 2 pork roasts

(in the pressure cooker)

and pulled it for dinner for 

the missionaries.

We had pulled pork sandwiches,

coleslaw, (which people around here

put ON their pulled pork sandwich...

WEIRD)

and potato salad.

And cookies (Walmart bakery)

for desert.

We had a nice visit with them.

They helped me take down a dog crate

and move it to the garage and put it

back up for Luna.

And also put up the table in the living room.

Today....

Kyle is coming over and we are heading

into town to Home Depot to buy all

the windows for the house.

They are 10% off today and tomorrow

and I HATE going into town on Saturday.

He had to pause pouring the concrete

around the posts since it has been below

freezing overnight the last few nights.

But it is warming up again next week

so he will get back to it.

He only has 6 more to go.

But it's a process.

You lift four 60 pound bags of concrete

into the mixer. Add water and let it mix.

Then you dump some into an orange

pail and lift it into the 5 foot tall form.

Do that until it's full to about 4 feet.

(Even with the ground outside the hole...)

And then do it all again.

Each post takes 12 bags of concrete,

so you do it 3 times for each post.

He moved over 4,000 pounds of

concrete on Monday.

But each bag needed to be handled 

multiple times, so he actually moved

over 17,000 pounds of concrete.

On Monday.

He's a little tired.

And totally amazing.

But I'd best get me some breakfast

and be ready when he gets here.