This week has been a weird one. Finishing up one project and trying to transition to another.
Although we had a blast at the parsonage--we were ready to be done there. We have some outside repairs and work to do on a few of Alice's duplexes, and will start those tomorrow. We spent some time there Tuesday working on a materials list, figuring out what needed repaired before we painted, and re-arranging Bill's truck so that we were ready for this job. The back of his truck is a toolbox on wheels!! Since I worked Wednesday, and Bill had a major migraine, with kids to get here & there, we headed out this morning to Home Depot to pick up supplies, and deliver them to the rental. Tomorrow begins repair, pressure washing and clean up to prep for paint. The temps are much better--103 on Tuesday, 102 yesterday, and a beautiful 85 today. Tomorrow they are calling for 80, and Saturday 75....great weather for painting.
This is our new project. The duplex on the left is the one that has not been updated since the house was built in 1951--we found some of the same things we found in the Parsonage that was built in 1953--only some of it is worse!! We will be spending LOTS of time here! Don't you just love those circular overhangs? We need to fix those!!
Kristin finshed up the summer program though the parks. Last week was Pioneer Covered Wagon day--they had three wagons (bones, no cover--but wagon's just the same!) and traveled about 3 hours, with a stop for lunch. It was SO cool, and I would have loved to been a part of it! This week was the 150th birthday celebration for Oregon....and wrapped up the program. It was a BBQ, games, prizes and a cake. Kristin is sad it is over...she's had fun this summer.
Ryan has been keeping busy. No swim this month, but he has been hanging at the neighbors pool, and has been going to the youth group here in town at Community Chapel, as well as our youth group too. My feeling is that you can never have too much Youth Worship!
Although we had a blast at the parsonage--we were ready to be done there. We have some outside repairs and work to do on a few of Alice's duplexes, and will start those tomorrow. We spent some time there Tuesday working on a materials list, figuring out what needed repaired before we painted, and re-arranging Bill's truck so that we were ready for this job. The back of his truck is a toolbox on wheels!! Since I worked Wednesday, and Bill had a major migraine, with kids to get here & there, we headed out this morning to Home Depot to pick up supplies, and deliver them to the rental. Tomorrow begins repair, pressure washing and clean up to prep for paint. The temps are much better--103 on Tuesday, 102 yesterday, and a beautiful 85 today. Tomorrow they are calling for 80, and Saturday 75....great weather for painting.
This is our new project. The duplex on the left is the one that has not been updated since the house was built in 1951--we found some of the same things we found in the Parsonage that was built in 1953--only some of it is worse!! We will be spending LOTS of time here! Don't you just love those circular overhangs? We need to fix those!!To catch you up on the last few days of our busy schedule--here we go: Just odds & ends!!
Kristin finshed up the summer program though the parks. Last week was Pioneer Covered Wagon day--they had three wagons (bones, no cover--but wagon's just the same!) and traveled about 3 hours, with a stop for lunch. It was SO cool, and I would have loved to been a part of it! This week was the 150th birthday celebration for Oregon....and wrapped up the program. It was a BBQ, games, prizes and a cake. Kristin is sad it is over...she's had fun this summer. The kittens have finally taken over the house. We tried to move their litter box from the bathroom, and it has not been successful--YET!! We will work on it. The food has been moved, and we're doing well with that. They are no longer afraid of the dogs, but are still very cautious! Zorro loves the windowsill!
Ryan has been keeping busy. No swim this month, but he has been hanging at the neighbors pool, and has been going to the youth group here in town at Community Chapel, as well as our youth group too. My feeling is that you can never have too much Youth Worship!
Today...Robert found a BIG wolf spider at work. We've had these in the house before, but not quite this big. We watched it alive in the bottle for awhile, and then Robert put some ether in the bottle, so we could do some inspection tomorrow. We had a great microscope donated to the homeschool group, and I needed to test & learn to use this one, before classes begin, so we're going to look at it's eyes, mouth, and legs....should be interesting!! Kristin REALLY got into inspecting it with Robert. It was a good time. Thanks Robert for helping our home school science projects!
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Wish you could have seen Brooklyn when we had an even bigger spider scurry across the kitchen floor. I have never seen a little girl freak out so much! It was hard not to laugh! Miss you guys!
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