4 weeks again, sorry again

For our overseas viewers...

Vehicle maintenance 

scout flag ceremony at football game

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Ben shows his girlfriend a good time. Peeling sweet taters

Moved my halloween decoration to the barn

Nick and I went camping 2 nights for cub scouts

sunrise over lake campsite north of Paris, TX

Found another gate

My bicycle basket from 40 years ago. Plus part of an old model "T"

Green tomatoes salvaged before frost. Grandma made relish (chow-chow)

This happened

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cement dust from cutting backer-board, smelled like getting a cavity filled while your hair was burning.

crazy Blake plumbing

This took a long time

tiles going up

life saver

shower

Sunday, Gun Day, Fun Day

Target practice. Watermelons didn't go to waste.

shotgun rebuild. to be continued...

Sorry, that was too long

Sorry, busy. Pix now.

What has happened since the last update? Cristina returned to CA to fill in some more at her old job. While there she went to comedy club.

Jo Koy

Shabu

She returned mid-October to attend a cub scout "Mommy and Me" camp-out. After I picked her up in Dallas !Ebola!, we grabbed a bunch of In-and-Out burgers.

The drive to the camp

camp site

BB gun range

Good shootin'

Archery

Awards ceremony

"Top Shot" award. Best shot of all Webelo scouts. That's my boy.

CPR training

Mopsy inspects tent during dry run set up.

Built a mini toolbox

More Boy scout Camp pix

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Texture going on ceiling at the "Manor"

Return of Jorge, part III

22 toes total

Ben's practice ACT test (ACT is like SAT for mid and eastern US)

Cristina carried this back from CA, thanks Nicole!

"Oops, I did it again", to quote Brittany. Cut and dropped a tree limb on my toe. Cristina had just been telling me I need to get work boots. Is it broken? Close enough. It hurt so bad I couldn't even say bad words; I just made this sound- "heeeeeee, heeeeee, heeeeeeeee!"

Below is from 2009

Silly wig day at school. No wigs at house, so he used fake spider web.

I decorated for Halloween

Nick running the flag ceremony at scout meeting

red tide in the small pond

Nick picked up some silver in Oklahoma City recently

Mower repair shop. I remove old rope, copper wire, baling wire, etc. from the blades here.

grilled okra again

Hi-lift jack accident. Using jack to pull up t-posts. Something slipped I guess and then I was on my back looking up at the sky.

Grandma made okra pickles

Bought a shotgun

Cristina wished we had a barn cat. Then this showed up. I'm gonna' ask her to wish for winning lottery tickets.

Nick digging out the sidewalk at the manor. 20 years of debris built up.

Found this shed skin inside the manor.

Hello

Grilled okra again

Smoked some pork and chicken

Homecoming parade

My Brother came for a visit

Pine box derby

2 tons old hay/cow manure for next year garden

shot patterns from shotgun before I cut down the barrel

In the yard

In a tree in the yard

Rainy day so I burned the big brush pile

Ben knocks out the walls of the goose pen to make a little patio area at the manor.