Big random and Holiday catch up

Finally doing something I know; pulling network, phone, tv cable and phone lines in the project house.

Cristina and I were puttering around out in the woods and I realized we were near where I had a little clubhouse when I was a kid. We looked around a few minutes and found it. My Dad built this for me over 40 years ago.

Industrial rack in the woods. Again with trees growing up through it.

This week's "What is it?". Very heavy steel, the 4 square holes are wired for electricity.

I found where we keep the really long staples. I guess more than 100,000 in this pile.

We found the sink storage area. At least 2 here.

Poop

Christmas decorations up on the house.

Ben helps me siphon the "wine".

Cup as big as his head.

We drove to the Bay Area for Christmas. 36 hours in the van. Very hectic visit, I apologize to the many people that we planned to visit but couldn't because we ran out of time.

Union Square

Christmas at Mom's

Working on Vallejo house. Cristina planes down an ill-fitting door.

Road trip back to Oklahoma.

Cristina laughed at this. ?

Boredom setting in. Another 36 hours back.

Cold when we got home at 2am

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The next morning

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One of my Christmas gifts. Oh so good.

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Homemade sawmill

Oak planks

Nick has now taken on dishwashing duty.

Thrilled to help out.

Deer in the field. I think they realize deer season is over.

Why the map? Cristina needs to renew her passport. There is no passport office here, so we have to do it by mail. We needed new photos for passport. But where can we get them? Wal-Mart is the only place that can do passport pix here. So we went to Broken Bow Wal-Mart. We found that the picture printer there is down. Ok, we'll go to Idabel. Broken Bow dude offered to call Idabel to confirm their printer was working. We watched him wait on hold for 10-12 minutes and then told him forget it, we would just go there. Drive to Idabel and find that their printer will be down all day for maint. Crap. Now what? DeQueen Arkansas Wal-Mart is 30 miles away. We drive over there. Printer is broken. We give up for the day.

The next morning we call Broken Bow; still not working. We call Idabel, I ask,

"Is your photo  printer working?"

Them - "Mmmmh, .....what are you trying to print?"

Me- "Passport pictures."

Them - "Mmmmmh,.....oh,........yeah. When are you coming?"

Me - "Uh, maybe 30 minutes."

Them - "Mmmmh,....yeah,.....ok."

This doesn't give me great confidence, but we drive over anyway. It took an hour and 3 employees, but we got the pictures.