Sunday follow-up

Racked the "wine". Maybe not wine; sampled and it may be a little vinegary

Very pretty day

82°!!!!

I used the leaf blower for the last phase of the insulation removal, blew out the rafter area. Clogged the respirator. Check out my beanie to the left. It is black.

Haircut

Haircut

Haircut

Garlic

Bok choy and kale, growing slow...

Jorge passed by for a visit

Sunday catching up

Finished bagging the old insulation

1st load ready for the landfill

Gathered more pecans. More added after this pic, will have another 40 lbs. now

Bucket of "horseapples"

Cheaper than Bud Lite, and almost as good.

Grandma made pecan pie

I made pecan butter. Color is off in this picture, too green. It really looks like peanut butter.

we spent hours (maybe3-4?) Saturday raking/blowing/hauling leaves. Just from he front and side yards.

Next years garden patch (one of several?) with leaves applied. The hope is to kill the crab grass and improve the soil. 10'x35'~

A family friend came by and dropped off a flying squirrel he caught in his house. Squirrel was looking very rough, I didn't expect him to survive.

nearly lifeless

After recuperating for a few hours, he is no longer lifeless. He escaped his cage multiple times and raced around the living room. The blur on the back of the couch is him.

Trying to re-cage. Tricky because he is super fast and can bite very hard. Not hard enough to break the skin, but sharp and uncomfortable enough to make you let go when/if you catch him.

This doesn't look good...

Very cute. We were warned that he will make a commotion all night (nocturnal creature) and he did.

I suggested we name him "Rocky", but Nick chose "Buddy". Nick also observed that Buddy only has one nipple. I suggested that perhaps that was not a nipple and this may be a male flying squirrel.

Weird weather. 72° at 10:30 PM

...and 72° at 7 AM

cold weather has come

Clumps of ladybugs have collected behind stuff in the house. This clump strip was behind the edge of a tv pushed against the wall.

8:51 PM

6:47 AM

Frosty Pano

demo continues, random pics

Old insulation thigh deep

All old sheetrock down. All insulation down. All interior walls down.

Found this little guy on the front porch.

Today's pano

I set up the trail camera on a funny little path I found coming straight up the back of the dam, over the crest and down to the water. Caught a racoon and a beaver butt.

Big Sunday

Sunday; a day so packed with excitement we have to start the story on Saturday. Did that make sense?

Sat AM on swap shop (the radio version of craigslist), we heard an ad for a .22 rifle. Sat. afternoon we went to the dude's house (only a few miles away in the "Golden" community), and bought the rifle. Of course it turns out the dude knew my Dad. The guy was asking $75, but after he showed us the problem with the gun (very minor) he talked himself down $10 and we got the gun for $65. Awesome; no bullshit background check, waiting period, etc. Private property sold between private parties. Cash and a handshake, the way it should be.

It is a "Revelation model 120". It is really a Marlin model 60 that was produced for Western Auto in the early 1960's and given the Western Auto name. 

It was very dirty so we spent Sat evening cleaning it and Sunday evening we added a scope.

I know the scope mount looks funny; I believe this is a pistol scope and I had to push it all the way forward on the mounts in order to get full field of view.

Sunday AM I went to town and bought a bag of donuts. Shortly after I returned home my Dad's cousin arrived with a bunch of food. Cornbread dressing with venison (above), fried pies (below), biscuits with chocolate gravy (not pictured).

The weather today was very nice; warm and sunny. It confused a bunch of insects I guess. Wasps were buzzing all over the place and we had a lady bug swarm hit the house. I didn't get them in flight, but here are some that made it into the house.

Ben driving Grandma's Suzuki

Ben changed the oil.

We all went up to Beavers Bend for a Folk Festival and Craft fair.

We flashed the handicap placard, but the parking dude said handicap parking was full. I asked if we could just pull to the side to unload Grandpa. Parking dude #2 walked over to see what the problem was and recognized my Dad. He showed us to a parking spot that wasn't there a moment before...

One of the boys suggested we should get t-shirts made with grandpa's face on them. Grandpa pointed out that wouldn't always work out nicely...

Petting a pig

Garlic fries, butterfly potato chips, loaded baked potato with bbq brisket

We considered a glass of "Baconade", but nobody was brave enough.

Okie root beer

"One-lunger" that was powering...

an ice cream maker