Blueberries

 

 

 

Here we are cleaning and bagging blueberries we picked today in Georgia. We have 14 bags in the freezer and some in the refrigerator to eat fresh!

Lowrey Again

 

 

 

I am now starting a Lowrey "Play For Fun" organ program here in Tennessee. This is my work place!

Natalie Plays For Church

 

This morning, Natalie played "God Is So Good," for both services at church. I accompanied her and everyone seemed to enjoy her participation very much.

Surprise behind the new door!

 

 

If you look closely you can see some fingers where the door knob should be. I think something is in there! . . . Surprise! It's Natalie!! (Look at sister Joelle snickering in the background)

Building a Kitchen

 

 

 

 

Our carpenters are putting together our new kitchen. Sandra and her mom are studying two countertop samples and Doreen is sounding her opinions on the matter.

A Painting Job

 

 

 

 

I have been doing an inside painting job in a house which is 55 miles from where we live. It is located up in the knobs off the road about two miles. You get there on a two track mountain trail up the hill, through a fjord and back in a Holler! There is no cell phone service because the house is surrounded by high hills. Here are some pictures of the place. It really is quiet and peacful up there. Sandra has been going with me. We take a lunch and make a picnic outing out of the trip.

Almost finished

 

 

 

 

Here are a couple pictures of the downstairs bedroom w/carpet and paint and the bathroom and utility room with patching on the floor to make it smooth. We are getting closer to having our house project finished.

Lunch at Grandma and Grandpa's

 

 

 

Here is the colorful table set for lunch while Natalie and Joelle's mom and dad are in Texas. And, of course after hay stacks comes ice cream!

Ready for Church

 

Here are Natalie and Joelle ready to go to church. Isn't this a great picture?

Child Sitting!

 

 

 

 

Bad Pa Pa - Playing with food! First a mustache, then a down smile (with disapproval from Natalie), then eyes blocked out and finally, grandma tried to get Joelle with a mustache but it fell off and looks like a little beard! The food? Oh, it's a mostly eaten veggie sausage pattie!

Covering Drain Lines With Concrete

 

 

 

 

Today we rented a small cement mixer so I could fill in the trenches in the floor where we took out concrete in order to install drain lines (see November 13, 2008 entry). This little mixer was so cool. I mixed two bags of quickcrete at a time and wheeled the mixer right in to the ditch. We only needed a half yard of cement so I bought 15 bags of ready mix which almost did the entire job. I had to go back for one more bag, 16 total. Now I can finish hanging sheet rock. Of course Sandra helps by holding the trouble light and taking pictures etc. . .

Construction progress

 

 

The electric rough-in is completed. We have a new panel which was very artistically wired. The garage is covered with sheet rock. Some of it is actually on the walls! Isn't it a mess?

Hungry?

 

Take a look at this relish tray Sandra made for the Super Bowl party tomorrow night! I'm getting hungry!

Making a room

 

 

Well, we are working on putting up sheetrock. I was trying to figure out how to work the sheetrock lift. Then you can see that Sandra and I figured it out. This is the garage and we are putting up 5/8" Fire Retarder Type X on the ceiling and the wall between the garage and the living space. I have almost finished hanging the sheetrock upstairs and this is the garage. There is also a bedroom and bathroom on the other side of the wall on the garage level.