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Posted on Thursday, December 01, 2016
Gray House
I was glad to sign over the gray house to Nelson Lee
yesterday in exchange for him demolishing the tax sale house. That
means, no more $1,100+ property taxes, no more water, no sewage, no
insurance or electricity bills to pay on a place we didn't want and that
wasn't generating any income for us. Nelson Enterprises boarded up the
windows and parked their track hoe in the yard. His current plans are to
demolish the house trailer and rehab the house. Just glad it is not our
problem any longer.
Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Early Christmas Spirit
Linda had been putting the Christmas hat on Coco for a
couple of days, so we worked together with Stacey and took a picture of
him on the Santa rug in front of the Christmas tree. It required several
shots before we were able to get him to remain still for the picture. We
are loaning the red utility trailer to a group in Burkesville to haul a
load of Christmas gifts to Louisville on Saturday, so we had to move the
old cars out of the pole barn and pull the trailer outside. While I had
it hooked to the truck I asked Linda if she wanted to go to Central
Furniture and pick out a new recliner. She did, so we drove through
Greensburg to the furniture store and bought the recliner of her choice,
then hauled it back to the farm and carried it inside. I left the
trailer out side of the pole barn for the group to hook onto and haul
their gifts to Louisville this coming Saturday.
Linda
seems happy with her new "control chair" that rocks and reclines.
Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Freezing Fog
Yesterday and this morning there was a fog hanging over the farm. This
wasn't unusual, but it was unusual that the fog was freezing on the
trees and grass. I drove the Mule across the creek and took a few
pictures before we headed to Glasgow.
We
met Pauline, Brent, Julie & Kyle at Applebee's to eat lunch before going
to the Star Wars : Rogue One showing. The show was fairly interesting
and explained several of the oddities of the orginal Star Wars episode.
Julie and Kyle didn't care much for the way this episode ended, it was
not what they expected.
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2016
Pictures For Christmas
After watching the Star Wars:Rogue One showing, we took Julie and Kyle
with us to the farm.
The next morning, I started their day with
having them shower, dry their hair and get dressed for pictures that
Pauline wanted me to take. Not a lot to say about that, except I took a
lot of shots and then picked what I thought were the best ones. I
transferred the files to a memory stick and had three 8 by 10s printed
at Walmart.
Linda
placed the pictures in the white frames I had bought and then wrapped
them for Christmas presents for Pauline & Brent.
Posted on Sunday, December 25, 2016
Christmas 2016
Pauline and Brent arrived Friday afternoon with Poco and Pepper. They
carried in a lot Christmas presents, then we chatted for a little while
before eating the roast beef Manhattans that Linda had cooked.
Saturday
morning I fixed breakfast, then we let Pepper run between rain showers.
We went to Major's Pizza for lunch and when we returned there was a
present marked "Open Now!" for Julie, Kyle & Stacey. It was a
combination VCR & DVD player for them to watch videos upstairs. Brent
and I hooked it up and started the "Grinch Who Stole Christmas" for the
kids to watch. Later, Linda, Pauline and Julie made a 'fruit pizza' with
cookie crust, a marshmallow fluff & cream cheese sauce, and several
types of fruit as a topping.
Christmas
morning, I took a picture of Brent's family before we opened presents,
then I just enjoyed watching the madness as the presents were handed out
and opened. I took a picture of Julie after she had arranged her gifts
and was looking through them.
Pauline
and Julie tried on some of their new clothing and I took a picture of
them.
We
burned all of the Christmas present wrappings down at the fire pit by
the shelter house. The weather was really warm and the sun was out, so
we took Pepper and Daisy for a run around the fields across the creek
from the house. We stopped at the pole barn and ate pop sickles before
going back inside. There was a fog rising off of the creek water while
we sat inside and played Euchre right before Brent left with his family
a little after dark.
Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2016
Last Daleville Trip of 2016
We met Brent, Pauline, Julie and Kyle in Glasgow to pick up Kyle. He
returned to the farm with us so we could leave for IN early Thursday
morning.
We ate sausage breakfast and took our medicine before
leaving the farm a few minutes before 8 AM CST. We stopped at the rest
area and let Coco and everyone do their business, then continued on to
Daleville. Traffic was at a minimum and we arrived at 1:30 PM EST. After
unloading our things, I called Pizza King and ordered. Twenty minutes
later I was headed back to Daleville with a 16" Royal Feast. Everyone
was eager to tear into the box, but I managed to slow Kyle down to take
a picture.
We
posted it on FB to tease Pauline & Brent. Several other people were
jealous because they like Pizza King and it isn't available in KY. I
took some pictures of the white house with the empty Tax Sale lot, the
gray house lot and Elbert's.
