Norris Family Blog

Extra Nice Weekend

Linda and Stacey came home late Friday night after two days at PB&Js doing who know's what. Saturday started out a little cloudy, but quickly cleared up and warmed up nicely. I put together a new set of tool boxes that I had picked up in Glasgow at Sears. Then Linda wanted to clean up a pile of wood that I had stacked down where the old house used to be. I left it there to burn in the fire pit but over the winter, several of the pieces had rotted. We started a fire with the cardboard boxes the tool boxes were packed in and used twigs and leaves that Linda and Stacey raked up to start the larger pieces of wood burning. There were a few pieces of fence that was around Regina's ostriches that needed burnt too. After most of those were burnt, I started the tractor a scraped the rotten wood up in a pile, then scooped it up and dumped it in the creek. It floated away. I used the scoop to dig up a stump from where an apple tree had broke off nearly a year ago. Lastly, I picked up a large log with the back hoe and Linda helped by dumping it in the creek. We took Daisy to the barn and Stacey went inside as Nancy and Steve Riddle stopped. Linda brought us out a can of pop each and we went back down to the fire pit and set around talking about what they had done out at their farm and what we had been doing. We were wishing we had marshmallows and hot dogs to roast on the fire, but we were out of luck on those. Nancy and Steve left around 8 PM and we went inside.
Sunday, Linda woke up with a sore throat and her sinus were draining and giving her a headache, so Stacey and I took Daisy for a run in the morning. The temperature was warm enough that I was working outside with just a t-shirt. I did a little bush hogging back in the holler while the weeds are dead and I can see what I'm cutting. I also helped Steve make a list of what he needs to build a shed on the side of an old building out at his place. Stacey and I watched the NASCAR race afterwards.