After cutting down that tree at the bottom of the hill, he cut it in chunks and brought it up to the little barn to split up into fire wood. He worked the splitter while his parents stacked the wood in the little barn.
They had plenty to do.
There was several dead trees out in the woods that Roger's mom wanted cut down, so he got out his tools and headed for the woods.
This is the first one. Roger had me watching the dog while he cut it down to make sure the dog stayed out of the way.
The 2nd one was leaning quite a bit and already had Fungi growing on it.
He scoped out where he wanted it to fall. It wasn't leaning in quite the direction he wanted it to go.
Then he made his first cut in the direction he wanted it to go.
That old dead tree was pretty tall.
Ahh. Just where he wanted it to land....on top of the pile of turkey poop.
Roger cut the tree in chunks while his dad chopped the limbs off with the axe.
Meanwhile, the clouds were parting to give us a little sunshine.
Saturday I went to a baby shower for my niece, Becky. She is having a girl and her name is Nichole Vivian.
We did the usually stuff......played games (I won 2 of them and I usually never win anything!) and talked loudly and laughed a lot. The men stayed outside most of the time. There was one game I refused to play. They put pieces of different chocolate bars in disposable diapers and melted them a little in the microwave and squished them around so it looked like poop. Then they would smell (and even taste) what was in the diapers and write down what they thought was in each one. I did get a picture of my niece, Paua (we call her that because on her birthday cake I forgot to put the L in Paula) with her nose in a diaper with my phone, but I didn't know how to save it. That was a good picture, too. Oh well.
This is my sister, Pam. She played the game, too.
My nieces Paua and Jamie.
Nichole Vivian's first bracelet from her grandma Pam.
They had 3 cakes. They had a BBQ after the shower with hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad and some other yummy food, so I didn't have to cook dinner. Yeah!!!!
Sunday Roger and I were going to meet our son, Ken, and his family at the motorcycle race track to watch him and our grandson, Kyle, practice. After that all of us were going to meet Roger's folks in town for dinner for Father's Day. It had rained too much and the track was closed, so Ken and his family met us for church. After church, we all went into town to the Chinese buffet for lunch. Then we all met back at the bus and took a 4-generation picture. We had a good Father's day.
There is Roger's dad, Les, Roger, son Ken, and grandsons Aaron and Kyle. Goofy dog Missy had to get in the picture , too.
Last night after we went to bed, Missy started barking and barking and barking. Sometimes she will do that to get Roger to come outside and then give him her ball. She is goofy. We decided that we should check and see what she was barking about. She had a raccoon up a tree. They can really tear up a garden. So I held the flashlight while Roger shot it. It fell out of the tree still alive and Missy was right on it. While they were fighting it looked like the raccoon was attached to Missy's head. Well, Missy won that fight and the poor raccoon is no more. She is a good dog even if she is goofy.
I started on Christmas ornaments for this year (I do a different pattern every year so everyone gets one of each design). I make a bunch in different colors. I picked out a beautiful pattern that I had bought online a few years ago.
Beautiful, huh? Look at all that fringe! The pattern was well-written.
So, I got started beading. I made the band that went around the middle of the ball.
As it turned out, it was going to cost me about $15 in materials to make EACH ONE! Plus it was going to take me a couple days to make each one. That will never do, so I decided to make my own pattern with an idea I got from this one. This one has 78 pearls and 24 dagger beads. I only saved 2 peals, but the number of dagger beads went from 90 to 24. I can make 3-4 a day if I need to.
This is only partly done and I have finished 2 and started another. I would have gotten 3 done yesterday, but both of the ones that are finished, I had to take apart and start over when I had them partly done. On the first one, I didn't make the top ring quite big enough and the second one I took apart because the thread got so tangled at one point that I had to cut it.
I will take pictures of the finished ones for my next post. Until next time.........God bless.
Lila
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