Yep. Our last post was on March 19th. These past couple of months flew by, and strangely have not resulted in a ton getting done around 'ol Shangri La. We've accomplished a couple of things, but nothing truly exciting. Rather than bore you with a bunch of jibber jabber, how about we go with some pictures with a tad bit of commentary. Cool? OK...let's push on with getting caught up.
These will be in darn close to chronological order, and I'll break it down for you by month. :)
April
These next few pics are of areas Shelly cleared and cleaned up. :)
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| Before Shelly kicked butt |
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| After! |
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| Before Shelly went all medieval. |
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| After! |
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| Before Shelly opened a can of whupass. |
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| After! |
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| Our first northern MI garden. In later pics you'll see that Mother Nature is laughing her butt off at us. |
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| The last update had the first section of basement insulated and framed. Section 2...done! |
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| Cut up and split some deadfall, to supplement the load of firewood we'll need to buy. Got to feed the beast! |
May
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| Not too bad of a grading job, for an upside down plow with a cinder block on it being towed behind a garden tractor. |
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| Ten cord of firewood being delivered and stacked by a really cool truck. |
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| Ten cord of firewood...delivered! That should get us through two seasons. |
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| Our new tractor being delivered by another cool truck. This one is cool only because it's delivering our new tractor. |
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| That's me on our new Kubota BX1860. That smile? It only looks like it wraps all the way around my head. |
These next pics are befores and afters for the painting of our son Michael's room. :)
We really have nothing for June as far as activities around here. It was a crazy month, which included a trip to Arizona for a campus tour for our youngest son's new college. Yep...June was a blur. :)
July
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| That picture of the freshly tilled garden-to-be? Yeah...this is that same space. Did I not tell you that Mother Nature had a good laugh on us? We left for a week, and came back to a lawn where a garden should be. |
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| To add insult to injury, what little we've been able to grow is feeding the local bunny population...which by all accounts is quite extensive. Apparently they really do multiply like, well...bunnies. |
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| So, Shelly toned down her ambitions for this year. She bought a few plants, and commenced to make them bunny-proof. |
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| That's about two cords out of the ten, cut and stacked. We're going to wait for cooler weather before we tackle any more of that pile. WHEW! |
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| The third 1/4th of the basement, with the walls caulked and Dry Lok'd and two coats of paint on the floor. It's all ready for framing and insulation...after some rerouting of plumbing, anyway. |
So, that gets us caught right up to today. Literally, to today. I put the second coat of floor paint down just this evening.
Looking back on it all, I'm going to take back what I said at the start of this post...about not a ton getting done. We actually did accomplish some stuff around here since March 19th. I'm glad I did this. I'm feeling much better now. :)
Talk to you all soon!
