Just a Few MORE Steps!

 Just a Few MORE Steps!

 

Seems to me that something always needs to be done around here. This morning the wind was not trying to blow me out of the yard, so the old woman got out to the hen house and took down a panel that had been torn loose and crumpled in that first bad wind storm. Needed to take the two pieces of paneling (siding) out of the long coop and measure them to the right length to replace that one sheet of plastic paneling. Finally drug them out of the coop, lined them up and marked the line to cut them, drug out the Skil saw, cut the freaking wood, and drug them over to the corner of the coop outside to fit them up against the corner where they needed to be placed and screwed or hammered in. Tried the hammer bit. FORGET that “shtuff”! Got out the big, heavy drill and the screws. THEN the old woman used her head and asked Albert to come help me! He had those two sheets up there in nothing flat and was willing to take an 18-pack of eggs home to his kids. Thank God for good neighbors.

 

Had a piece of that stupid particle board stuff that splinters in every possible direction that had at one time been nailed up to the backside of the front coop. It ended up next to the back of the workshop and was dangerous for Thompson and Sylvia if they went under it. SO, drug that sucker out and propped it up on a concrete block. Using only the left leg, my weight was enough to break it up a little bit at a time. Got that mess deposited into the trash bin. [That sucker is going to be heavy!] Then cut up and broke up some plastic water line that had been removed when the plumbers did some work on the backside of the house. That went into the bin as well. Just a little bit at a time is all it is going to take, but eventually the back yard will be in better shape. Even noticed a water hose stored in the long coop that had lost its exterior end that can be used to semi-replace the good hose that was out front. The plumber tried to take the ends lose and broke it off inside the little screw-on part. Sigh. He told me that it could be fixed with one of those kits, but he also said that those did not work very well. It figures. He did not even try to remove the piece of metal that had broken off. Not sure it can be removed, but know Lewis would have been caught trying!!

 

Really enjoyed my grandson and his girlfriend’s visit last night. Had not seen Rylan since he was about ten. His girlfriend/SO is a very sweet girl who is going to community college near where she lives. She actually lives very close to where Jennifer lives.

 

Before the henhouse doors are latched at night, a count usually finds all seventeen hens where they are supposed to be. Last night the count was one short. Looked around, counted again, looked some more, and even looked in the workshop thinking that maybe one had been locked in there accidentally. Felt really bad about losing a hen and not even knowing what had happened to her. This morning had reason to open the workshop door, and out swept a very disgusted little red hen. If she had even clucked last night when the door was opened for a check, she would have slept with the rest of the flock. At least she is not “missing in action” today!

 

Last year a thing to siphon fluids came home from Harbor Freight or some such place. Needed to remove the gasoline from the zero-turn mower last year, but it did not get done. Put the trickle battery charger on the mower and think it is about charged up, but need to go to “Tami’s” to get the right kind of gasoline for it. Really had not planned to try to mow at all by myself, but may do some just to be sure the mower still works. A person would think that taking care and uncluttering the inside of the house would be enough for an old woman to do to keep her happy, but somehow the outside work is SO much more appealing!

 

Another grandchild turns 25 this Saturday! Then the next one is in June (20^th) –nineteen-years-old and another in July (23)—turns 21 this year! The next event will be in late July or sometime in August. Life certainly does move on!

 

Sounds like my drier has about thrown my sneaker around long enough to have them dry-ish. The noise is certainly irritating enough!

 

Galatians 3:29 tells us that if we be Christ’s, then we are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. That was my first realization that one did not have to be Jewish to fit into that family. How’s THAT for an adoption!!

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.