The New Shed

The new shed is nearly finished. All that it needs now is: the roof cap to be completed, the electrical work done, and the large, overhead doors to be installed. The cement work in the shop/garage is finished, and Don is already making plans as to what tool goes where. I know that he will like his workshop once he has things in place and he can actually work in there.

This empty space is where the shed is now.

Holy Cow! Is it Noah's Ark?

Yes! I think it is Noah's Ark! It even looks like it from the inside!!!

Taken near the barn, facing the shed. This is where the tractor and Don's vast assortment of vehicles will drive in.

Taken from the back of the house, looking directly at Don's workshop/garage. This picture was taken before the cement was poured.

Don's workshop floor being poured.

Every crew that has come out to our place to work on this shed has been simply amazing. From the truck driver who delivered the rafters, to the 3 guys who built the frame and screwed in all those hundreds of screws, to the cement crew...they have all been courteous, very efficient with their time...I cannot say enough about them. And I do think that Don agrees. Both of us would highly recommend RAM BUILDERS for your next building project. They are THE BEST that money can buy!

The Fugitive

Look closely at this face, folks. It might be the next one you see on a milk carton.

This dangerous criminal escaped imprisonment a few days ago, along with her ‘sister', Heidi. After 3 ½ hours of searching in vain and visiting all the neighbors in a 4-mile radius. a neighbor called and said that the two culprits were spotted cavorting on the highway 3 ½ miles south of the farm. I got in my truck and raced down there, and sure enough, they were play fighting in the middle of the highway, while trucks slammed on their brakes and went around them. They were oblivious to the fact that they may well have been creamed. Since creamed German Shepherd is not on the future menu around here, we have felt it best that we invest in a shock collar to put a little fear of God into the both of them. As a matter of fact, last week when they got loose they ran over to the Amo church and were discovered playing in the empty parking lot. Apparently, they did not get religion that time, either. Hence, the needed shock-treatment.

Who, me? You talkin' bout ME? I'm INNOCENT, I swear to you!

This dangerous criminal (aka: Gretchen) has also been known to eat toilet seats.

My friends, THIS is what guilt really looks like.

Keep on the lookout for future sightings of this detainee She may be seen in a neighborhood near you. Hopefully not!

*Truthfully, I will not enjoy using the collar on my baby, but it is a last resort and it may be a means of saving her life in the long run. This time, the Sheriff was involved. Thankfully, he was nice about it. She becomes 'deaf' when she bolts out the door, and is gone down the highway in a flash. I will try to show her the boundries of the yard (again), and what can and will happen if/when she runs out of bounds again. :(

This n' That

Well, it certainly has been a long time since I was able to add to my blog! I have been having a GIANT hassle with my Sony Cyber-shot camera, and it has taken since August 27th to get it all figured out. I sent it to Sony twice, and the ‘repairs’ cost me $91.00, which I do not have (to spend in that manner). My bff Connie reformatted my memory-stick on her computer. And it still did not work, so I brought it over here to my computer and reformatted it –two more times- and the camera still said the stick was ‘corrupted.’ Hmmm. Well, after fighting with Sony and Precision Camera Repair all this time, I got on the Sony website, and read the instruction booklet (which I do not physically own) online and figured out how to format my memory stick by using the camera, itself. And Viola! The stupid thing now works! Now, I DID do all of this before sending it in the first time, so I am inclined to believe that there really was a circuit board problem initially, as I hate to think that my $91.00 and my precious time were in vain. So if you ever hear of anyone having an Error C:13:01 on their Sony camera, have them call me FIRST, before they go and send the thing out to Sony!

Meanwhile, our shed is finally going up! Hooray, hooray. I might actually be able to stop paying all that money on storage up in Shakopee! I am sure that they will miss me over at Canterbury Storage. They know my credit number by heart, bless them anyway. The shed will be 40x112. Here is what has been done, so far.

Last week, I took some Community Ed. Classes in Windom. I am learning the Norwegian art of Rosemalling. It is very intricate, precise, and time consuming. And frustrating. The idea is to load only half of your teeny tiny paintbrush, and allow other colors to gently blend in, allowing them to be somewhat opaque. If I am ever able to grasp the control of my loading and my brush movements, it should be more pleasurable. Right now, it is something akin to plucking the leg-hairs off a gnat.

And then my bff Connie was roped into teaching a mitten-knitting class, so I felt sorry for her and went along. :) She was teaching the 4-needle knitting technique, which ends up every once in awhile using 5 knitting needles all at the same time. Connie, why isn’t it called 5-needle knitting???

So that’s it for now. I will send more pictures of the shed as it is being built over this next week. They tell me that the roof will be on by Tuesday!!!