It is finished...

Well...Well...Well... it is finished!!! Paul went back to court November 19th to let the judge know that the evicities had left a deck behind. The judge gave them 10 more days to remove it. And on Sunday...December 1, we finally got to burn the deck. Never mind that the dude that was suppose to come get it delayed, missed the first and second deadline, and finally the deck became legally ours as of November  the 29th. And dude still wanted it, so we gave him 2 more days, Saturday morning, or Sunday morning, and he was a no show. So at 10 am Sunday, December 1, papa burnt the deck. IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL THING!!!

I would love to share the photo, but alas... I do not know how to post it on my blog. Sorry. It is still a BEAUTIFUL THING!!!

Update... I learned how to upload photos... hee hee hee

Black Friday is almost here

Well... Papa did the research, checked the adds, and has our shopping day planned. I have been wanting a flat screen TV for the bedroom... a shop vac for the mess around the wood stove... a WiFi printer for my laptop... and I think he wants TOOLS!!!

I do work at Weight Watchers in the morning, so I can't pull an all nighter... but at 6 pm I need to be at Walmart for my TV, printer, and shop vac.

Today and tomorrow are all that is left of the deadline to remove that ratty old falling apart deck from our property. Papa got a text last night from the dude that is supposed to come get it asking permission to get it today. So last night papa tells dude to be here early in the morning while the ground is still frozen. Well... dude is still a no show... and now it is time to get on with the rest of our day. OH WELL...

Boy oh boy it's cold outside.

The wood is split, the wood stove is burning, the house is cozy... I am right where I wanna be... Only trouble is, I will have to be leaving later on today. Gunna help papa load up our old 5 ton truck and haul it off to the scrap yard. Freedom Metals in Elizabethtown is pay $205 per ton. We need BLACK FRIDAY money. hee hee hee . I am just not looking forward to going out in the cold.

Leland has his heat lamp running 24/7 now. It is to cold, even during the day, for him to be without his heat lamp. I will end up having to put a heating element in his water dish to keep the water from freezing. He sometimes drinks out of the pond, but it will eventually freeze over.

Things around here are just about back to normal. It is kinda weird to come home and find out that no one has stolen anything from us. Weird, I tell ya.

Counting today... 3 more days to THE DECK BURNING. We might wait and burn it Saturday.

Busy weekend...and cold!!!

Paul and I spent all day yesterday out in the ministry. We were working with an inactive one... Once that person stopped for the day...on we went. Time is of the essence. I am grateful that we were working country territory so that we had a little vehicle time inbeween houses...burrrrrr... that wind was cold.

The nice thing about just Paul and I in the car group is to be able to talk about things, our lives, our plans, stuff we need to catch up on... blah blah blah. We determined that our first order of business is to finish loading up and hauling to the scrap yard all remaining junk. After that, the work of getting his shop back in order... Most of his tools for the shop had to be moved out and stored at Friends' places to keep 'family' from stealing it or damaging it.

6 more days till THE DECK BURNING

Work instead of play.

I am filling in for a co-worker who has an ill elderly father. I turned down a trip to NY to do this. I love NY. I love NYC... I could live there. I decided, whilst on our anniversary trip to Brooklyn, that there are three things I learned about NYC.

1. Don't worry about bumping into people when walking, they're used to it.
2. Drive like you meant it.
3. I would fit right in...those people are CRAZY.

hee hee hee... IJS

7 more days till the DECK BURNING