Today I actually made progress! My Christmas cards are now done. The tree Vernon and the boys cut for me yesterday is 80% decorated. A few more Christmas decorations are up. I actually was well prepared for all my students and classes today!!! The dogs got a few more bales of straw around their houses…
Category: Projects
An Audience
Well, we had to let the kids go back to their respective “homes” today. Three went back to Laramie (cousin Caleb included) and one to Kaycee. We cleaned up some garbage at the Mills place, doctored the sick calf, loaded up Caleb’s snowmachine into his pickup, ate some pitiful lunch and then they left. It…
Different Directions
These days, now that the kids are really adults, when they are home, we all can go different directions and accomplish a great deal. Early early this morning, Daniel and Victoria accompanied their grandfather to a bull sale in Billings, Montana. That entails a four hour drive…a walkthrough of the bulls (which, of course, we’ve…
So Tired
I am SO TIRED… we worked all day up at the Mills place tearing out walls, doing electrical, figuring out stuff on the fly. Do I want the outlets here or here? Do you want the stove to be here? How tall is the bar going to be? How tall is the back of the…
It’s Gone!
Remember just a little while ago, when I talked of Beginnings? We have been discussing the remodel of the kitchen at the Mills place. Nothing too pressing… just debating cabinets, and placement of appliances, and some minor stuff. Well, the boys came home from Laramie on Monday evening. I spent yesterday in Worland – a little…
Beginnings
I am, with some trepidation, beginning a new project. A couple of years ago, we bought some property from the neighbors which included the main ranch house and all outbuildings and some amazing hay fields. This is a setting easily described as the “Prettiest Place in the Country”. My father-in-law’s best friend lived here. He…