Thursday’s Progress
Or, a picture is worth a thousand words:
I’m back!!!!
Sorry about the delay in the updates. Last Friday I flew back to Texas for a beach weekend and to take care of a little work. I was staying at a beach house at San Luis Pass with my dear friend Kathy and her daughter, when the cell phones started ringing – warning us about […]
Pass the Kool-Aid, please
Yesterday, Dave and I went to see Barack Obama. He came to Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla – about 20 miles from Cuba. There were 1200 people there. It was hot and crowded, but very well organized and they were passing out free water. Obama was very relaxed and well spoken. He […]
Christina’s new shoes
They’re pouring the floor on Tuesday, so that will be the next house photo. Yesterday, I went shopping with Ruth Ann (Gary’s sis) and her granddaughter, Christina. Christina’s 16, so as you can imagine, she’s the only one who bought anything interesting – these shoes. She was so exctied about the shoes that I told her […]
Work Hurk
Hurk? Hurk? What’s Hurk? I don’t know, but it must be better than work. – Shel Silverstein Fortunately, Shel Silverstein (may he rest in peace) isn’t building our house. In the past two days, Kevin fixed our road, buried our electric line, filled in the rocks and dirt around the basement, and the plumber plumbed the plumbing in the foundation. […]
Local Charm
No, this is not about the gone but not forgotten Telephone Road bar, but real Leasburg local charm. Today, Dave and I went to Onondaga cave, at Onondaga Cave state park. (In case you haven’t been to one yet, Missouri state parks are very nice to compared to state parks in other, uh, unnamed states.) The […]
Hello Walls
The forms are gone. Yea! And there’s some other stuff lying around to. I don’t know what it’s for. I climbed up halfway up the deer stand to get a photo of the basement walls. I would have climbed all the way up, but it was too scary. Really. I’m not a big fan of […]