OK, so odd things interest me

BOY! this site is slow and sluggish this evening. I just about fell asleep waiting on it to load...oh yeah, id that earlier this week. Chair fell over backwards on my trash can, cut and bruised my hand, woke Sue up!

Anyway, here are qa couple shots of a big anthill I found in Gramp's yard.


It is about 3" high and 3" across.
Never saw any ants, though.

Did see some birds this week. Those white spots are long-legged white cranes setting in the trees.

This is about 600 feet away, which is about as close as I can get to them.

Got Lyman's pump house replaced this week
We have almost caught up with the dry soybeans. Becky has some photos on her web site.

Harvest has finally started

Today was the start of what promises to be a long fall. We started milo harvest. Last year we had been done for a couple weeks. Neighbors a mile north cut milo a couple days ago. Green bean harvest is supposed to start first of the week.

Isn't that pretty?

Just as a reminder, here is how the combine looked last year around this time...

Itty bitty school bus

Today was a momentous day. My grandson rode the school bus home. I know, sounds like an over enthusiastic grandpa. There is a lot more to the story.
David was born way too early. Like 1 pound 3 ounces earlyEverything has been a challenge for David. From eating (he still has a G-tube) to muscle coordination, which affects walking and talking. He bounces from being fearless to petrified by the feel of a new texture. In most social situations he is the little kid. Last year Mom took him to pre-school every day and went back and picked him up. And she did the same this year until today. Today she let him ride the Pre-school bus home. I guess David had a blast. Mom didn't meltdown, but came close. David enjoyed it so much he had to call Grandma and tell her about it.
Not that she understood what he said.

So much to talk about...

So much to talk about ... so little time. It's been a bit hectic recently. That is probably self-inflicted. We finished roofing the crib, We took down the car port and Lyman's irrigator pump house. I went to the dentist twice in less than a week (second time got in in 4 hours), cleaned wheat. And that is just up to Wednesday!

I mentioned the roof. Isn't this pretty?


The crib roof has leaked ever since we moved here. Aman and I worked on it years ago ... I think it was before he and Becky were married. Joe Riggs worked on it. I worked on it again. Always had a leak. This spring the wind damaged a major portion of it and insurance paid for some repairs, so we decided to re-roof the entire south side. We figured 2 - 2 1/2 days of work. We had to rip off the lower roof clear to the rafters and deck part of it. It took us over a week. Now, we are not professionals, and usually didn't get on the roof after late morning because it go too hot and risked damaging the shingles. But it was a lot longer than our schedules allowed. So that is all done but the cleanup.

We then took down Lyman's irrigator pump house
He is putting up a metal carport structure. It is a lot bigger than he needs, but it is what he wants.

Then we started on our carport. It was here when we moved here. Over the last year or so it has gotten "wobbly". Then we noticed the south west corner was lower than the rest of the structure. And it was more "wobbly" ... you could push on a post and shake the whole thing. We did a bit of estimating what it would cost to repair the structure. If the posts had not been surrounded with concrete it would not have been so difficult. By the time we built supporting walls and re-roofed it it made more sense to replace it. We ordered a new metal carport when we ordered Lyman's new pump house. Which means this one had to go. We stripped the aluminum siding off, cut a couple middle posts, and gave it a shove.


If you look closely I put red circles around the bottom of the posts on this side. It shows how badly the posts were rotted off.
"Course, now we have to clean this up too. Should be a roll-off dumpster here this morning.

Oh, I mentioned the dentist. I went last Tuesday for my semi-annual cleaning and checkup. No problem. A few days later Istarted to notice a bit of discomfort on the right side. Monday night it was bad enough I couldn't sleep Tuesday morning I gave up and called the dentist's office. I got in a 230, they looked. poked, prodded, took an X-ray, made me an appointment with the edontics doctor who did my root canal in '02 and gave me a prescription for penicillin. They aren't sure what the problem is, but penicillin and ibuprofen seem to be controlling it.

Aman and I cleaned wheat yesterday. Without Dad. That is a lot more significant than it sounds. The seed cleaner is dad's baby. This is the first time it has ever been used he was not the one running it. He was not involved at all. Once we got done and I sat and thought about it ... well, it was a bit difficult.

Anyway, better run.

About done roofing

With any luck we will finish the corn crib roof today. It is late May, correct? That was when I hoped to be done with it. Oh well, we did 3 roofs at dad's and this one. This one became a much bigger job than we anticipated. Now all I have to do is pick up all the ... I hesitate to use the word trash. Construction residue?

I'll try and post a photo later. Off to climb on the roof.