Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
stain
I find myself missing this time I spend here,Things are progressing well with the log work. I like the stain. Thats one decision down. Now I have to decide the log ends will post more later have a day in front of me.
Friday, April 23, 2010
should I change my blog
So what can I write about that might interest the general public? Some thing perhaps besides building a log home although I like the idea of having this on going journal of our own progress on the log home but the truth is it even bores me some,when it comes to rereading it.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
what no one knows
I guess some how I seem to have the time to be a prolific writer. Now I know that's a crock but, the folks I know don't seem to get around much anymore.
Its so easy to get caught up in the bull that goes on, you know we all go there, even if it is by accident or morbid curio or perhaps innocence? But facebook and e-mails and blogs, cell phones etc. etc. and here is me thinking wow this is great, no more isolation, maybe a network of creative beings and they are, I know them but...
but, it's a virtual reality. So maybe its me with out a life??
I don't know, doesn't feel that way. But it does feel like no one can read and like no one is interested in me enough to go looking for a blog about my life, and ya I am talking about the people I know.Maybe what I am saying is uninteresting, no it's more like overload.So much goes on, on the Internet that unless you are way bad, its boring.Like I said no one truly reads unless its a chosen thing, but to read just to read something well...........
for now
Its so easy to get caught up in the bull that goes on, you know we all go there, even if it is by accident or morbid curio or perhaps innocence? But facebook and e-mails and blogs, cell phones etc. etc. and here is me thinking wow this is great, no more isolation, maybe a network of creative beings and they are, I know them but...
but, it's a virtual reality. So maybe its me with out a life??
I don't know, doesn't feel that way. But it does feel like no one can read and like no one is interested in me enough to go looking for a blog about my life, and ya I am talking about the people I know.Maybe what I am saying is uninteresting, no it's more like overload.So much goes on, on the Internet that unless you are way bad, its boring.Like I said no one truly reads unless its a chosen thing, but to read just to read something well...........
for now
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
WHERE THERES SMOKE THERES FIRE
Well it seems that my dog has hip dysplasia, that is a serious bummer.I have decided to let it ride for a while and see how its going to work out. I know that I want newfoundland dogs now anyway and that I want to try to get one that has her hips tested at like six weeks which I guess they can do. She is my dog, but i can not stand the idea of her hurting, breaks my heart.So she has been big on my mind lately.
I could write a couple e-mails and see how things are looking I guess.
I do not feel myself here lately and I am not to sure why? I feel a little set back on the house? Scared of it all. Yes I am scared of it. It is my design so what happens if it's not a good one? I can not help but step back and be a little more reserved because Andy has such a slow approach to things that it contradicts my enthusiasm.I just seem to feel dis con bobble ated!!!!whew.
I feel distant,humm. All this hurry up and wait. No real decisions being made? Tile, metal roof,driveways, water, you can go over it fifty times with Andy and make a decision with him get up the next morning and he goes back to square one all over again,. Me I say cut to the chase, right or wrong, let her rain. We are about 50/50. Pretty even.I know I respect Andy tremendously.Much as I hate to admit it.Ha Ha.
This is all part of the flippen process and for a poor little Irish bitch with more guts than glory, it gets a bit, shall I say boring? How the hell can that be?
Here I am building a dream house that I designed with a great guy and a picture perfect family, but just ain't no smoke and magic baby. Thats how. I know it too. Its so perfect its boring. Oh shit I am busting a gut at myself. Ha flipping Ha Ha. I can just hear my mom she'd be the first one all over this. In other words you can take the girl out of the engerbretson but you can't take the engerbretson out of the girl. I know what I am saying it just don't make any sense to me either.Jokes, no it does, there just ain't no changing it. I am more than cool with it though and I realise it's an inside job. I can create my way to all the smoke and magic I need.And in the end it will be the best smoke and magic of all.And I could not do it with out Andy being methodical.So bless his heart. Ever notice how I like the word, or non word "ain't" so much,yep she is one of my favorites.
I could write a couple e-mails and see how things are looking I guess.
I do not feel myself here lately and I am not to sure why? I feel a little set back on the house? Scared of it all. Yes I am scared of it. It is my design so what happens if it's not a good one? I can not help but step back and be a little more reserved because Andy has such a slow approach to things that it contradicts my enthusiasm.I just seem to feel dis con bobble ated!!!!whew.
I feel distant,humm. All this hurry up and wait. No real decisions being made? Tile, metal roof,driveways, water, you can go over it fifty times with Andy and make a decision with him get up the next morning and he goes back to square one all over again,. Me I say cut to the chase, right or wrong, let her rain. We are about 50/50. Pretty even.I know I respect Andy tremendously.Much as I hate to admit it.Ha Ha.
This is all part of the flippen process and for a poor little Irish bitch with more guts than glory, it gets a bit, shall I say boring? How the hell can that be?
Here I am building a dream house that I designed with a great guy and a picture perfect family, but just ain't no smoke and magic baby. Thats how. I know it too. Its so perfect its boring. Oh shit I am busting a gut at myself. Ha flipping Ha Ha. I can just hear my mom she'd be the first one all over this. In other words you can take the girl out of the engerbretson but you can't take the engerbretson out of the girl. I know what I am saying it just don't make any sense to me either.Jokes, no it does, there just ain't no changing it. I am more than cool with it though and I realise it's an inside job. I can create my way to all the smoke and magic I need.And in the end it will be the best smoke and magic of all.And I could not do it with out Andy being methodical.So bless his heart. Ever notice how I like the word, or non word "ain't" so much,yep she is one of my favorites.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
boys believe in magic
well whats on my mind? Love, young love. That feeling all bunched up inside of you. The one you don't understand that smothers you like a sultry thunderstorm when all you want is rain. That tiny taste of sweet when you suck the nectar out of a flower.
When else have you had that. That kind of intense passion, just by a mere conversation. His shirt. His walk. His laugh, his dimples that destroy you.First love..Love's.The sweetness of a young girl. I was that young girl once,I am talking about fourteen, fifteen years old. Just to be around the boys,Tim,Jay,Jeff I never did anything sexual with any of them. Jeff kissed me but They all loved me ... they really loved me. They worshiped me to the point they could never touch me.I was so young and innocent.I trusted them with all my heart. But now thirty five years later looking back, I miss it all.I miss them the way they were.Men now seem so jaded, but boys, they still believe in magic.I will always love them for that and I will always be that girl to them.
When else have you had that. That kind of intense passion, just by a mere conversation. His shirt. His walk. His laugh, his dimples that destroy you.First love..Love's.The sweetness of a young girl. I was that young girl once,I am talking about fourteen, fifteen years old. Just to be around the boys,Tim,Jay,Jeff I never did anything sexual with any of them. Jeff kissed me but They all loved me ... they really loved me. They worshiped me to the point they could never touch me.I was so young and innocent.I trusted them with all my heart. But now thirty five years later looking back, I miss it all.I miss them the way they were.Men now seem so jaded, but boys, they still believe in magic.I will always love them for that and I will always be that girl to them.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Newfie,my girl
Kind of a rough day here, My Newfoundland puppy fell out of the back of a truck at the ranch. She hurt her hind leg somehow. I realised in one instant how much my dog meant to me. The world. She is my partner and my baby. Man she is a good dog. Hands down the best dog I have ever had.So this morning I am on my way to a vet.I ll take her in to my old Vet in Missoula.He has always been so good to me and mine. Poor baby she rides so good in the back and all the dogs at the ranch ride on and in the pickups. I worried about that with her but she just rode perfect for the last couple weeks. Yesterday I made the mistake of talking tho her out my window, she immediately tried to come to me and got up on the side of the bed of the truck and lost her balance started over head first,then her hind in swapped and she hit on her left hip and hind leg first. I ran to her and she ran to me, but she had hit hard enough to cause her to have a bowel movement, and she was quite dazed. She just wanted me. We took her to the creek and bathed her off and she spent the rest of the day laying down,she can't put any weight on the leg and she cry's when she tries to stand.For now on my way to the vet.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Carols place in heaven
err that t's me off because I just wrote a great blog and the Internet connection failed.
I was talking about staying home for a day feels mighty fine,but I will have to leave this evening for the ranch as we will be doing the cows tomorrow. We used to brand until about three years ago, but now I don't know what we call it, its not
branding.I kinda miss the old way of branding it was more of a day, and the calf's seem to think so to, with all the excitement they were less aware somehow. What do I know, I am the last person who should say anything, I know to little and feel to much.I do know I'll miss my bed.
Not feeling to well, inner ear issues.Dizzy.Had a massage for free yesterday while Bobbie got her hair cut off. It was torture. The gal told me to scream and swear and to keep breathing.I did all three and then some.I told her if I see you accidentally in the grocery store I am just going to start running.Hope I never piss her off, she could make you talk.wow
Bobbie got her hair cut off for the Navy yesterday and donated it to locks of love. She took off about 18 inch's. It looks good. She had her first DEP meeting yesterday.
Yesterday I went and looked at Carol's house, oh my god it is gorgeous and done in kind of a south western style, open beams ,a view to die for, warm rich colors, I really like her a lot and she has the most admirable taste, she is good!
But suddenly I was totally in doubt of what I was doing, even the logs seemed less than they are.Well we will manage I think, but its hell to be so eclectic you have no sense of self. I love everything except what I don't.Victorian styles and flowery cluttered spaces make me feel ill.Honestly
I was talking about staying home for a day feels mighty fine,but I will have to leave this evening for the ranch as we will be doing the cows tomorrow. We used to brand until about three years ago, but now I don't know what we call it, its not
branding.I kinda miss the old way of branding it was more of a day, and the calf's seem to think so to, with all the excitement they were less aware somehow. What do I know, I am the last person who should say anything, I know to little and feel to much.I do know I'll miss my bed.
Not feeling to well, inner ear issues.Dizzy.Had a massage for free yesterday while Bobbie got her hair cut off. It was torture. The gal told me to scream and swear and to keep breathing.I did all three and then some.I told her if I see you accidentally in the grocery store I am just going to start running.Hope I never piss her off, she could make you talk.wow
Bobbie got her hair cut off for the Navy yesterday and donated it to locks of love. She took off about 18 inch's. It looks good. She had her first DEP meeting yesterday.
Yesterday I went and looked at Carol's house, oh my god it is gorgeous and done in kind of a south western style, open beams ,a view to die for, warm rich colors, I really like her a lot and she has the most admirable taste, she is good!
But suddenly I was totally in doubt of what I was doing, even the logs seemed less than they are.Well we will manage I think, but its hell to be so eclectic you have no sense of self. I love everything except what I don't.Victorian styles and flowery cluttered spaces make me feel ill.Honestly
Thursday, April 15, 2010
the littlest one
For now this is the closest thing to a resent picture I have of
boobys hair, I will try to get some pictures today and post them later if
I can. We were having a Christmas party at D.A. lodge it was great and
she was purty.
A WHOLE YEAR!!!!!
I am here, in a dozen places, put together with tape.
I have been reading some of my Bella, she is a gal I follow her blog.She blows me away with her writing.She's pretty good.I find myself wishing I had lots of time to be on this computer every day and I don't. I have kids, a house,husband,father,and an adult daughter,who takes more time than any one:D But life gets in the way I still manage to spend a lot of time here too.
Yesterday I went to the ranch,put out a spread and Andy and I had Shonna and Jay come down and we sat and went over house things for hours, then we went up on the site and the guys messed around with a laser thingy and it was way cool, I like Shonna a lot,she has a wonderful laugh. O.K. so the bomb that I got last night was that its going to take a year to build this house,once we get the foundation started.
I knew that.
Ya I knew that.
I did. I just forgot.
Somebody said six months and that stuck, all my reading told me it would take a year at least, it always takes longer with log. I am just preying we can afford to build some thing that is going to take a year to build. Oh shit!!!!
Not only that, I have strong feelings about this because of my Dad. He is eighty six and doing o.k. but of all of us he has pushed this the most, he has wanted to move to the ranch,"get the hell out of this country." He is so excited its going to be
log, and he is completely blown away by my design of the house and everyday he just keeps saying I just want to get down there and see this happen, when the hell is this thing gonna get started. I worry about him. I want him to live in our new house.
He has had a couple real close calls health wise in the last couple years.
Then on top of all of that is the fact that he lives next to me in an old shack that only has wood heat, and when its forty below zero here, he sits in an kitchen chair in front of the stove all night long to stay warm, feeding it pieces of wood all night. He has nothing there, his table and his books. He has his little dog,
Dowbie,him and mom were together fifty six years and he says they never quit having a honey moon, and boy is he right. True love. I ve only seen one other couple who were even close and that was Jack and Betty Myles.But Dad, I don't want him to spend
another winter alone in that house. We can't all live in here because he would
not be happy here. And most of all I want him to be happy. I think if we can
get away with it, we can finish the basement and move into it for the next
winter.It is quite a bit bigger than the house I now live in, all by itself.
That way the kids can start school in the new school.We don't have to worry about
wood, snow,bad roads and no husband or Dad for the kids.Or I suppose we could try
to find a place to rent when school gets out?? So yes we shall have to see.
I have the opportunity to go work out today, at nine o clock,with Dad and Booby.
I am all over that. uh huh
Then we take Miss Booby in and she is going to get her butt length hair which is
very thick and luxurious cut all off to above her chin for the Navy. She is doing it for locks of love. After that she has a DEP meeting with the Navy. So the baby's
have early out, we will take them with us and maybe Grampa if he wants to go.
I know that its all going to be expensive for me today, yikes. I have to find
a way to cut back on the money around here. We will make due, just have to
curb a little of the spending that's all.
for the moment i's done.......
I have been reading some of my Bella, she is a gal I follow her blog.She blows me away with her writing.She's pretty good.I find myself wishing I had lots of time to be on this computer every day and I don't. I have kids, a house,husband,father,and an adult daughter,who takes more time than any one:D But life gets in the way I still manage to spend a lot of time here too.
Yesterday I went to the ranch,put out a spread and Andy and I had Shonna and Jay come down and we sat and went over house things for hours, then we went up on the site and the guys messed around with a laser thingy and it was way cool, I like Shonna a lot,she has a wonderful laugh. O.K. so the bomb that I got last night was that its going to take a year to build this house,once we get the foundation started.
I knew that.
Ya I knew that.
I did. I just forgot.
Somebody said six months and that stuck, all my reading told me it would take a year at least, it always takes longer with log. I am just preying we can afford to build some thing that is going to take a year to build. Oh shit!!!!
Not only that, I have strong feelings about this because of my Dad. He is eighty six and doing o.k. but of all of us he has pushed this the most, he has wanted to move to the ranch,"get the hell out of this country." He is so excited its going to be
log, and he is completely blown away by my design of the house and everyday he just keeps saying I just want to get down there and see this happen, when the hell is this thing gonna get started. I worry about him. I want him to live in our new house.
He has had a couple real close calls health wise in the last couple years.
Then on top of all of that is the fact that he lives next to me in an old shack that only has wood heat, and when its forty below zero here, he sits in an kitchen chair in front of the stove all night long to stay warm, feeding it pieces of wood all night. He has nothing there, his table and his books. He has his little dog,
Dowbie,him and mom were together fifty six years and he says they never quit having a honey moon, and boy is he right. True love. I ve only seen one other couple who were even close and that was Jack and Betty Myles.But Dad, I don't want him to spend
another winter alone in that house. We can't all live in here because he would
not be happy here. And most of all I want him to be happy. I think if we can
get away with it, we can finish the basement and move into it for the next
winter.It is quite a bit bigger than the house I now live in, all by itself.
That way the kids can start school in the new school.We don't have to worry about
wood, snow,bad roads and no husband or Dad for the kids.Or I suppose we could try
to find a place to rent when school gets out?? So yes we shall have to see.
I have the opportunity to go work out today, at nine o clock,with Dad and Booby.
I am all over that. uh huh
Then we take Miss Booby in and she is going to get her butt length hair which is
very thick and luxurious cut all off to above her chin for the Navy. She is doing it for locks of love. After that she has a DEP meeting with the Navy. So the baby's
have early out, we will take them with us and maybe Grampa if he wants to go.
I know that its all going to be expensive for me today, yikes. I have to find
a way to cut back on the money around here. We will make due, just have to
curb a little of the spending that's all.
for the moment i's done.......
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Thats my girl
Just wanted to say that Bobbie Sue is keeping this thing afloat all by herself out of pure unselfish love, that is the sweetest thing I had happen to me in a long time.You are awfull special my littlest,xoxo
thanks
me
thanks
me
DOES ANYBODY KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HEATED FLOORS?
That is a thought,my feet are freezing right now. Does anybody out there know
anything about heated floors? I am putting heated floors in my house,with Jip Crete?? But what about pro's and con's, what about boilers? Also Lincoln windows any good or bad stories?? Its hard to run down to the local hard ware store and look at a myriad selection of lumber products and make choices and selections on things you really know very little about,and you sales rep does not necessarily know anymore than you do about it, but he won't let you know this.
anything about heated floors? I am putting heated floors in my house,with Jip Crete?? But what about pro's and con's, what about boilers? Also Lincoln windows any good or bad stories?? Its hard to run down to the local hard ware store and look at a myriad selection of lumber products and make choices and selections on things you really know very little about,and you sales rep does not necessarily know anymore than you do about it, but he won't let you know this.
I write poetry, and I am on a diet, maybe those things would interest people more than a fifty year old woman building a log cabin? You know its been quite a journey to get here and in so many ways we all seem to come full circle in life. I heard once the meaning of success was when the young man grew up and got enough money to leave the family farm, go out and make enough money to buy a family farm of his own. No what I mean Jean??
Kind of how its worked for me. I lived in a few log cabins in my life.Most of them you could put in the mud room of this house, all of them you could look out the walls of, and all of them tough as it was,were home. Would I go back,if it wouldn't change anything hell ya, I miss my mom. You carry it inside of you the whole time and its like a puzzle you have to put together before you know that the picture is the one you started with.
We didn't have electricity or running water, and it was at a time in this country when that was not the norm. I grew up on venison and elk meat, brook trout and hand me down clothes,it wasn't all bad I loved most of it. I still live that way as much as I can, but I have it much easier than my folks did then.
Kind of how its worked for me. I lived in a few log cabins in my life.Most of them you could put in the mud room of this house, all of them you could look out the walls of, and all of them tough as it was,were home. Would I go back,if it wouldn't change anything hell ya, I miss my mom. You carry it inside of you the whole time and its like a puzzle you have to put together before you know that the picture is the one you started with.
We didn't have electricity or running water, and it was at a time in this country when that was not the norm. I grew up on venison and elk meat, brook trout and hand me down clothes,it wasn't all bad I loved most of it. I still live that way as much as I can, but I have it much easier than my folks did then.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
I love this, not sure who wrote it?
The strength of a man isn't in the deep tone of his voice. It's in the gentle words he whispers... The strength of a man isn't in how respected he is at work. It's in how respected he is at home.....The strength of a man isn't in how hard he hits. It's in how tender he touches... The strength of a man isn't in the weight he can lift. It's in the burdens he can carry.
Kathy
yea!! My friend Kathy has figuared this blog and the comment issue out. I was getting a little frustrated and going to quit. I know that this will be one of the only ways I stay in touch with my friends for a while.I have been feeling a little neglected you might say. Yea Kathy.
Monday morning rail
I don't drink much coffee, but I sure do love that first cup in the morning.
Papa Andy and I spent Sunday up on the mountain in the wind and the snow and the wet, from early until dark. We were trying to stake out the dimensions of the house. The site is quite sharply sloped to a flatter spot then drops dramatically. Anyway
all kinds of issues with slope and position of the house. We were having so much fun, albeit frustrated fun, but fun that as under dressed as I was all I could do was shiver shake and keep moving, hoping beyond hope I was burning calories.
The kids hung in there for a while then headed to grandma, huckleberry pie and the television.(Which is quite a draw to them as we do not have one.)
I know the main footprint looks small up there and it's a little scary but only because the living room is smaller than mine now, which is tight, and grandmas too, which she wishes was bigger. Oh well small I can handle, I ve done small, its the big that spooks me. The house is 5684 square feet total. I have lived in every thing from a chicken coop when we were kids to multi million dollar homes but none this large. I did design this place and in my own defense I must say that there is six of us here and sometimes three or four more so with that in mind and money always an issue, I made the main floor 2000 feet with a loft of 1600 square feet all under the eves, not a second story, so you will be able to stand up only according to the pitch of the roof. But Papa insists on a basement which puts me over the top. So be it.
The baby's are off to school, we have exercise this a.m..We being Grampa and I and Booby sue. Its great how well she is doing. When she first started doing it with us about nine months ago, oh my word if looks could kill. Yikes! Now she is starting to get cut and runs like the wind, feels great looks so much better, total turn around. If she can just stay focused she is formidable, the Navy is going to love her. I will miss her.
I sure enjoy this part of my day. I am trying to get up earlier so that it can last longer but, I need light and yes I turn them on but daylight is important to my wake up skills. 6;30 is fine, six to dark.Tucker is the same as me,Gracie is pretty good at being an early riser at the ranch. The cows and sheep are what she wants to see. At 4:30 5:00.humm That's cool,but.....I could if I had too or if I was more interested for some reason. Of course I would if they had to depend upon me, but as it stands there is already at least five folks out there feeding them. When I start my day the only chance I get to set down is when I do this, until I fall into bed at night.So its not like I don't pull my weight and everyone Else's too, I do and I know I do. Well tis time to sweat,ugg... so must away ere break a day to seek our long forgotten gold..........to quote an old friend of mine.
Papa Andy and I spent Sunday up on the mountain in the wind and the snow and the wet, from early until dark. We were trying to stake out the dimensions of the house. The site is quite sharply sloped to a flatter spot then drops dramatically. Anyway
all kinds of issues with slope and position of the house. We were having so much fun, albeit frustrated fun, but fun that as under dressed as I was all I could do was shiver shake and keep moving, hoping beyond hope I was burning calories.
The kids hung in there for a while then headed to grandma, huckleberry pie and the television.(Which is quite a draw to them as we do not have one.)
I know the main footprint looks small up there and it's a little scary but only because the living room is smaller than mine now, which is tight, and grandmas too, which she wishes was bigger. Oh well small I can handle, I ve done small, its the big that spooks me. The house is 5684 square feet total. I have lived in every thing from a chicken coop when we were kids to multi million dollar homes but none this large. I did design this place and in my own defense I must say that there is six of us here and sometimes three or four more so with that in mind and money always an issue, I made the main floor 2000 feet with a loft of 1600 square feet all under the eves, not a second story, so you will be able to stand up only according to the pitch of the roof. But Papa insists on a basement which puts me over the top. So be it.
The baby's are off to school, we have exercise this a.m..We being Grampa and I and Booby sue. Its great how well she is doing. When she first started doing it with us about nine months ago, oh my word if looks could kill. Yikes! Now she is starting to get cut and runs like the wind, feels great looks so much better, total turn around. If she can just stay focused she is formidable, the Navy is going to love her. I will miss her.
I sure enjoy this part of my day. I am trying to get up earlier so that it can last longer but, I need light and yes I turn them on but daylight is important to my wake up skills. 6;30 is fine, six to dark.Tucker is the same as me,Gracie is pretty good at being an early riser at the ranch. The cows and sheep are what she wants to see. At 4:30 5:00.humm That's cool,but.....I could if I had too or if I was more interested for some reason. Of course I would if they had to depend upon me, but as it stands there is already at least five folks out there feeding them. When I start my day the only chance I get to set down is when I do this, until I fall into bed at night.So its not like I don't pull my weight and everyone Else's too, I do and I know I do. Well tis time to sweat,ugg... so must away ere break a day to seek our long forgotten gold..........to quote an old friend of mine.
Friday, April 9, 2010
OUR BACK YARD
I talk about a seasonal summer kitchen outside well for those of you
who might not realise this is our backyard and that is why one would
question weather the expense of an outside kitchen is worth it, as my
husband does.
Well I am having a ball doing this. I just quite accidentally found Fern. I hit a share button and was looking at a photo of a striking woman whom I did not recognise and I read one of her "tweets" and a couple more and all of the sudden I thought "oh my that's fern!" Go figure. heh heh
Oh I can't wait to get my plans, I guess I will call today and see if I can find out where they are or when they will be here.I am having a time going to sleep at night because my head is so full of ideas and scenarios that I can't shut down which is really quite lovely until six o clock in the morning comes rolling in. ugg
My kitchen should be quite simple and yet quite the kitchen at the same time and I am
going to have an outdoor kitchen for the summer time, I love eating outside in the summer, and I know our season is short here but it will be a work in progress and hopefully quite protected. For now its a twenty by twenty seven foot covered alcove with water and electric to it.I may put the hot tub in there for now as that will provide a sheltered area for that until the yard takes on more of a sense of place.
On a sterner note I am dieting. I have a goal. Sixteen pounds by the end of school.
I think that should be somewhere around the first week of June. I have a plan. I have been dieting and have not cheated but have not lost sense the first of March either so, I am exercising several days a week, and want to start walking more.
I want to eat more raw veggies and just really watch my portion size on protein.
Stay away from sweets and I have had one hard roll in the last 90 days. Cool no breads of any kind, I do not do well with them and I love them, I have noticed that my face has cleared up. I had a dry patch between my eyes that always itched and I knew it was some sort of allergy thing uh huh well sure enough.
This blogging sure takes time, I find myself not doing a lot of other things I maybe should be doing?
Oh I can't wait to get my plans, I guess I will call today and see if I can find out where they are or when they will be here.I am having a time going to sleep at night because my head is so full of ideas and scenarios that I can't shut down which is really quite lovely until six o clock in the morning comes rolling in. ugg
My kitchen should be quite simple and yet quite the kitchen at the same time and I am
going to have an outdoor kitchen for the summer time, I love eating outside in the summer, and I know our season is short here but it will be a work in progress and hopefully quite protected. For now its a twenty by twenty seven foot covered alcove with water and electric to it.I may put the hot tub in there for now as that will provide a sheltered area for that until the yard takes on more of a sense of place.
On a sterner note I am dieting. I have a goal. Sixteen pounds by the end of school.
I think that should be somewhere around the first week of June. I have a plan. I have been dieting and have not cheated but have not lost sense the first of March either so, I am exercising several days a week, and want to start walking more.
I want to eat more raw veggies and just really watch my portion size on protein.
Stay away from sweets and I have had one hard roll in the last 90 days. Cool no breads of any kind, I do not do well with them and I love them, I have noticed that my face has cleared up. I had a dry patch between my eyes that always itched and I knew it was some sort of allergy thing uh huh well sure enough.
This blogging sure takes time, I find myself not doing a lot of other things I maybe should be doing?
Newfie at four months
This is Newfie my new pup. She is a pure bred Newfoundland.
she's smart as a whip, this morning she learned she could open Tuckers
sock drawer which was great fun much to tuckers frustration so now she
is opening all the doors and drawers!!!!!!!!!
She is a handfull.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
OUR "IN THE SUMMER TIME" FRIEND
I love this shot, this was his summer
home I guess and I think he was lonely
because he loved to visit us a lot.
gracious girl of mine own
She has a special rapport with
all animals and this guy was
so sweet I still miss him. This
too was last summer up on the
tunnel job.
My guy Tucker Lee
This picture was taken of Tucker last summer
up on the continentail divide, He had Dads
clouths on and was mooching down the road
like some mischievious Robin Hood.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Bobbies in the Navy
Good news the house plans are completed and being sent as we speak.....
Oh my gracious. I am so excited Lordy.
There is so much going on here I am crazy. My daughter Bobbie just got called into the Navy, she leaves in thirteen days, we thought she would be here until July 20th.
They called this evening. Oh my baby girl I hope she going to be as good as I think she will be, this was all my big fat idea. I can only hold my breath. I will miss her so much, she's turned into my best friend. So.... It will be me all by my lonesome taking care of the twins and grampa, doing the new house, and all that the place here needs on a daily basis, lawns, yards, cooking ,cleaning, bills, Doctors ,you name it,it happens here and I do it, with no help except Bobbie. Yikes!! And I do mean yards,there are two house's here and two yards.....
I love it, I get a little manic about it all,but I'll be fine.
Oh my gracious. I am so excited Lordy.
There is so much going on here I am crazy. My daughter Bobbie just got called into the Navy, she leaves in thirteen days, we thought she would be here until July 20th.
They called this evening. Oh my baby girl I hope she going to be as good as I think she will be, this was all my big fat idea. I can only hold my breath. I will miss her so much, she's turned into my best friend. So.... It will be me all by my lonesome taking care of the twins and grampa, doing the new house, and all that the place here needs on a daily basis, lawns, yards, cooking ,cleaning, bills, Doctors ,you name it,it happens here and I do it, with no help except Bobbie. Yikes!! And I do mean yards,there are two house's here and two yards.....
I love it, I get a little manic about it all,but I'll be fine.
blogger whoa's
Gee,
I have blogged several nice long blogs and published them into oblivion?? I have no idea where they are, I've found them a couple times but.... don't have a clue. So at this point I was going to give up, but I think I will try just continuing to blog here and see what comes of it. I see I have one follower so that's cool, not sure what I do about that, do I, can I, interact??
I have been working on floors, I am thinking that there or the fireplace rock is going to be where I have to start my colors to work around in the house?? I can't seem to find the right color floor.There is a product called KARNDEAN, it's like a real hard vinyl. It has some pretty colors but they feel too pinkish for me, I like browns and terra cotta reds, dark butterscotch, or carmel's and golds, mango's. But how do you match that with river rock? Log walls,cabinets with out too many different wood grains etc.I was thinking about going with ceramic tile on 90% of the
floor but the lady at the floor store has kinda talked me out of that because she has had tile and hated it.She says its hard to stand on, breaks, is hard to replace and she had to spend tons of time cleaning it. The karndean product is about half the price once its installed. I guess its tough as nails and if some thing happens to the floor its a stick down tile you just peal it up and replace it. I am going to continue to look, I may go with that and then use some real tile for back splashes and counters or showers sort of thing.
I have to take my dad into the Dr, this a.m.,so not a lot of spare time for me today. We shall see if this blog goes through. For now.
I have blogged several nice long blogs and published them into oblivion?? I have no idea where they are, I've found them a couple times but.... don't have a clue. So at this point I was going to give up, but I think I will try just continuing to blog here and see what comes of it. I see I have one follower so that's cool, not sure what I do about that, do I, can I, interact??
I have been working on floors, I am thinking that there or the fireplace rock is going to be where I have to start my colors to work around in the house?? I can't seem to find the right color floor.There is a product called KARNDEAN, it's like a real hard vinyl. It has some pretty colors but they feel too pinkish for me, I like browns and terra cotta reds, dark butterscotch, or carmel's and golds, mango's. But how do you match that with river rock? Log walls,cabinets with out too many different wood grains etc.I was thinking about going with ceramic tile on 90% of the
floor but the lady at the floor store has kinda talked me out of that because she has had tile and hated it.She says its hard to stand on, breaks, is hard to replace and she had to spend tons of time cleaning it. The karndean product is about half the price once its installed. I guess its tough as nails and if some thing happens to the floor its a stick down tile you just peal it up and replace it. I am going to continue to look, I may go with that and then use some real tile for back splashes and counters or showers sort of thing.
I have to take my dad into the Dr, this a.m.,so not a lot of spare time for me today. We shall see if this blog goes through. For now.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Snakes Help!!
April first,
Time, it sure has a way of speeding by. I had thought we would be deep into our building by now and we have not even started. I think we are close but wouldn't bet on it at this point. It's a good thing I have a husband who is so slow. It drives me nuts of course, but like it or not he seems to be right about how long this is taking and he doesn't seem to be in a hurry yet so.......... he is much more use to the process of time than I am.
Our location is a good one, there are one or two drawbacks but for the most part its a beautiful site.One of the drawbacks is that there is a freeway that runs by it and all that, that entails. Another thing is that there seem to be a lot of rattle snakes on the hill. I am scared for my boy mostly, but for all of us and the littlest ones more, only because my boy seems to have a thing about snakes. I worry that it is a premonition as that runs strong in my family. I also worry as we will be using quite a lot of stone out side and I know from when I was a kid that the snakes like to get in that warm stone. Hey does anybody know what i could do about this?? What about anti venom kits?How about shock guns? What about animals or birds that will get the snakes. Plants they don't like? Noise, well I get that. But hey do you know anything that might help? I still have not gotten a comment and I am not sure if I ever will because I am not sure if I am doing this right but working on it, also any help in that area, including my content or the writing itself would be vastly appreciated. Thanks my friends for the moment I am off
Time, it sure has a way of speeding by. I had thought we would be deep into our building by now and we have not even started. I think we are close but wouldn't bet on it at this point. It's a good thing I have a husband who is so slow. It drives me nuts of course, but like it or not he seems to be right about how long this is taking and he doesn't seem to be in a hurry yet so.......... he is much more use to the process of time than I am.
Our location is a good one, there are one or two drawbacks but for the most part its a beautiful site.One of the drawbacks is that there is a freeway that runs by it and all that, that entails. Another thing is that there seem to be a lot of rattle snakes on the hill. I am scared for my boy mostly, but for all of us and the littlest ones more, only because my boy seems to have a thing about snakes. I worry that it is a premonition as that runs strong in my family. I also worry as we will be using quite a lot of stone out side and I know from when I was a kid that the snakes like to get in that warm stone. Hey does anybody know what i could do about this?? What about anti venom kits?How about shock guns? What about animals or birds that will get the snakes. Plants they don't like? Noise, well I get that. But hey do you know anything that might help? I still have not gotten a comment and I am not sure if I ever will because I am not sure if I am doing this right but working on it, also any help in that area, including my content or the writing itself would be vastly appreciated. Thanks my friends for the moment I am off
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
To wolf or not to wolf
Today is my oldest foster daughters, 27th birthday so we are off to do a day for her, she is quite the gal. My Andy is down stairs working on a major bid for a big mine. My log home guy e-mailed me and is going to send me a stained piece of log so I can have the color of the log to work off of for my color pallet that I am trying to put together. I started a scrap book last night to have some thing I can take to town to work from and show people what the place looks like and what I am thinking about in the way of colors and floors etc. I am so excited it's hard to have patience and set back and wait for things to happen, but it is so cool right now. I have to say this is the happiest I have ever been in my life. I think mainly because things are generally so good but also because I am creating on a daily basis. So for now I am hoping the world is out there and wanting them to be interested in my life....
For now I need to get ready because I've a hour drive betwix me and town, or is that town and I??? heh heh
I am wondering about cultured stone, are there better ones than others, as far as quality of stone? Also dear readers I need to know if I were to splurge and go with a wolf cook top in my kitchen, is that a good idea. Has anyone had one they loved or hated. My mother was a cook, a real cook! She passed away three years ago and I want this kitchen for her so much that I have to question every thing I do, if that makes any sense.
for now I miss you already but I am off...
For now I need to get ready because I've a hour drive betwix me and town, or is that town and I??? heh heh
I am wondering about cultured stone, are there better ones than others, as far as quality of stone? Also dear readers I need to know if I were to splurge and go with a wolf cook top in my kitchen, is that a good idea. Has anyone had one they loved or hated. My mother was a cook, a real cook! She passed away three years ago and I want this kitchen for her so much that I have to question every thing I do, if that makes any sense.
for now I miss you already but I am off...
Monday, March 29, 2010
spring in montana
I have spent the last three years off and on working on designing a house for us to build. Us being, my husband Andy kids, Tucker and Gracie, grampa, Newfie the dog, Seeley and Coffee the cats, couple of fish and stray relatives depending on which given day we're talking about.
This home has evolved over the coarse of time through trial and error, changing likes and dislikes, life itself getting in the way and you name it, its happened.
I kept making it to big or too elaborate to afford. I kept not wanting a million dollar home, even if I could , I wouldn't want that, it seems obscene to me to spend that kind of money on a house.So over the course of time I relaxed my idea of what I had to have, left out corners and made it smaller, as I wrapped my mind around the new ideas they became my own and I Incorporated them into the home.
Then My husband started wondering about size, he said " I don't know what two thousand square feet feels like, I don't know what four thousand square feet feels like." So I called a real estate woman and asked her to show us some houses in that size. We set up a couple days of looking with her and went out and looked. What we found surprised us both. We looked at all kinds of house's but one of the houses we looked at was a log home.
Now up until that point we had been absolutely against log homes, nothing about them appealed to us, and the maintenance of one gave us nightmares. The home we looked at had been built with out any thought of flow or floor plan at all, it was strange. But on the way home a couple of days later I kept going over it all in my mind and finally I asked Andy "Of all those houses which place did you like the best" Andy never one to put himself on the spot said "Gee honey I don't know which one did you like the best?" I told him I liked the log home the best, I said it felt like walking into home after being gone a long time. Andy was immediately excited and said " I know, I know I felt exactly the same way, It was home!" And so began one of the most satisfying times of my life, the journey of our log home.
This home has evolved over the coarse of time through trial and error, changing likes and dislikes, life itself getting in the way and you name it, its happened.
I kept making it to big or too elaborate to afford. I kept not wanting a million dollar home, even if I could , I wouldn't want that, it seems obscene to me to spend that kind of money on a house.So over the course of time I relaxed my idea of what I had to have, left out corners and made it smaller, as I wrapped my mind around the new ideas they became my own and I Incorporated them into the home.
Then My husband started wondering about size, he said " I don't know what two thousand square feet feels like, I don't know what four thousand square feet feels like." So I called a real estate woman and asked her to show us some houses in that size. We set up a couple days of looking with her and went out and looked. What we found surprised us both. We looked at all kinds of house's but one of the houses we looked at was a log home.
Now up until that point we had been absolutely against log homes, nothing about them appealed to us, and the maintenance of one gave us nightmares. The home we looked at had been built with out any thought of flow or floor plan at all, it was strange. But on the way home a couple of days later I kept going over it all in my mind and finally I asked Andy "Of all those houses which place did you like the best" Andy never one to put himself on the spot said "Gee honey I don't know which one did you like the best?" I told him I liked the log home the best, I said it felt like walking into home after being gone a long time. Andy was immediately excited and said " I know, I know I felt exactly the same way, It was home!" And so began one of the most satisfying times of my life, the journey of our log home.
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