Happy New Year 2020

We have seen all kinds of weather this last week. Today the fog rolled in and out and back in again several  times.

We have run the gambit of all kinds of weather that's for sure.

The kitchen is supposed to have the flooring put down this coming month and get the stove and kitchen buffet (old dresser we redid) out of the dining room :).

Hope all have a great New Year to come, 2019 was something else here for us with lots of heath problems.

Merry Christmas, Plus This That and The Other

Merry Christmas everyone

This was the month to clean the coop before hard winter set upon us. Yea for tractors to help with the work.

Not much going on, just the regular work. We're still behind in our projects but dear hubby's heath improving means a lot. So this is short and sweet this time. :)

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone + Snow

Yes like some others we got quite a bit of snow Monday. Around 12 inches as the night wore on. Not as much as those in the upper mid-west but enough lol.
Monday night. White streaks of snow.

With flash

Morning

Early morning as the sun top the eastern hills.

Plowing time to get the car out of lower driveway.

Ground Hugging Fog

Yep, fog drifting through the trees and across the land, chilly and damp. But we had a bit milder week last week and most of this coming is supposed to be that way before it turns cold again. I see the Midwest, some of the east and south is going in to the deep freeze now.

Another son joined us a week ago along with grandson and helped clean up all the tree branches and leaves on the west side of the house. The larger logs had already been picked up and put behind the barn by the gentlemen from the Church who came up to help fill the woodshed.

To being cleaned.

It is so nice to walk outside to go to the coop with out trying to keep from tripping over branches.

Cutting this out of the way. The boot scraper was completely in the wrong place.

Been A Very Long Month.

Dear hubby even had a fever when he was splitting wood last month. It continued and got worse and worse. Turns out it was an abscess on his lower intestine that developed from his surgery in May. He spent four days in the hospital and getting antibiotic every six hours. They put a drain into it and left it in for 5 days. He is finally getting a bit better.

It has snowed several times and was minus 4 degrees last night.

This is the picture of the side area where the limps came  down, looking up.

Son S. came up and helped butcher the turkeys 3 weeks ago. Two were his.

Plus we managed to get the post painted that are in the ground for the barn lean-to. This is how it will have to be until next year.

I have been repainting the kitchen buffet that we made from an old dresser. This is before I painted the knobs off white.

Just after sunset one evening.

There Be Snow! Work & Help. And Timberrrrrrrrr

Wood splitting and more wood splitting last Wednesday and Thursday. First chance dh has gotten to start.

He and I also managed to get two more posts in for the barn lean-to. So eight in and two to go.

Saturday the 28th. Of course it was raining and kind of miserable outside. A son came up to help jack hammer a hole into the rock for one of the last post holes that will go in up at the barn. he even cleaned it up and said he would take it back to the Rental place before work on Monday.

Then he spent around 4 1/2 hours splitting wood for us. Dh had been running a fever and son said he would take over and he did.

Then Sunday came along. We got up to 2-3 inches of snow and 30 deg. F. We also got to do face time and take with our daughter in Afghanistan, that was very nice. 

At 10:40 the house shook, and a big kaboom as at least half of our mountain maple tree fell on the west side of the house.

Dh and son made sure the propane tank was protected.

Same son cam back up and helped so we could use our back door and find out what damage we had on the roof. We hated to have to do it on Sunday but no help for it at all. So out came the chain saw.

Our comes the winch from son's Jeep to hook on the biggest limb and pull it off the roof of the house..

Then down it all came. They got the branches pulled off the roof and found only two holes, one over the bathroom and one over the back porch. Dh says both easy fixes thank goodness.

At the front of the house the other big branch was looking so good so they took it down as well.

Headed home.

Behind But Some Progress

Because of dh's heath problems this year it has put us two months behind what has needed to be done before winter snows hit us. But we're really trying. 

He has finished his radiation treatments as of last week and we will know in a month if they helped.

The kitchen has new colors and only been in the works for 2 or so years, the paint needed a whole lot of stirring lol. Sure makes our small kitchen brighter.

The white on the outside is pretty well finished except for a bit here and there, the trim still needs repainted.

This past week doing sprinkles and rain and temperatures in the 50's it was time to get working on the lean-to in front of the barn.

The neighbor got his backhoe working and came over to help level the ground better as it is up hill from the east side of the barn to the west. Plus more rock then you can shake a stick at. Dh took the rock and dirt away as it was dug.

Now the other hand work has begone. These first two posts were the easiest but still have to break up the rock with a pry bar. The further west he goes the more rock breaking involved. He says 98 percent rock 2 percent dirt.

Caught a bumble bee in the fall flowers.