Come, Sit, Enjoy

We love our land, it is so beautiful and peaceful. There are lots of places to enjoy the different views we have.

There are several other places I want to create sitting areas in but haven't quite decided the type of seats or materials to use yet.

 Enjoy the pond.

 Watch for wildlife while having dinner.

 Enjoy the grand girls swinging.

Wait for visitors to come up the drive.

Lots of places to sit and enjoy a cup of coffee in the morning and look at what God has created for us to enjoy.

Burn Baby Burn

We live in a metal building. Outside studs are metal, roof is metal, exterior walls are metal. We shouldn't burn; but things can happen. To protect our valuables we are adding protection to the office closet. This is where the safe will be, the gun cabinet, important papers.

The walls will be drywall, metal, studs, metal, drywall. Each layer adds hours of burn time. The ceiling is being treated the same way. The HVAC equipment is above this room so we need protection from above.

The closet juts into the ell of the Trophy Room, that's why there is the outer layer of drywall. Should be a fairly safe room. Won't stand up to a tornado but we will take that chance.

Need Some Art Work

Bill and I love yard art! Not the garden gnome kind but art work. We have our Buffalo, a Momma Crocodile and her baby, a Roadrunner, turtles, all kinds of stuff. Today, I finished our Electric Pavilion. This is the area that is full of electrical boxes and a water hydrant so it is a pain to weed eat to keep it looking nice. After a sprinkler system all this grass will be a shrub bed.

Lots going on in the area but really boring. I think I want to see if we can find a metal sculpture of the OG&E power guy. He would look really cool standing in our Electric Pavilion. May have to track down my old homebuilders contact, Steve Sullivan, and see if he knows of where to find one. Steve works for OG&E. If not maybe I can find a cowboy with a lasso that we can change around.

Patchwork Quilt

Bill got the office ceiling sheetrocked today using  his handy dandy sheetrock lifter. The  ceiling looks like a Patchwork quilt. He is using all the old sheetrock that was on the ceiling and walls from the original rooms. After taping and texture you will never know they weren't brand new sheets.

 We have all these left to do the walls with. He thought Sutton and I were crazy when we were popping these off the walls instead of demolishing them.

Ingenius

Time to start putting sheet rock up in the office. Those sheets are heavy and cumbersome. Some guy who got real tired of hauling those sheets up ladders set his mind to work and came up with a great contraption. It is a sheet rock lifter.

 You put the sheet of drywall on it and go to work.

 It's at a height Bill can make the cuts for vents and lights without bending over.

 When you are ready you just spin this wheel and up it goes.

 Its arms hold the sheet in place while you screw it in. This tool will go up 15 feet and if you  need it higher there is an extension for it. One person can do the job of two with this guy.

I hope whoever invented this got the intellectual property on it and not some company. The inventor needs to get the royalties. So simple and yet so great.

Bill had checked the rental price in town and it was $24/day. The place just down the road from us wanted $45/day. For that price difference we will go to town. No need to go to town, the guy gave us the day price for a 3 day weekend. Love small businesses that go out of their way to give good customer service.

Oh How He Loves Me

Most woman want flowers, chocolate, wine. I do love getting those but Bill knows the fastest way to my heart is a vacuum system. He has the unit installed in the garage for me now. The other systems we have had you emptied the canister from the bottom and it wasn't all that easy to  put the canister back on. As we get older it would have become more difficult. This one empties from the top. Putting the bag back in after emptying will be a breeze. Especially, if I can cajole him into doing it for me.

 Nothing else is hooked up yet because there are no floors ready to use it on.

Check out my car floor!!!! My car wash has a pretty good vacuum but, nothing like this. It will take a few good vacuumings to get all the grunge from working a rock yard out. All the little crevasses will be clean again. I don't have to plan a trip to town now I can just go out to the garage. I am so happy.

Day Dreaming

Bill got another window put in the office. This will be his view from his desk. I can see him putting his feet up on his desk and staring out the window.

 The deer trail is right behind the well house. He will be able to watch the deer, the birds, the trash truck, all the important things in nature. The window is very deep because of dealing with the metal walls. He is thinking of what he wants to sit in his window sill. I think he should put our Brazilian Amethyst and Geodes. We'll see what he comes up with.

Bill is really getting into the game we have of using whatever we have laying around to build with. The previous owner left all kinds of good stuff we just have to find the right spot to use it. All the wood around this window was in the attic of the West Wing. Three different types of wood but once the drywall goes on you will have no idea and the only cost in the window is the window itself and the nails. If we were in a hurry to build we wouldn't do this but there is no time frame so why not have some fun.