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Busy Past months

I know, always the excuse as to why no blog updates. So much has happened that i could write pages and pages. Relax, I am not going to write pages LOL.

Highlights:

  • Some one was murdered in our complex
  • our neighbor purposely ran into our station wagon twice and totaled it and the shed wall.
  • A unit across from us  was shot up lots of holes
  • the next night another unit one building down was shot up – lots more holes
  • My father pulled my moms car out of the trust and gave it to me (we pay back the trust upon his death)
  • we were not so politely told that we needed to leave by people occupying the slum lords units (10-15 people in each unit)
  • we gather every dime we had available without pulling from retirement
  • a mobile home was coming up for sale in a 55+ complex that is owned by the association (no changeling to a family park)
  • we but our valuables into storage
  • Catfish dog’s cancer came back and we kept him comfortable until . .. we are going to sped his ashes. I really miss my little guy.
  • our offer on mobile home was accepted,
  • the next day we accepted an offer on the condo from a broker we had been talking with.
  • mobile home escrow closed
  • we had our friends son in law paint, build a fence, instal gates and misc touch ups
  • friends and all camp at the condo with shotgun so does not get broken into
  • we hired a security guard to watch the place after we moved the last of our things out two days before it closed.
  • Annie is adjusting to the move they are still a bit nervous

The mobile home has a ramp, covered parking  for three on one side and one on the other. Our back looks out on a big grassy area and one side along the has grassy area also It has a fully walled in porch with two sliding doors.  Not counting the porch it is around 499 sq feet smaller than or townhouse/condo so we are going nuts trying to find places for things. We donated lots of stuff the the goodwill and to the library here.

Billy came from Nevada with the boys (they are men now) and hauled a lot of stuff to the dump, e waste, and cans of paint etc. Brandon came back twice and  helped us with the packing :).  Our friends son in law, his cousin, my niece and her husband moved our furniture and remaining boxes. We packed up everything in banker boxes and moved them to the mobile home in the pick up late at night early mornign when the bad folks were crashed out and done for the night.

Some snaps

before paint dinning area

Before

aafter paint dinning area

after

vanity Master bedroom before paint

before

vanith after paint lights etc

after master bedroom vanity

living room

Living room

bedroom

let side master bedroom

ramp

ramp repairs

living room

living room behind couch

Ok that is all for now 🙂

Visitor’s

anthonyOur Godson Anthony is here. He is staying at our place till Monday and then off to hang with old friends. Next week is is going to the Persian Gulf area. He works for  a private security company now that he is out of the Marines.

It is great to see him before he lives as he probably will be gone a year this time.

Right after this pic was taken we started getting hit with hot ashes floating down from the sky.

The main street had four fire trucks on it, around the corner two more, and then where the actual fires (sadly we heard that it was two homes) the street was lined with trucks.

Someone told Anthony that the fire was jumping through the large tress so that was why so many trucks.

Anyways this is gonna be a great weekend. Billy, Trish, and Brandon are arriving tonight and spending the week. It is Brandon’s 17th birthday – augh I am feeling so old.  It seems like only of few years ago that Billy was his age!

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Mission Accomplished

IMGP0725Well my mission has been accomplished. KRP mentioned a few weeks ago that she really wished that we  had some plants in the backyard, some flowers to look at and smell.

As I mentioned I have slowly been cleaning up the yard and planting flowers and other plants. I put some mint and peppermint in pots where the breeze (when we have one) blows through the fence and catches the minty smell. I planted a fern in the shady corner and set up a couple of our camp chairs for now.IMGP0678

The best surprise – it is her birthday on the 30th – I found a water fountain that I could afford and got it set up. There are not a lot of things I can manage to do for her now days. Money is tight too. I swear I need to sleep all next week but I got it done! I even got the mess of potting soil etc cleaned up everyday so if she looked out the sliding door she would not notice the small changes. This also meant that I had to scoop the poop and wash down the patio each day. I think she wondered what had gotten into me as I am not big on the poop detail with any regularity. Once a day and I figure it is someone else’s turn :mrgreen:

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It may not look like much and I am not fluent in gardenese but I think when the plants all grow out it will look pretty cool.  Last night I found her fast asleep with her book – she said the fountain sound was very relaxing.

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Blah, Blah, Blah . …

flower006I wish I had something marvelous, exciting, or at the least interesting to type but I do not, really.

Lets see -um – I saw my neurologist and there is nothing from that worth putting to type other than she was sure I was in secondary  stage not just considering it. Not sure what that really means other than woo hoo a new label.  I did get to impress her with my ability to make it 4 feet heel to toe in the hallway. I practice doing this everyday along the line in the tile in the living room. OK, it was a wobbly rendition of the drunk test walk but I did not fall.

I have been slowly filling up pots with soil and foliage. The little yard might end up looking like a jungle when all the plants grow up. I even planted a hanging planter. I have been trying to use old bricks to make different levels for the pots. I even installed a little drip system in the brick planter show  in the previous post. It is slow going and really wears me out but it gives me something to do. I do most of the work after the sun goes down so I get to enjoy being outside when it is sort of cool.

I got a prescripiton for a cooling vest that would fit under a life vest, one with the little carry along deal that runs it – put the insurance looks like it won’t cover it blah, blah, blah . … I kind of figured that anyways but hey offer me a prescriptions and I am thinking oh heck why not. It would be nice to be able to get out on the boat and fish. Who knows I might even catch a few bass.  Even with the top we have it just gets too hot too fast for me out on the lake and I am a firm believer in wearing a life vest lest I end up in the water.  Getting wet sort of works but the boat is not exactly set up to get in out of the water like a ski boat would be. Besides the darn water stinks after a few dunks.

Well, maybe the plants will bloom and I will get out there and set up the tripod and give it ago. That way I can set the shot up and use the remote so I don’t shake and wobble and ruin the shot.

This posts photo was taken in a parking lot a few years ago with the Sony F828 I owned before I got my Nikon.