Pine needle pick up season again!
Jimmy used the maintenance golf cart (not his new one) to load up pine needles and take them to the dump. then came my setting up bird feeders and planting flowers in pots! I'll post more soon!

While driving to El Paso for dinner, I got a good shot of the KTSM Antenna tower and the Aerial Tramway that my daddy built back in the 60s. The Tramway system goes down the other side of the mountain....quite a fete at the time. my dad and brothers and workers went up and down the mountain on a platform and a cable, to build it. The actual TV tower had giant bolts that needed to be tightened every few days, in the beginning, because the wind made the tower sway! Now, of course, there is a cable car.....and last I heard, it was no longer running........BUT, the big thing at the time, was that you could see 3 states and 2 countries! (Texas, New Mexico and Chihuahua, Mexico!)

Headed back to the mountains at the end of the week.

After arriving in Las Cruces....the new truck "Sync" radio system didn't work so we took it to the dealership and they gave us a PRIUS!!! What a hoot...the car got 50 MPG and was so quiet, when you stopped at a stoplight, you think the engine died! We went to dinner with some friends, in El Paso and left the dogs in the running car with the a/c/ on. Some woman freaked out and called the police because we left the dogs in the car with the windows rolled up! Jimmy walked out and made her stick her hand in the car....70 degrees! OOPS!

We "Loaded up the truck and moved to Beverleee....." I felt like the Beverly Hillbillies.....but we loaded the golfcart onto the truck and headed west. A quick trip to the deck to off-load some things then I had to be in Las Cruces, NM for a doctor's appointment.

And my beautiful kitchen with the fabulous granite counters!

It's done! The house has been staged, and it is NOW, impossible to live in, but ready for being put on the market.

Here it is with the matching paint stripe!

Jimmy's new golf cart.....Street legal, cool, huh?

In the middle of all this, Jimmy decided to trade the Hummer in for a new pick-up truck. I know, I know....shocked me too... 13 years of Hummers!
But it was basically so he could carry his new golf cart in the back.

This is the backsplash, called Split-faced Mexican Noce.....

Next were the countertops, from formica to granite...a beautiful color called....creama bordeaux....
We also replaced the sink in the office bathroom with a cabinet and some left over granite countertop, with a vessel sink.

This is the beginning.......
Remodeled the kitchen, just like I always wanted, and then , as always, decided to put it up for sale!
He did this with the our first bus, too !

He has also decided to move to New Mexico. We plan to build houses there and he has wanted to live there since the beginning, so with the house totally re-done, bathrooms and kitchen, on the market it goes!

First was the floor.. from white porcelin to a pretty travertine.