Rainbow!

While cutting and burning the diseased trees, yesterday....A beautiful rainbow appeared....it was only there for about 15 minutes....

The Burn Pile

 

Jimmy's tree removal service.....

Entrance!

Today, they poured, stained and stamped the front porch and walkway......its so pretty! 

Pinetop carshow and fly-in 2012

Today was another day in paradise....beautiful day, in the 70s, so we got the '69 Olds out of the neighbor's garage and drove to the Sierra Blanca airport for the "planes, trains and automobiles" show!
It was a very enjoyable day, saw several people from out of town, even El Paso!

Wrapping the house

Finally! The house is being wrapped and meshed getting ready for the stucco!

Weeds!

I have no idea what these are, except pretty weeds, but I asked Jimmy to take a picture!

Exhausted Rufous hummingbird

 

Now that the windows are in....a poor little hummingbird got in and couldn't figure out how to get out of the house. He kept flying back and forth in the window...he was so exhausted that Jimmy caught him.....he rested a little then after about 10 seconds, flew away!

Fireplaces and windows!

I got my fireplaces in, upstairs and down....now, my windows have arrived!
It's getting close to being dried in!

Skunkface!

Getting a bath!

Skunkface!

Thursday night, as we were walking to the Coach to go to bed, Nikki decided to chase a skunk!
Soooooo,
Jimmy headed to Walmart at 10:00 pm to by all the stuff we needed to "de-skunk" her. Thank goodness it was only a glancing blow, down the side of her face to her shoulder...no eyes!
If anyone needs the recipe....here it is:
the first thing you do is act fast....don't let it dry out.
2-3 teaspoons of Dawn dishwashing liquid....its better than off brands. 1/2 cup of baking soda and 2 pints of hydrogen peroxide. For little dogs, cut in half.
We used a wash mitt and scrubbed her. Also, don't let it get on your skin or clothes!
Then bathed her in her normal shampoo.
Then the magic......
Buy the pink Massengill at the store...mix 4 oz. with 2 gallons of water, pour it all over the dog and let it sit for 15 minutes, then rinse really well.
I swear it works there's NO TRACE of smell on her.
I have friends who didn't use tha Massengill, the dog doesn't smell....until it gets wet, like rain....then its back, weeks later!

More roof shots......

Here are some more roof shots, the footings for the front porch and Jimmy took a couple of pictures from across the valley.

Loving' Spoonful!

We had a wonderful break from the stress of the house, last Saturday.
The Lovin' Spoonful came to town!