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!

Almost have a roof!

I almost have a roof! Jimmy is standing on top of the Coach garage, says the view is really great from there.
I won't be crawling up there to see!

The crane arrived at 8 am, on a cloudy, cool day.......of all days we've prayed for rain....we don't need it today!

My Roof Arrives!!!

The roof trusses finally arrived! Can't believe they got it all on one truck. It's like a giant erector set......8 trusses bundled together, 12 bundled, etc. they go to different places on the house. The trailer they came in on was fascinating...it had rollers and the driver slowly pulled up then backed up fast, slammed into the trailer and the wood started rolling off. Then he hit a button that started lifting the front end and the rest rolled off as he pulled forward......gentle as could be!

Turkey trot!

So cute!!

A whole family of turkeys just passed through the campsite, by my front door! There were about a 20 of them......5 adults and the rest chicks! I had to scramble to get these pics!

Preparing for the roof!

 Jimmy,
Donald, another neighbor, and the framers were preparing the porch for the roof trusses, due in on Tuesday. Had to have a small crane place the 38' beam in place, so Jimmy could weld the upstairs steel posts to it. By the way, I had to buy Jimmy some suspenders....his pants keep falling off! haha!

Jimmy. the welder!

Here's Jimmy, with help from JR....welding the upstairs steel posts!