A day off...

 We took a day off...  when the King goes hunting.. I go with my camera and a book.. and yesterday was no different..    But this time he was not hunting for 4 legged critters.. he was hunting for mushrooms.. He got only 4..  so far this year.. the pickings are slim..  But the huckleberry look like it might be a bummer year.. Huckleberry, for those on the east coast.. is a blueberry like berry, but better tasting. 

So here is what the camera picked up.. 

this is the burnt area from last years wildfire... see the burnt tree that was growing around and over the large rock?

this is a fir tree.. but I found it unusual.. as it was a deep green thru out, but on the tips were a neon like color of light green

wild strawberries... 

some one with a short frame... .like a 4x4 turn around here before we got there.. we turn around shortly after..    we were about 20 miles of the roughest road ever up... 

the crooks of the trees... weird how they grow like that

the King coming down ... slowly...  from where he thought he might find something.. he did hear elk crashing thru the woods ,   he thinks he spooked them..  

the creeks were running fast and furious down hill

this is Pack River.. where Trout creek empties out and they both empty out to the Lake Pend Orielle 

this is called Bear Grass... don't know why? 

deep into the woods it is dark and there is a lot of trees that have fallen.. which is surprising as they are so close together

UPDATING....

 What I have found out is...  construction is a slow process..  Being a person who wants to get things done asap... to take on this project..  I have had to tone down....ME...  I finally found a place for me.. to mellow out..  lol..   like most things.. it is the devil is in the details.. AND DETAILS WE HAVE..  it is called the trim.  The trim around the windows.. the trim at the top of the wall.. the trim around each hole..  meaning for the vents and lights and etc.. So here we go again..  the pictures that I hope says a thousand words.. because this is all I have for today.. 

And most of all.. a huge THANK YOU to our contractor grandson, Mike......  we could not have done it without you.. 

Here is one of the details..  the light had to be removed..  a hole to allow for it in the metal.. and then rewiring back to fit the fixture back on to the wall. 

Kind of hard to see, but there is trim up the top by the wall and soffit...  and around the window frame. 

this is the finish product... of the front porch.  

This is the back finished.. the deck and back wall... 

of course the project is not a good project unless you have your sidewalk supervisors.. no chairs this time. 

And  to show you that it is not easy.. we have grandson up top putting in the sheet of metal.. with the King down on the ground under the porch ... guiding the sheet to it's proper place

next week.. hopefully the driveway side and then the front. 

Rainy days and Rainy nights..

Rainy days and Rainy Nights..  Wasted days and Wasted nights….  You are the reason why we are so blue……

Seems to be our song of late.  Seems like God is going to make sure we take this remodel slooooooooooooowly….

But I am grateful for Sunday…  as my mother use to say.. this too shall pass. 

We can find other things to do.  And if the weather does change in the afternoon…  we can paint the windows frames to the same color as the trim.    For one job that is still to be done. 

We also have a back yard by the back gate loaded with all kinds of bush to take to the dump.  Having to cut a lot off of our snowball bush… we have a lot.  Don’t know what hit my bush but it is killing a lot of it.   But one project at a time.

 

They say a picture is worth.........

They say a picture is worth a thousand words... so hope so, as here are some pictures.. 

First off, today, one of my peonies decided to bloom

And the rest is of the metal finally going up..  Thanks to our grandson who is a contractor.. 

This is the work shop..   lol..  

in this one .. if you look in the corner you will see the blue trim 

 

and of course you have to have the supervisors section...  for those who watched.  Our neighbor Larry came down to see how things were going.. so while our grandson and the King worked we talked and watched.