Still clearing land

One of the great things about living here is with the trash service, they will also haul away some natural rubbish. This month I think we may have pushed it too far.

In front of house

The pile was quite high already, but today my Friend from Colorado, Steve, of “Steve and Katie” fame, who are on the last few days of a two-month stay, has moved up a bunch of the palm tree fronds from the back of the property.

So while we have been working on the house, we’ve also been clearing quite a bit of the property, faster than we can get it out of here really.

felled trees

We have these piles of dead trees, branches, etc all over the place. We’ll try to mulch as much of it as we can, burn some and take some out to the road to be hauled away.

With Steve and Katie on their way out, we are getting ready to have three rounds of Grandkids visiting so we are working on finishing up the last bits of construction in the house. We have to wrap of the closing of the main house to the studio.

studio door

And FINALLY, we have decided how we want to treat the fireplace in the main house, framed it in late last week, will drywall today, then tape and float, spackle and paint. Hopefully, we can get it done before the kids start showing up.

Fireplace

Life happens

Wow, It’s bee quite awhile since either of us has posted . . . sorry about that. Peace. 🙂

 

Let’s hits the life happens stuff first. We placed my Dad into memory care in October. He was headed downward pretty fast even then. He ended up passing on the 18th of February. He truly was an amazing person: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/coloradoan/obituary.aspx?n=richard-d-acott&pid=188319940 .

Mom was in the hospital during the same period, it seemed that she was trying to beat Dad out of here. She almost did but somehow decided she wasn’t quite ready yet and decided to fight. We are all so proud of her for doing so. She is now in a group home there in Az, seems to like it quite well and is really doing well.

The house is moving along at a very good clip now, I’ll start updating that more regularly . . . still living in the camper though, still mostly getting along. Mostly. 🙂