H ere is proof that progress has been made on the mess of downed trees in our yard. One log rack down, many more to go!
I think we have plenty of trees left that are still standing. This is the view of the front yard from the upstairs bay window.
As you can see, we are making progress with the siding, too.
I have to hand it to the guys that are siding our house. They worked in the rain the first week, and they worked on without electricity the second week. They are doing a great job and it’s been fun to watch the house transform, right before my eyes.
The Back of our house is all finished. We still need to clean up the mess from the trees.
For a few years now, Chris and I have been addicted to a game we down loaded from the internet called Snood. We actually have Snood wars, where we try to out do each other on the high score board. The weird part is that every time Chris wins he puts the name of a furntzer on the board. For those of you that do not know what a furntzer is I refer you Here. I, on the other hand have my own weird score board isms. Kittiesrule, Rikkirocks and Queen Elizabeth are all mine. (Elise is French for Elizabeth) The rest are all the names of Chris’s Furntzers.
Here is a picture of a game of Snood in action
Yes, that furntzer “Skwiggul” does have first place on the Snood score board, but that is only because lately, I have moved on to DGEN, which is a game that Ben put on my computer, so he could play it when he comes home to visit.
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This is the chipper that my sister-in-law Becky dropped off at our house to help us with the clean up from the tree cutting and the wind storm.
This is just one of many piles that will give that chipper a good work out
Here is another pile of mess. I think there might be a lot of home made mulch in my future!
Every year, Sperry Road has an annual clam bake. This is the road my husband lived on, when he was growing up. His mom still lives there. We have attended this clam bake together every year since the late 1970’s, although Chris remembers going to it as a young child in the 1960’s. It takes place across the street from his mom’s house on a piece of land that is rented out to The Geauga Bowmen Archery Club, and the property is owned by the family that lives next to the archery range.
This picture was taken at a weird angle by my son Ben, who I think was trying to be artistic. The back of the head to the left is my husband Chris, That’s me in the middle, and on the right is sombody who I’m not going to name because I want Margaret to guess who it is! By the way Margaret, he says hi to you and Miles & suggested that I use his photo for weird object friday, but I decided that I didn’t want to wait that long!
Here is another photo of our mystery man, along with Chris. These two have been friends for 50 years! Click HERE Margaret for another clue, but I know you don’t really need it.
Last Sunday we had a huge wind storm. It toppled an electrical transformer that was two houses away, resulting in a loss of power that lasted for almost a week. This is a picture of one of the trees that we lost from the back yard.
You can see from this picture where that tree abruptly snapped off. We were so lucky because the wind was blowing from the west and the tree fell sideways. It could have destroyed our garage if it had fallen in a different direction.
But as you can tell from this picture of Chris, we are making some progress with the cleanup. I hope all of you are safe and have made it though all bad weather we have been experiencing.
I‘ve been spending a lot of time lately on the floor with the heating pad. Look what happens if I get up.
Thank-you Jen for my Award!
This jade ring belonged to my mom. I have never worn it. Maybe some Halloween, when I am dressed up like Cleopatra I’ll wear it. Probably not!
Did I mention the matching necklace? I do wear this occaionally, when Rikki isn’t borrowing it.
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The good news is that the siding project is going well. You can see the new siding on the bottom half and the peeling paint on the top. This is the back of our garage. Those two windows are new too.
The bad news is that I hurt my back while trying to clean up after the tree trimming & the cutting down of six trees. This picture is was taken after Ben, Chris and Ben’s friend Justin spent many hours on the clean up. I am better today, but it’s been a tough week!
We are getting ready to have our house sided and have discovered that the kitchen and laundry room had absolutely NO insulation. No wonder that part of the house was always so cold in winter! So Chris has been cutting holes into the existing siding to feed in strips of insulation. This wasp’s nest was quite a surprise. Just look at the size of it. Thank goodness it was not active!