Getting a few things done.

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This morning I went by the bank to get my spending limit raised and then to the library parking lot to use the internet. After that my dad and I drove to Trenton, Georgia to a materials place, then on to Fort Payne, Alabama to another. At the second spot I bought a couple of doors. Unfortunately the vanities that I liked had been sold. We drove back to the Mountain the scenic way, and dropped the doors off at my storage unit. I went by Piggly Wiggly for some food and cooked a late lunch. After relaxing for a little bit I went to the job site and cleaned up trash, moved block and logs, and loaded totes and pallets onto the trailer. It was nice to get the site looking good. It was still super muddy though. After returning to the cottage I have just been relaxing and looking for materials online.

Blocked.

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I got a call at 6:30 this morning saying that the masons were coming. I was surprised and skeptical since it was raining, but I drove up to the Mountain as quickly as I could. They were waiting when I arrived, but didn’t start work until about ten due to the rain. It was a very stressful day with a couple of trips to get sand and lots of material moving with the tractor, but about seven hours after starting, they were finished. That was a good feeling. I drove down to Manchester to pay their boss, then came back up to the cottage to shower. My dad and I went to the Mexican restaurant in town to celebrate. Now I am pretty wore out and hope to go to sleep soon.

A wet but good day.

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This morning after breakfast we drove to the garden center on the other side of town, and although it was closed, Liz was able to walk around and find a bird bath that she likes. I’ll go back to get it tomorrow. We went from there to Kroger and filled up the cart. After dropping the groceries off at home we drove to Home Depot in Spring Hill. We wanted to buy a lot more hot pepper suet but they only had one of them. We drove home and played until lunch, tried to have quiet time, then drove to Target while Luke napped in the car. Luke and I built a monster tower this afternoon, which he was able to show my dad via a video call. Dinner went well but bath and bed times were a challenge. I’ll stay here tonight then do a few errands around town before driving up to the Mountain in the morning. There is rain forecast for the whole week, so probably no masons until next week.

Big time fun.

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This morning we went to the farmer’s market for bread and vegetables. Unfortunately the cinnamon roll guy wasn’t there for the second week in a row. We returned home with our bounty and after unloading everything and packing up lunch we headed towards Eagleville. Our destination was Lucky Ladd farms. There were tons of people there when we arrived and we had to wait in line to have our tickets scanned. Once inside things went well though. I bought a cup of food for Luke to feed the goats, and he enjoyed that. We also saw cows, sheep, llamas, rabbits, peacocks, and other animals. It was “construction equipment day”, so there were a bunch of construction machines there and a mini excavator was doing some demonstrations. Luke went down some slides with both me and Liz and we had some lunch after that. It was pretty hot out but nice in the shade. We walked around a bit more, feed the goats the last of our overpriced food, and left. All in all it was a very enjoyable time. We were only there for a couple of hours but it felt like much longer. We took a circuitous route home through Lewisburg so that Luke could nap. Erik came to get some firewood after we arrived, and then Luke and I played until dinner time. After dinner I mowed grass and saw that we are getting a little action on one of the straw bales. Tomorrow I will take a picture of it.

A bad surprise and then a good one.

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Last night at about 9:30, when I was nearing Lynchburg I got a call saying that the masons would not be coming today. I still drove on because I had some things to do this morning there, like buying more twelve inch block and dropping off stuff at my storage unit. I also did some reading at the cottage. Early this afternoon I drove down to Shelbyville to put a deposit on my cabinets then drove on home to surprise Liz and Luke again, since they hadn’t been expecting me to arrive until late, because they didn’t know about the masons bailing. So we all went to downtown Columbia for the “First Friday” celebration, and it was a bit of a letdown. Luke enjoyed his bath and didn’t fuss too much at bed time.