Changes have been happening the last few months, and I habe not kept up with my journal to chronicle them very well. So, here is a quick run through some of the highlights.
Katrina and I became grandparents a little over two months ago when Dylan’s Wynn was born. They were unsure if Whitney was in false labor or the real thing, so we went over and quickly decided that they needed to be at the hospital to be sure. After driving them down to Logan, the contractions were inside three minutes, but her water had not broke. They broke it and she delivered Wynn by 4:30 The following morning. He was three weeks early, but has overcome his troubles and is growing fast, and well.
Grandma is deteriorating. She is getting more forgetful than she was, and having trouble making sound decisions. I always said that with David, as his dementia progressed, he was really the same, only intensified, or in concentrated form. She is doing the same thing now. We mostly go to the same places every time I take her out. That is the same as before, but she takes longer at them. We habe spent three of the last four Fridays at Verizon. She has bought a phone, tried it, forgot parts to it when she went to return it, then given it to someone who works at the rest home, even though she is still paying for its cost, not the line, just the phone. Same stuff as before, only more intensified.
Kirynie turned 9. That kid is such a treasure to me! She is so smart, and despite some of her proclivities to be a bit obnoxious to her sister, and to feel sorry for herself, shenis a wonderful child! She is very helpful with feeding the animals, and she reads a lot.
Colvin turned 19 on the same day. I have not seen him in so long, since that day… My world fell apart. I hope that he has grown to be a good man. I wt would like it if he came to me, and on his terms. I never met my dad, and never was able to set terms for that. I know how it feels, and need him to make his move, if, and when he is ready. I understand.
The farm is coming along pretty well. There are things I am happy with, and some things I am not, but we habe made such progress on getting things in place for the animals we raise. Yes, there is still more to do, a lot more, but the place is coming along and may one day actually be our own. That would be very weird! I built the last animal pen, and need to build shelters and the like now to improve the situation for our little ones.
We have totally paused the indoor work so we could focus outside. So nothing has happened inside, but I suspect we will get moving just as soon as the weather cools a bit. It has been in the mid to upper 90’s out, and we have no cooling. Most of the house is usually hot, especially upstairs.
Those are some of the basics of what has been going on around here. We always have more planned, but need to start looking at what needs to be finished for winter. One is the firewood! I have not been up into the mountains yet, and need to get up there and order to chop down some of that Maple I’ve been planning on collecting. I also need to split a lot of Cottonwood that I had cut down earlier in the year but has been too wet to split so far. I did build a place to hold the firewood over winter where I can place a tarp over it and keep it dry unless I’m able to get a roof built over it, which I hope to do next year if not this. It was a simple build, just using pallets and placing them in a grid on the ground, then using some more to build sides to hold the wood in. That will give me plenty of places to tie a tarp down if I need to, and it will hold several cords of wood. If I stack all the wood only to the top of the pallets, I should be able to fit four and a half chords just in this future Woodshed of mine.
Missus has come up with a great idea for The Granary. I had suggested she use it as a store and sell her arts and crafts and such from there, but she looked into the idea of using it as an Air BnB. If we do that, then we should be able to use the money we make to improve it until it has all the functionality we would like as both a bunkhouse for our visitors, and a few utilities for ourselves, such as maybe a deck and a fire pit and a little kitchenette that we can use during canning season. It’s certainly a good idea, and something to think about. I think we just might do it.
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