Nice Weekend

When I got home from church today, Bill was almost done watering trees.  We still haven't had any rain so they're saying to keep watering plants until it rains or freezes.  We're hoping this is the last time.  Today is a warm, breezy day. 

The chicken wire is working for the evergreen trees but the back two rows of austrees have more damage.  Bill may end up putting an electric fence around them.

Bill is working on leveling out his rock.

He helped me put some fresh greenery on our front porch railing.  There are little white lights with it.  We didn't let it drape down since we'll probably have wind before Christmas.  The Dec. P.E.O. meeting is here on the 11th so I'm doing a little extra decorating this year (and better get going on it!).

We had a nice Gemutlichkeit Luncheon yesterday in Humboldt with my friend Terri and her mom.  I took lots of pictures for a blog post.  The bride at the wedding later in the day looked like a blond Barbie doll, and the old Rolfe gym was decorated like a Winter Wonderland with lots of white trees and sparkly snowflakes, silver and blues.  It was amazing.  

Today in Rolfe is Hometown Christmas.  Bill will be driving the fire truck that takes Santa to it!   I'm going to help sell the Sesquicentennial cookbooks there.

   
 

Machine Shed Update

It appears that I've fixed the blog picture storage problem now - by paying a monthly fee.  :(  Blogger used to be free. 

The building crew has been working on the inside of the roof this week.  On Monday they had to put up some plastic over the south door area to keep the wind from blowing through since they're working with big, sharp, pieces of steel.  They should be finished up by Mon.  The overhead door guys will be here next week and the electrician. 

I keep waiting for the important part to be added - the shutters!  

Bill has started spreading his 30 loads of rock.  He started out using our skid loader but that was going to take many trips so he's borrowed the dairy's pay loader.

Bill's dumping a load but he's behind the skid loader.

I'm headed to the basement to work in my craft room.  Need to make a sympathy card for today, a tag, two birthday cards and a wedding card for tomorrow.

Update

I found out that I can either pay a small monthly fee for more picture storage to continue the blog or delete old pictures in two places and/or only post the small size pictures.  I've edited some recent pictures and made them smaller.  That is time consuming.   

After getting back from Thanksgiving in Indiana, we've had a busy week, but I do have some new pictures of the machine shed and will post them tomorrow (Fri.).

We have another funeral visitation to go to tomorrow evening.  Our fire chief's mother passed away yesterday.  

Then we're looking forward to going to the Gemutlichkeit Luncheon Sat.!  Last year, when we went for the first time, my camera was acting up and I didn't get any pictures for the blog so hope to this year!  After that, a wedding Sat. evening.

Blog Problems

Just home tonight from a trip to Indiana with Diane & girls for Thanksgiving at Mom's with Glenn, Rob, Ross, and Reed.  Have found, the past couple of days, that I have reached some sort of photo limit with Google for this blog.  I have no idea what that means so will have to ask others who use Blogger.  In the meantime, I can post just words - but that won't be very fun.

Will see what I find out in the next couple of days.

Convention in Des Moines

Last week, Bill and I went to Des Moines for his yearly Pocahontas Mutual Insurance Convention.  We got there on Sun. evening.  All of the Board of Directors plus wives went out to Johnny's Italian Steakhouse that night.  Our room overlooked the pool and area where the vendors' tables were and where the President's Reception and breakfasts were.  

Monday during the day and Tues. I went shopping at two nice malls in Des Moines while Bill was at the convention.  Monday night there is always a dinner and entertainment.  This year the band was Philip Myers and his band.  They played mostly Billy Joel and Elton John songs.  Luckily, I didn't have breakfast or lunch at the hotel on Tues.!

Phillip Myers and band

I even got to see Santa!  It's always good to get some Christmas shopping done on this trip.  I enjoyed the pretty decorations, the Christmas music and it was nice that there were very few shoppers.

 

Huge Stampin' Up! Sale ! !

Today is the beginning of a big Stampin' Up! sale!!  Please go to my web site to see all the details (top right).  Be sure to use the Shop Now button from my web site.  If you shop directly from the SU! web site, you will pay higher shipping and not receive all of your benefits if you've earned free product with your order!  Click HERE to see the list!  There will be different things on sale on different days so check back on my SU! web site often!  You can either shop 24/7 from there or e mail me with your order.  This is a great time for friends to place an order together and receive Hostess benefits!