Sun Is Shining

It's beautiful today in Grandview. We really needed the rain, but it is also nice after a week of rain to see the sun again. It's presently 69 degrees with only high, light clouds. During the cold, I burned up all the firewood on hand so today Drew and I went down and cut a truck load. I just got through splitting all of the larger pieces. It probably won't be cold enough now to need any more, but I guess that will be okay too.

Emily has gone with Rachel and Dominick to Dallas today. Dom is having a checkup on his legs at Scottish Rite Hospital. Drew and I went to Grandview and got a hamburger for lunch. Last wednesday it warmed up enough to get in the attic and check on the central heat. I found the problem and called Robert and he had the part that I needed. Emily and I rode to Burleson to get the part and visited with Robert and Carol for an hour or so. Came home and put the part in and everything works fine now. Last Saturday, Emily, Rebecca, Drew and I went to On The Border in Burleson to have mexican food.

We ordered our perscriptions and they will be sent to Grandview so we will be here for a little while longer. I think that Emily will also have to schedule a visit with the doctor while we are here. If the weather stays nice, we can get a few jobs done that the kids need.

Cold And Rainy In Grandview

We're still in Grandview and the weather continues to be cold and miserable. We had a good weekend with the kids. We had barbeque at Rebecca's house on Saturday and everyone was there. We played cards and had a good time. Sunday afternoon we all got together again and Rebecca and Rachel both cooked roast and potatoes. We played Chicken-Foot dominos and had a good time. The kids have all gone back to work and school now so we are just by ourselves. The weather is warming up from what it was over the weekend, but it is still cold and dreary. The central heat in the old house has gone out so I have used up all of the available firewood trying to stay warm (my internet is in the old house). I plan to get in the attic this afternoon (if it gets warm enough) and see if I can find out what is wrong with the heater.

I just found a little more firewood, so maybe the heater urgency is reduced. I do enjoy sitting in front of the fireplace with my wireless internet. Listening to Rush streamed live from KPRC in Houston. Life is good.

Back In Grandview - Again

After a couple more weeks in Huntsville, we have returned to Grandview. When we got hitched up to leave yesterday, it was too wet for the truck to pull the trailer out so we had to call our emergency road service to send a tow truck to pull us out. When we got to Grandview it was getting very cold so we maybe should have gone south. We will probably stay here for a few days and then go somewhere south for a while.

We got quite a lot more jobs done in Huntsville. We repaired the rotten boards on the back porch roof, patched the roof leaks on the house, built a porch on the "new motel room", replaced the front brakes on Floye's car and Marshall's truck, and fixed the pressure washer that belongs to the water arobics instructer. Time now to sit and rest and read. I really do miss my high-speed internet when we are on the road. We went up to El Chico in Huntsville the other night and sat in their parking lot to pick up their wireless signal.

Here are a few pictures of some of the Huntsville projects.

Back In Grandview

We are back in grandview for a few days after spending the last 5 or 6 weeks with Marshall and Floye in Huntsville. I could have been posting from there, but was really too tired every night to do it. We had a good visit. Rebecca and family went down to Huntsville with us after Christmas. They stayed about a week and then had to return to school and work.

We got several projects completed while there. We added a bathroom to the bedroom in the add-on to the shed. Since it would take much longer than it's worth to explain all of this I will not attempt it here. Drew came back for and few days and helped with the sheetrock work. Next we fixed Marshall's air compressor. Then we repaired some water damage on the back porch. In between the projects, we put a water pump on Janet and Micheal's Explorer.

Bruce and Cheryl Foss from North Dakota called to tell us that they were in Houston. We invited them to come to Huntsville which they did. They stayed two days and we had a good visit. They were the first guests in the new "Motel Room". Greg and Dawn and girls came on two different occations while we were there and we enjoyed visiting with them.

Caitlyn, Carly, Miranda and Dominick all had basketball and soccer games this weekend so we left the trailer in Huntsville and came home for the weekend. We will probably go back tomorrow or Monday and do a couple of little jobs and then pull the trailer back to Grandview for a few more days visit. After that, we want to go somewhere farther south and just relax for a while. Hopefully we will be where there is good internet service and we can keep up to date on our posting.