April is here, car, visitors, bridge.
First off I finally settled with the insurance co, and have my payment for the car. They paid me the $5000, no buy back, no salvage title, no deductible. As soon as my car is ready, I can just put the plates back on and drive it away. I would have held out for more, but after looking at the car and driving it, I am keeping it, and the repairs will be less than the settlement. I can't wait to have it back. The truck has been great, but it's steadily getting warmer, and I need the AC for Andre.
My sister and niece arrived last Monday the 6th and left on on Sat the 11th. The week prior was pretty much consumed with guest prep, and trying to get some work done around here. I got a bit more work done on my trail, and worked on filling the hole in the creek crossing.
When my guests got here we had a very lovely week, poor Sophia did go down with food poisoning from the restaurant we ate at after their arrival, but thankfully was only sick for less than a day. We spent the first couple of days of their visit here on the farm, and then the next on outings. I finally got to see War Eagle Cavern, and it was beautiful. LOTS of pipistrelle bats, and a lovely cave. It sits on a very scenic branch off of beaver lake. Looking at the bats, they are the same type as in my cave. I loved how the owners were so solicitous of the bats, they seem very conscientious caretakers of their cave.
On Friday we went over to Eureka Springs, and I was treated to an early birthday lunch, and a pair of new kitchen tools! It was an absolutely beautiful day, and after dinner we went for a walk up to the high pasture and watched the sunset.
On Saturday I took them to the airport. On the way we stopped at a vintage market and a quilt show. Of the two, I think I enjoyed the quilt show more, the vintage market was a bit of a disappointment after all the hype it got.
Saturday I did a kitchen purge of the vast pile of leftovers and just generally put the house back in order. Yesterday I finished filling in the creek crossing, so I could go and brush hog the rest of the barn pasture and get the lawn mower mounted on the tractor. As always I felt somewhat guilty mowing down all the small trees in the pasture, but I do have some I've left to grow, and they are healthier for not being crowded. Getting the attachments swapped was the usual PITA, but less than I feared given my less than active winter and spring. I guess I haven't deteriorated too much, I slung around my sister's 55lb suitcase without much problem.
I am back in the middle of the bridge wars. I noticed that the concrete on the bridge had eroded off the second layer down to the clay fill, so I sent a letter to the commission troll, and over the winter he had apparently just decided to go ahead and fight me, after seeming to agree to a compromise last fall. So be it.
My sister and niece arrived last Monday the 6th and left on on Sat the 11th. The week prior was pretty much consumed with guest prep, and trying to get some work done around here. I got a bit more work done on my trail, and worked on filling the hole in the creek crossing.
When my guests got here we had a very lovely week, poor Sophia did go down with food poisoning from the restaurant we ate at after their arrival, but thankfully was only sick for less than a day. We spent the first couple of days of their visit here on the farm, and then the next on outings. I finally got to see War Eagle Cavern, and it was beautiful. LOTS of pipistrelle bats, and a lovely cave. It sits on a very scenic branch off of beaver lake. Looking at the bats, they are the same type as in my cave. I loved how the owners were so solicitous of the bats, they seem very conscientious caretakers of their cave.
On Friday we went over to Eureka Springs, and I was treated to an early birthday lunch, and a pair of new kitchen tools! It was an absolutely beautiful day, and after dinner we went for a walk up to the high pasture and watched the sunset.
On Saturday I took them to the airport. On the way we stopped at a vintage market and a quilt show. Of the two, I think I enjoyed the quilt show more, the vintage market was a bit of a disappointment after all the hype it got.
Saturday I did a kitchen purge of the vast pile of leftovers and just generally put the house back in order. Yesterday I finished filling in the creek crossing, so I could go and brush hog the rest of the barn pasture and get the lawn mower mounted on the tractor. As always I felt somewhat guilty mowing down all the small trees in the pasture, but I do have some I've left to grow, and they are healthier for not being crowded. Getting the attachments swapped was the usual PITA, but less than I feared given my less than active winter and spring. I guess I haven't deteriorated too much, I slung around my sister's 55lb suitcase without much problem.
I am back in the middle of the bridge wars. I noticed that the concrete on the bridge had eroded off the second layer down to the clay fill, so I sent a letter to the commission troll, and over the winter he had apparently just decided to go ahead and fight me, after seeming to agree to a compromise last fall. So be it.