Happy 23rd Birthday Adam! Working on the kitchen..winds stop progress!

 Today our oldest grandson, Adam turns 23! Another of "where does the time go?"

He went with us to Mule Days in Bishop, CA for about 10 years..he was probably 4 years old here 💙

We were headed to the July 4th parade in Colfax..he was 3 then..

He left here the other day for a solo trip down highway 395 to take some pictures and do a few hikes.  He texted this morning asking if he could come here as the weather was bad and it was cold. He was in the Lee Vining area. A few hours later he was here! 

I was making him some lemon bars. Guess I don't have enough practice at that as I ended up putting the ingredients for the center part in with the crust. Then I realized my mistake when I pulled out the other bag LOL. Oh well just put everything together and cooked it anyway. Still seemed to taste good. We shall see once he cuts into it. 😂 Update: they are delicious! Looking forward to one with coffee! 

The winds are up once again! Darn, today we were going to put the tin roof on the kitchen. Ken's been out working all day on the facia board and putting the rest of the screws and nails in the joist hangers and the other end. Looks good! 

Yesterday he got the rest of the corrugated metal up in the back and then all the joists up along with the boards that will go across for the metal roofing to sit on and be nailed to. 

The back..

Looking inside 

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Blurry but shows how a 10 foot by 15 foot flag was blowing with our winds!

Adam had 2 turkey burgers and then I put a couple of candles in his  lemon bars. Ken and I sang (hahaha) Happy Birthday to him. It's an early night and nothing to exciting for him but he said he enjoyed it.  

He'll head home to Chico tomorrow and on Sunday we'll head to his mom and dad's to spend a couple of days. Adam and Erin will visit on Sunday. 😋

Hopefully we can get a couple of pieces of tin up tomorrow before the winds hit..if not oh well, next week.  Have a great evening ! 

A nice fire and a pretty lazy Sunday!

Friday went exactly as planned. We headed for Carson City and got what we needed and more at Walmart...always happens that way doesn't it?  Then to Lowe's to get what we needed to make a flagpole for our new flag. For a little over 6 bucks we're thinking we'll have a nice pole so we can fly the flag. 

We saw this beautiful piece at the Smith's in Dayton..

No license plate, in need of some TLC..that roof is
custom made don't cha think..

Lunch at the Golden Dragon was delicious as always.  After that we headed home and enjoyed the late afternoon after getting home. 

Yesterday morning, after visiting with friends we slowly got the day going and I got into gathering the tax stuff and filling out the package our CPA sends. Really not that hard just figuring the medical and contributions takes the longest. Got it done early afternoon! Yay!  Good to go for another year. 

Ken loaded up our fire pit with wood for a fire yesterday evening. He called our neighbors John and Karen to see if they wanted to come over.  They love a good fire as much as we do so they brought over a couple of drinks and came to visit.  Karen's mom bought a house in town and then it basically got torn apart. She had a handyman working on it, but he left and hasn't been back in six weeks or so.  John is helping out but the place is a disaster at this point.  They had just gotten home from working over there all day, so we were really glad they wanted to come over. 

Loved this cloud last night

We visited for a couple of hours and then they went home. Ken and I sat out there for a while after and then the winds really picked up and we came inside. We called it a night and off to bed we went.  

Love our fire pit..

I woke up about 0530 this am and put the coffee on, woke Ken about 0600 and we did our usual morning routine. I made a couple of omelettes for breakfast and then some general cleaning.  About 1145 we headed to town to take a look at Karens mom's (Izzy) house.  OH my!  The whole place has been ripped apart and poor John has a hard task ahead of him. I can't even imagine. Wish I had pics, but didn't think it the right thing to do. When we did our house it was one room at a time, and that made the rest of the house livable. It's going to be awhile before Izzy can be  living in that house.  Right now she's staying with John and Karen. 

The sun was really lighting up the clouds..

Sand being stirred up by the winds..

We came back home and I made some hummus, veggie wraps for lunch.  After that I went out to the trailer, made the bed and put a few things away. The wind is still howling! So now we're having a lazy, very lazy afternoon. 

Hope you're enjoying your Sunday as we are..