Worked on our room, and today Rio Linda Tractor Days and a new additon!!!

Our curtains in the kitchen...not a very good pic..

Storm coming in...was great!

Our bedroom color..never had green b4 but i'm liking it!

Slept in the kids room last night..great..window open and this am at 0400
we saw incredible stars and a falling star!

Ken teaching Adam to drive tractor...

Ken on our new additon!

Hopefully one day ours will look like this!

Our new purchase!!!!!!

I worked on Friday on our bedroom, painting, but not quite finished. Trim on Tues probably as we are headed for CA for the weekend.  KC our friend called and told us there is a tractor out at Tractor Days Rio Linda, that we just HAVE to buy...well, honestly if KC is telling us this it's probably true as he really does know our tastes.

We got up this am (5/11) went into town and had a nice breakfast and then headed to CA..stopped in Georgetown and picked up Adam and headed to Rio Linda...the tractor was $950 and KC got him to take $850 cash..so a quick stop at the bank and on to Tractor Days.  This was an event I worked for years, it was my favorite event of the year and now no one from the Sheriff's Dept works it and hasn't since I retired...sad..no community oriented policing anymore, as far as I am concerned...

Anyway....loved the tractor..a 1940 Allis Chalmers and it runs...of course after we bought it Ken took me for a ride, then I was going to drive, we're trading places and it dies...yes we are stuck in the 90+ degree heat in the sun waiting for a tow..we got one, bad gas and the filter was horribly plugged..got back and had a great day,...Ken did get the tractor running again, and drives like a dream! Even though it was hotter than Hell................picked up some Chinese food from Amys in Rio Linda...yummm and headed to the Days Inn in Rocklin...not too impressed as I asked for 1st floor and didn't get it...of course it looks like 1st floor people are of Iranian descent..hmmmmmmmm...

Working on the guest bedroom...looking good and ready for company!

Before.....ugly patio rock linoleum..

Mom and Daddy's hutch...first thing he bought her when we came
to CA in 1963..they gave it to us when we bought our house in
1973..been with us ever since! Can't imagine a home without
this hutch!!

View of the closet and some pics! Mom and Daddy watching over all of us!

Another view...but the bed is ready for company!!! 

Another view of the hutch!

Before we put the furniture in.....

Today was concentrated on the guest bedroom and cleaning up some stuff in the living room.  Ken went to town for a few things and I went through several containers in the living room..to see what to keep and what to get rid of..

Ken put the mini blinds up in the guest room and then because we're pretty much done we moved furniture into the guest room..made the bed up and added some pictures..looking good, not quite done yet as we need the buffet we had in Colfax and a little bench I bought at a garage sale in Idaho with my mom when we went there for Uncle Vernon and Aunt Freda's 50th wedding anniversary, several years ago as the 2002 Chevy seemed pretty new.  

We put Mom and Daddy's hutch in the bedroom.  This was really the first piece of furniture that Daddy bought my mom when we moved to CA in 1963..When Ken and I bought our first house on Pershing Ave in 1973 they gave it to us and it has found a home in every home we've bought since..can't imagine a home without it!! 

Tomorrow I 'm going to finish my curtains in the kitchen and then we decided to take a break and go try out the 2nd Mexican Restaurant in town...hopefully then get ready to paint our bedroom, even though it may have to wait till after Mother's day as we'll be in CA..Our little home is really coming together...love it!!

Groceries, homemade pizza and making curtains and finishing up the guest room...

Got up and did our usual stuff...got the day started by running to Scolaris in town for just one or two things..well we know how that goes!  Ken worked on the moulding again in the guest room, put up the curtain tie backs and the door moulding..frustrating for him again!  Same problem when he did the boys room.  

I worked most of the afternoon on the curtains for the kitchen.  The material is so slippery we'll see how they turned out today.  We're going to get the master bedroom ready to paint tomorrow.  

One of our neighbors, Anna invited us over for Friday evening, to get to meet some of our neighbors..How nice! So 1700 we'll head over there for a bit.  

I tripped/fell off the ladder the other day painting, tripped over the fan cord and hit the floor using my knee as a buffer...swollen and painful but nothing broken..thank goodness..

Finishing painting and putting stuff in the kitchen! Wild weather in Yerington, NV!

And another...love it!!

Just another area of kitchen

Some of my goodies!

Same pic after! I am in love!

Before pic...not bad...

After a good night's sleep and breakfast got started on the kitchen.  Got alot done yesterday, but today was fill in and touch up time.  Looks really good! Love the yellow and white theme and tomorrow I will start on making the red and white checked curtains.  Ken worked on the guest room moulding he went to town and got some liquid nail and attached the moulding.  He put up door #1 for the closet and tomorrow door #2.  He changed the oil in my car and we both enjoyed the day!  

What a difference a couple of gallons of paint makes!  It is a small kitchen but I really love the way it turned out!  

All day it threatened to rain and by late afternoon, we had it all, thunder, lightning, wind and lots of rain! Beautiful!  Good for our trees..now the sun is shining and the wind has died down! Gotta love the weather in NV!

Painting the kitchen and working on the guest bedroom...

The original floor in the guest room and the floor Ken is putting in!!
What a difference! Wait till u see the end result!

My view from my kitchen window!  Ken fixed it so he can take it down every night!

Had a productive day yesterday in Reno and Carson City.  Went by RC Willey for their parking lot sale which was something else..but no box springs, which was ok we found that their regular price is $100.00 so we'll probably go back next week and grab one.  Saw a couch I really liked except it was a sleeper and we really don't need one (or we think we don't)...but it appears the parking lot sale is really the way to go..we were looking at the couch and the salesman says I can give it to you for $499 and the price was $599...great way to go.  

We went to Home Depot and looked at front doors, as we found that we need a bigger door in order to get the kitchen table in the door!   So we'll be getting a new front door in the near future.  Got our paint for the bedroom..yay..and did some grocery shopping..We thought we'd go to Chili's for lunch but it got to be too late and then there was no parking, so had a sandwich at Port o Subs...no more..just not good quality, very cheap made sandwiches.  

Got home about 1700...and just vegged after that.

May 5th...got up and then got ready to start the day, I put a stew in the crockpot and then we got started..Ken worked on the trim and door of the guest bedroom, as because he put the floor in he had to cut the doors on the closet.. I painted the kitchen, not quite done, but it is sure looking good! Pics tomorrow when it's done!  

Ken put our American Flag out...it looks so good!  He used the implement we bought from our friend K.C. and it's flying high and proud! Love it!!  He also got the fan in the guest bedroom fixed..u couldn't use it as it was wobbling so bad...but Ken fixed it!!

Another couple days in Yerington...

Thursday, we spent the day unloading the trailer and I went through some of the containers to see what treasures lurked there that i forgot about...Ken did his stuff outside so we got most everything unloaded but the mattress. 

Friday, Ken worked on the floor in the guest room and got it all laid!  Beautiful!  I worked around the house and then did a little taping off in the kitchen, thinking I'm going to try and paint on Sunday or Monday.  End of the week we'll head back to CA for Mother's Day.  

I'll post pics later Sat.  We are heading to Reno this am to get the trim for the room and i'm hoping to get some paint for our room.  

Problems with the slide on the 23 footer...home in Yerington now!

Our load going home to Yerington....

My chandelier I wish I could use...Hector gave me this years ago...

Love this!

May 1st...ahhhhhh...can't believe it's May 1st...gonna be Christmas before we know it!  Got up this morning and took our time and got ready to leave...well the slide on the 23 footer wouldn't work...would go out but not in...so Ken had to get under it and use some tools and inch it in..finally...so next time we get it out should be here in Yerington, where it will stay as a guest house for visitors!...  

Went to town, had a nice Chinese lunch, got our drugs and Ken went to Walmart, and we headed home...about 3 hours and 15 minutes...love it!!!

Posting a pic to see if Cheryl wants this chandelier...Hector gave it to me, probably from the late 1800's or early 1900's...love it,  but don't  think I have a place here for it...we used it at the Rockwell house for many years...we actually left it there and told them if they ever got rid of it we would like to have it...and the wife, Shirley, brought it to me at the service center when I was working...would love to see them have it and love it as much as we did...but if not..we'll find something else for it!