Hanging Doors

 This is  the new house 

 Back yard 

 Back yard 

 All our trees are Live Oaks

The new doors 

All day long hanging the new doors in the house has left me tired this morning. Back and forth from the shop must have put several miles on these twigs of mine and now I am sore and not wanting to do anything today. But as luck would have it I really need to work in the shop cleaning it up and getting ready to install my work benches.
I will be using some of the old doors I pulled out for work benches in the shop. They wont be the heavy duty work benches I had in my last shop but they will afford me to assemble some projects on them and provide a place to lay some tools while working.
I also have some shelves to install on the opposite wall for storage. I have so many jigs and what not items that I have to have a place to store them. The shelves are the ones I had in my old shop and all I need is the brackets to install them with. The shelves themselves are the inexpensive part...the brackets...well they are the costly part so I may be a while in getting those.
Now all I have to do is work up the energy to start cleaning and building! Maybe this cup of coffee and some toast will get me going here...

Somewhere in Time

At 5:30

Yes I do get up early. I have all my life. Never been one to sleep in as some put it. I have always had a full plate and it always took most of the day to get it all behind me.
When I worked a full time job I had to get up early to get to work on time. Seems like every job I ever had was at least 1 1/2 hour from the house. Go figure... Then when I got a job that was close to the house I traveled so I still had to get up early.
Early is good for me. I have time to post in my journal and read some others. I do read most all the journals that post often. Some of you have dropped off the face of the planet so I can't read about you. Some have switched over to Facebook so I can see that you are still alive. But then who am I to talk. I dropped out of site when we  gave up our air card and then when we travel we do get into some areas where we did not get service.
We are planning on getting away for some time when Spring Break gets here. Kris being in school now keeps us close to home but once we get our house where we want it we will be back on the road to see some places. Still have plans on Colorado this summer but then we might change our mind for some other destination.
By the way I took some pictures of the new trailer but they came out so bad I scrapped them. My camera needs a new battery and it wont charge up so as soon as I get that fixed I promise that I will have some pictures of our new digs.
I hear Sherri stirring in the house so I will call it a day and join her for some hot coffee here...

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Bright and early morning

The old train is on display in Childress

I'm sitting at the dinning room table with my computer and listening to the train coming  through town. It brought back memories when I was a small child in Childress Texas. I use to be in bed at night and I could hear the locomotive come through town blowing it's whistle. I loved that sound then and love it today.
We can actually see the train when it comes into town from the West side. We have several trains a day and many times get stuck behind one when passing through town.
Yesterday was a work day for us both. Sherri painting and me hanging the new raised panel doors. The original doors to the house were the contractors doors that had been stained. Since they were in stalled the trim in the house had been painted an off white so the doors did not go with any of the other trim?
Not one of the jambs were plumbed correctly so they all fit catywhompus. All the doors shut and latch so I won't be taking them out to correct it. I have plenty to do and adding to my list is not going to happen.
I have 6 more doors to mortise and then I can move onto the next project...which is the ice maker hook up. I don't know where they got the stop for the ice maker hookup but it is a thread size never heard of by anyone around these parts. I need it reduced down to a 1/4 inch but I can't find a thread for the other end?? So this means I have to cut a whole in the sheetrock and cut the pipe off...put on another stop with the correct connection on it and then patch the whole back!

OK so with that all said I guess I better get me another cup of coffee and a biscuit. I have a long day a head of me...

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Global Warming is killing me

Yesterday, Sherri and I got out to get some needed items for the house and some groceries to feast on. When I opened the door to go out and board the diesel chariot I was met with a blast of cold air that shrunk my shorts up! My gosh it was 15 degrees and the wind chill was -20!!! OH yes it was cold. I don't mind the cold....30's but when it gets down into the teens!!
We trucked on anyway being the hardy shoppers we are. One thing about it there was not too many people out at the stores. We got in and out of line without the wait that usually occurs on nice shopping days. I really don't like all the pushing and shoving that goes on while your trying to reach out and pick up a jar of peanut butter. How many times do you have to say excuse me while rolling your squeaky...one tire flat buggy down the isle that by the way does not steer.
We...by the way are shopping for our new home. This means that we have to go down every isle and search into every corner of every home store in a 50 mile radius. Sherri has done real well with buying and putting together a real nice look through out the new pad. Now don't forget we are also furnishing and decorating our new trailer...which by the way I will try to have some photos for all to see.
This has kept us both real busy so I am lacking in getting new picts on line for everyone. We have been spending so much time in the stores and painting...OH and don't forget we had  to move!
It will all come together soon and I will be caught back up on reading and posting. Until that time stick around and I will try to keep you up to date on all the goings on in our lives here...

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What is it with the Grammys???

I don't know about the rest of you but I am still trying to figure out what is going on with all of this? I must have gone to sleep and woke up in another time zone but I just don't remember the Grammys of old posting pictures of aliens dressed up as singers and songwriters.
I understand the younger generation wanting to make a statement but there are still those of us who appreciate a dress code of sorts.
What is going to happen to the red carpet reviews from now on. I am sorry but I am just a little short of words to even ask the questions.
And then the marriage ceremony conducted by Queen Latefa?  I slid out of the recliner when that segment on the show got underway. I am sorry but what in the world does that have to do with songs and songwriters. They got a bigger send off than Phil Everly! I am just aghast at what went on.
I am looking forward to the CMA's to see what they have to offer up. I may just be watching reruns of Cold Case...

Somewhere in Time  

A week of sickness

Yes this past week I have been ailing from...maybe the flu? I have no idea. I did not have usual symptoms of the flu but I felt like someone had jabbed me in the gut!
I still am not feeling real spry but I do feel some what better. Enough to plan a trip to the lake to get some of my tools out of my shop. I have several projects here at the house that requires me to use tools. Sherri has me lined out for some time on inside things to do. This is good due to the cold weather we have been having.
The other night the temps were to fall into the teens. I had to make a trip out the RV to drain the HWH. This of course was when I was not feeling my best. Everything out there is cold weather ready but now I need to go out there and stay for the day and it sure would be nice to have some water!!
Texas weather...so unpredictable!

Interior doors to be changed out.
Kitchen to be opened up into the den
Gutters to be installed
Work bench in the garage to be made
Outdoor patio to be constructed

Yes all this...

Somewhere in Time

Hanging around the house

The morning started out with coffee and the usual Sherri playing her games on line and me reading journals. The weather was going to be nice today so after coffee I headed out to the garage to work on getting it cleaned up and ready for my work bench which I will be building. I have a whole barn full of woodworking tools that will need to be brought over and I have to have somewhere to stow all the odds and ends I have.
This is just one of the many projects I have to do before the real hot summer weather moves in. I want all the exhausting jobs done before the temps go up.
We started painting the living room and the entry this past weekend. It is hard to cover the peach color. It was a satin finish and we are going over it with a flat, which makes it that much harder to cover.
Our furniture will be here this week and we want to have the painting all done before that. I bought me a 7ft ladder from Wally World to paint the vaulted ceiling in the living room. I don't look forward to being up that high but it has to be done.
The kids bought me a 50 inch TV for my birthday. WOW is it cool or what! I can sit there in the den on one side and see the TV all the way across the room. It is also a 3d TV! Talk about neat!
OK nuff said this morning I need to get started on the next project before its time to hit the hay...

Somewhere in Time

Sherri is gone shopping

I wont be using green but I will be painting 

While Sherri was out shopping with her sister in law I stayed at home and caught up on some journal reading. That did not take that long so I watched a little TV which I don't normally have time to do during the day.
Really over all it was a do nothing day so that is exactly what I did....nothing.
We are slowly moving into the house now. Like I said Sherri is out looking at furniture and all kinds of homey stuff. We went out the other day and ended up with more stuff for the RV than we did for the house. Go figure!
Our truck will not fit in the garage. All the garages I have ever built were 24 foot by that again and you could get a truck in them. Not this one. I guess with all the little compact cars now days they don't build them that large anymore. Oh well we might take in the laundry room and then we can get the truck in there. We would still have room for a stacking washer dryer combination on the other side of the laundry room that we don't use. This will be a project down the road.
Painting is our big thing now. Seems like the couple that owned this house before us was from Florida. They like the peach colors down there and that is what they painted the insides here. Not that we don't like peach it is just too much, So much of our time will be taken up painting the house.
I have several things outside I need to do but they will have to wait until the weather warms up.
For now I will just wait for Sherri to return and see what great bargains she has found out there...

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We closed today

We are at the closing 

We closed on the house today. Sure hated to see all that money go out of our account! Oh well we sure got a lot in return.

There is so much for us to get we just don't know where to begin. I am sure Sherri will know where and what so I will just leave it all up to her. 

I will spend all my time getting the RV ready and she can tend to the house. I kind of laugh when I went on
Craigslist to sale all my hitches. After 13 different RV's over the years I have every kind of hitch in my garaged waiting to be sold. I just think of the money we spent buying all these hitches and having them installed. Now they are all for sale and we are back to our original hitch we bought for our second trailer we owned. We have made a full cycle in our lives and we are back to where we began. 

This weekend I will get some pictures of our newest RV and post them on our Journal.

 Hall bath

 Kitchen

 Kitchen

 Dinning

 Den

 Master

Kris's bedroom

Back to the house...we are going to change some things...LOL. Sherri wants to open up the kitchen to the living area. This is what they call the Open Concept? There is so much we have to do this may have to go on the back burner until we get the money to do it...

Somewhere in Time

We close on the house this week

The time is near and we are excited about closing on the new house. Kris loves the backyard and is ready for a soccer game back there. We have a fenced yard so we can contain the wild kicks that seem to always happen when we practice our game.
Sherri is more excited about changing the color inside and buying furniture to fill all the rooms. It will be nice to have place to sit when watching TV. After living in the RV for 7 years we have lost all our furniture to the kids and garage sales so it is time to head to the furniture store.
On top of decorating the house we are decorating the new trailer. Oh yes that all has to be done too. We have been living in it without matching bedspreads and dishes!!! I just can't see how we can go on without some new things for it too!!! LOL
I started pricing the hitch for the trailer and was shocked to see how much a hitch for a trailer cost!!! I had a trailer back in the 70's and a hitch for it was somewhere I just could not remember where we had stowed it away. It came to me later that maybe I had left it in my brother-in-laws barn out at the lake. Sure nuff after digging around in the barn I found the hitch...equalizer bars and the sway control!! What luck! That should save me a ton of money.
OK we have our week pretty much cut out for us. Paint to buy...furniture...and lord knows what else we have to have.
I guess it will all work out...

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We got the house

We got it and now we just have to dot the i's and cross the t's and we can move in! Needless to say Sherri is very excited about all this and she is now in hyper shop for furniture. I will have to go along to put in my two cents worth which will be ignored and then we will get what she wants.
I sure wanted a recliner like I had in the Carrie lite. I sure did love that chair. Man could I sleep in that recliner! I'm pulling for a recliner but Sherri is not real hot on that?
The RV does not have a chair in it but a J-Sofa. By the way I need to get some pictures of the RV and put them on the journal. I will be working on this coming week...

Somewhere in Time