Slow Going

Hey all!

I know that it has been a while since we posted so I thought that I would give you an update. The garden has been an abundant blessing. We are getting a bunch of Zucchini, green beans cucumbers and tomato's on a weekly basis. our corn didn't fare very well though. we got about a quarter of a crop. The ears didn't develop very well and some of the ears had worms eating the tops of them. No more seed from cheap ole Wal-Mart. Next year I'm going to have to use some fertilizer and pesticide a bit. I don't have the time to do it organically due to being on the road so much. I cook down tomatoes every weekend and run them through a food mill, then freeze the juice. when I have a bunch frozen I will cook it all down and make spaghetti sauce out of it and can it. My mom and I made pickles, sweet and dill, I cut some sideways and made stacker's out of them. Man was that good! We had grilled hamburgers last weekend and I put some stacker's on mine! Better than vlasic I swear! My mom pickled some zucchini and they taste just like sweet pickles! I have a lot of pictures from the garden but don't have them uploaded yet. I swear I will share them before Christmas Ha Ha!

On the home front, not a lot has been done on the remodeling lately other than we got the counter top. Its not installed yet, just sitting up there. It looks really nice except for one small problem. They or I got the measurements wrong and one end is too long. Not a big problem as my carpenter says to just buy a good high speed blade for the saw and a couple of end pieces and he will cut it to fit himself. hopefully if all goes well, we will have it installed next weekend.

work has been killing me lately and that is a good thing. In trucking you beg for more work and it has been slow of late, hence the slow pace at remodeling. Freight is picking up so I feel that we will be moving ahead a bit more soon. We decided not to finish out the dinning room and kitchen until we get the living room at the same point that those two rooms are at. Basically getting all three rooms done to the point of needing flooring and trim and finishing out all three at once. That way we don't have to worry about paint spills on new floors.

Kim is a bit under the weather so I don't know when I will get some pictures up. Stay tuned.

Peace