garden box for Jessica and Heather

I have been digging out the gravel from the old horse water trough riser of the last several days. Today I got it basically finished up and cut the framework and moved it over to the girls yard.

They want to make a raised bed garden out of it. We'll empty out the big buckets they used this year to fill it up.
 

Freezer is full again

Heather and I went to Flemingsburg this morning and picked up half of Ralphie, about 460 pounds. The freezers are full again!

A day at Kings Island

We went to Kings Island over last weekend and had a good time. It's an amusement park in Ohio that is heavy on roller coasters. Blake & Emily also went, as did Wyatt & Chelsea, 

Quite a few of the ones we went on left you floating in your seat. 

The Beast is one of the wood coaters there and it held the record for  tallest and longest when it opened. It is still the longest wood coaster at over 5.000 feet. 
 

Trip to New Hampshire went well

 

I got back from taking Allen's excavator back to him. I stopped at Jay & Debbie's place in Pennsylvania going each way. It's a good halfway stopping point and I got to see some good friends. 

Camping trip to Carr Creek Lake State Park

We  went camping at Carr Creek Lake this week. They had to move our spot due to the website not informing us the site we picked out was for tents and not campers. The new spot was nice, too. 

There was a cool feature at the entrance to the park. It was a slow waterfall that just kind of ran down the rock face.

We both thought it was picture-worthy. I made a special trip early in the morning as the fog was lifting to get these shots. There were actually several spots that the water was coming from to make the face this wide.

Nature is quite persistent. The was several trees growing in the rock like this around the lake.

We took the kyacks out several times. Being that it was a week day, there wasn't much boat traffic except for us.

I tried fishing out of my kyack. It has a rod holder for it, but doing it works much better in your head than in real life. The rod holder is very much in the way when you try to paddle and stability is also an issue. I think I'll stick to the boat, for now.

Center drainage cleaned out

The drainage ditch between the girls place and mine is cleaned out and ready. I used the dirt that I dug out to extend the slope off the septic tank. It was still too steep to get the mower over it. Now I'll be able to mow it as needed.

Allen's excavator did a fine job. 

 The biggest inconvenience was jumping back and forth between the mower with the dump cart and the excavator. But this should take care of the drainage for several years, at least. 

Back bedroom floor complete

I got the new floor put down last week, so it was now time for the next step.

Monday morning, Natalie and I got started with laying the carpet in the back bedroom. We put down the tack strips and got the padding cut, fitted and fastened down.

Blake came down and we started getting it cut to fit and stretched to hook it onto the tack strips. None of us have ever done this before, so it was a learning experience.

 For a first time, it came out pretty good! We started putting furniture back in, too. We have the bed and a nightstand in there already, and some wall decorations waiting to be put up.