Some more barn cleaning

Mom picking up some of the pieces that fell off the old pallets I took out of the barn and stacked up on Heather's truck.

Just the dirt floor still remains in the barn.We still have to find someone to scrape it out for us.

I wish I could have gotten the doors to open a little wider.

Looking down into the well, we were surprised to see a pipe about 4 feet down. It looks like an old inlet from somebody's house, but as far as I know, the well isn't being used. We did pull some out today to water the garden.

Mom on the lake

We had a beautiful day out on Cave Run Lake today. The sun was out and it was hot.

Mom had a nice time. The water was warm, but I was the only one who jumped in. She did get her feet wet, though.

There were a lot of boats and people out today, but that was expected.

A beautiful day at the lake

The view coming into the northern end of Cave Run Lake. This is near Scott Creek in case anybody wants to know. The dam is the very end of the lake. It is the Licking River when it flows past here.

It is an impressive structure. Water depth in this end here is around 50-60 feet.

This cove is across from the the dam. When the fish stopped biting, I jumped in for a swim. The water was so nice, I didn't want to get back out.

A Busy Day

The mowing job just getting started. I mow out a spot big enough to park the truck in first.

This time, I even got some of the center drainage ditch mowed. I did get the tractor stuck doing it, but only once.

The plants don't look really good, but they are still alive. Our onions didn't come up.

The job is finished and I'm ready to head for home.

After all that, Heather and I went to Lexington and got some cages for the new rabbits and put them in the barn. Heather will get then set up and rabbits moved into them shortly. These are self cleaning cages to make life easier.

odds and ends

This is the finished mowing job on the house side. The garden is visible towards the back of the lot and a little to the right.

The long end of the rabbit side of the barn has just one board left before being done. I ran out of nails. I guess we shouldn't have bent so many, but it was just so easy to do.

Mowing in Hope

All loaded up and ready to get started with the yard work over in Hope.















It really needs mowing. It is starting to look like a real yard now. The grass is getting a lot thicker. I mowed the house side first.











Then we broke ground for the garden.















The garden isn't going to be as big as the one we had in New York, at least not until after we get moved over here.

Then I started mowing the horse pasture side while Lynne and Heather were planting the garden. I don't have any "after" pictures. By the time I was finishing up, I was racing an incoming storm. Somehow, I finished up before it started to really rain.

Allen's Graduation

We arrived when the center opened for all of the guests. This was Clarkson University's 117th Commencement.















The graduates all filed in with bagpipes playing to fill all the seats in the center.











Allen is on the far side, about two rows from the back. They were seated in alphabetical order. We didn't know where he was going to be seated, or we would have tried to get seats on the other side.











Our new graduate. We are very proud of him! He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Software Engineering and also in Mathmatics.










And since we were WAY upstate, we were treated to a little bit of snow before we left.