Moving On!

Thanks the to the 38 degree temperatures the drywalling has been completed - only a week behind schedule - the finishers will be taking over on Monday.

The yard is looking good, other than a few spots I missed with the sprayer I have most of the weeds under control, the rock picking and leveling continues. The mound has been getting watered but very little has actually soaked in, mother nature has been unable to help in this area of late. We have been staying in town and the other day I was out to get a change of clothes and turned the sprinkler on. I realized I was running late and had to rush things along and mistakenly forgot the sprinkler on, it ended up running for 3 and a half hours, I'm hoping some of this moisture made it into the soil!

We had some really good storms over this past weekend, the timing was excellent since we were house-sitting for friends in the city. One night we had high winds that downed lots of trees in the city and caused minor damage, the following night we had pea-sized hail and than on the next night we had dry lightning south of the city which sparked several large grass fires. The fires made for a spectacular yet scary sight from The Ridge, they were only a couple of miles east of the acreage, luckily the wind helped firefighters get them under control.

I had a prolo treatment yesterday morning after I got off my nigh shift, so we are out at the Van Ham farm so I can recover. The weather has continued to stay very warm, however last night it dropped down to 12 degrees and we all froze! On Monday I rode my bike in to work; it was 42 degrees with the humidex!

Today the kids finished swimming lessons, all passed with flying colors, Blair has turned into a real fish and has already got a save in the water to his credit, which will look good on his resume when he applies to the FD.

Tomorrow we return to the Hat and The Ridge, we have tickets to the rodeo tomorrow night, Carolyn is working this weekend so the kids and I get to hang out, going to the comic book store to stock up and possibly doing some fishing or tubing on the creek.

Kirby & Blair are off to summer camp on Sunday until the following Thursday, both are looking forward to it but Carolyn and I are already predicting a phone call from Blair early in the week wanting to come home, so we will have to see what happens.

I have one more week of work than I'm off for the following two after that, it was supposed to be three off but I've been called to do firearms training for a week with our returning recruits; I will take the training hours over regular work anytime!