Hello All,
It is 27* this morning with partly cloudy skies. Hopefully, the sun will come out and warm the day?
Yesterday the combine and the hay wrapper broke down. They both need major amounts of welding done on them to fix them. Tony has gone to Delta to borrow a different wrapper. The combine… well, I don’t know what can be done about that. I did hear that we have A LOT of hay. On Monday, Tony and the kids were only done with 1/5 of the hay crop. I don’t know where we are now. The juniors and seniors have been getting out of school to help out, and they stay out till nearly 9 pm. Depending on the weather, the kids go to school either half day or not at all. They never seem to mind missing school....haha
Some of the younger highschool kids have been out of school due to a cold and flu bug that they’ve been catching.
Jarred, Jennifer, and Seth J have gone to Fairbanks this week to put a roof on for a client. Apparently it is a steep, scary roof. Jarred says they should be home by Friday or Saturday night. Oh,and Seth has been spending the nights at Joey Casey’s apartment since Joey is now going to school and working up in Fairbanks, with his paramedic and fire thingie.
Hannah Davis did write and say that baby Owen is doing great and at 11 weeks, he weighed in at 11 pounds.
Ben had a booth at a show last week, and he did very well. He rented a credit card machine which aided in sales. He has been okayed by his doctor to cut down on wearing his chest brace which was for his fractured vertebra. He still can’t lift heavy objects or do things that require twisting.
Jon Squires, our new Paramedic, has been off the farm working somewhere remotely, but Michael (his son and my student) has no idea where that could be. :) J Ally has gone in today to pick Jon up and to help him with some paper work.
Pat Lou came home last week for a couple of days before flying off to the UK to see his new little family. Bethany and posted some sweet pics of Pat with the babies. Maybe I’ll grab one off fb to show you all.
Jepsens and The Basalygas were gone for the same amount of time, Rus and Millie met with their son, John, in Montana, attended the MT convention, then went to Upsala for a short visit with their grandchildren and great grandchildren there. Sarah and the girls went to CA to help out the aged parents and visit family.
Brad Cox - one of the loggers - left today for another meeting in Ketchikan with the timber task force for the governor. The weather going in and out of Ketchikan is extremely sketchy making it difficult to keep the traveling days at a minimum. Brad says if it turns into too much of a hassle and they can’t change where the meetings are located, he may have to drop out of the meetings.
The new tack shed is slowly coming along. The doors and windows are in; insulation has been blown into the roof; unfaced bats of insulation were put into the walls; the inside walls have been put in. this weekend, the guys hope to put the metal siding on the building.
Have a great day!
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Good morning. It is 22* this morning. I can’t tell if it’s going to be cloudy or not – it looks like there are some light clouds.
Tony was able to borrow a different bale wrapper. The kids were pretty excited because it does 30 wraps per minute whereas the other one did like 3 wpm. They will get done that much sooner hopefully. The kids all say that they might be about 50% done with the hay.
I gave out bad information yesterday. I was told that all the inside walls of the tack shed were up – the studs are up; there are no finished walls yet. L There is still much work to be done on the tack shed – inside walls, outside tin, electric, water heat hooked up (the sawmill will heat the tack shed from their surplus over there with all their sawdust burners and other things)
Judy and Steve went farm shopping today. Jarred, Seth, and Jennifer are still in Fbks roofing. Seth Fouse is up there too doing his sheetrock job.
Melissa Lupo texted me last night to say that while her folks are over in Hawaii on their vacation that her father was taken to the hospital for chest pains. After many tests the drs said it was pain from extreme stress and to try to alleviate his stress. Hopefully, they are right and there is no physical problem involved. Keep them in your prayers today.
Rob will probably get his tonsils out within the next month or so. We will have to go into Fbks for that and stay a while I guess.
May got her own place and is pretty excited about it. The cabin is an empty one but pretty much set up so she will be moving in shortly. I told her she was extremely fortunate to have a roof of her own at 21...I was still living in dorms in my mid 30's...! haha.
Will post photos soon.
I need to get. Have a great day!!!!!
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