Coffee anyone ?

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready in that make your own keurig . I misspelled it, but you get the idea. Leaving Odessa soon for the 7 hour, 80 MPH trip back home on the interstate.

 

[promiseacres]

Thanks for coffee. I made yeast donuts, some have sprinkles.

 

[rachels.haven]

There's the remains of one of those big satellite dishes, I think that will make a nice pavilian or perhaps a trellis. All those white cubes are the remains of small refrigerators. It's gonna need a few more days of clearing out rubbish but it should be a nice area eventually.

Wow, that satelite dish would be really cool mounted on tall sturdy stakes as the top of a living plant covered pergola. Lots of potential there. I hope the fridges aren't too hard to get rid of. In my neck of the woods they can be.

 

[Bruce]

Carefully, bang on an adjacent wall and it then decides to calmly leave. Thankfully!

Dodged one there!

 

[Niele da Kine]

Wow, that satelite dish would be really cool mounted on tall sturdy stakes as the top of a living plant covered pergola. Lots of potential there. I hope the fridges aren't too hard to get rid of. In my neck of the woods they can be.

Fortunately they're little fridges and can be taken to our local transfer station (containers of rubbish that get taken to the dump) several at a time and won't cost anything to dispose of them. It will just be an ongoing hassle for awhile, especially since there's no driveway up to the big workshop yet. Getting them to the trailer to haul them away will be the hardest part.

When the big workshop was started (it's still not finished, but we bought it half built), the property was owned by the neighbor's daughter and her boyfriend. They used her mom's driveway to get halfway up the hill before going across the property line to the new workshop they were building in the back. Which means we don't own the lower half of the driveway and it got fenced off when there were some squatters living in the little house claiming they'd bought it from the bank. We will put in a driveway eventually, but we've been getting the little house that came with the workshop ready to rent and it's been an extreme fixer-upper.

I'd like to build a deck at the edge of the bluff with the big satellite dish as a trellis at the end of the deck. Covered with some sort of vine, I'm thinking maybe grapes, but there's a beetle here which just decimates grape leaves and I'd not want to put a lot of bug spray/deterrent around an outside sitting area. Maybe a Zephirine Drouhin rose since it's a climbing thornless big pink rose? Can't eat it, but it would look pretty and smell nice.

Other options would be lima beans, there are several varieties which just go nuts and can have about fourteen feet of vine. They stick around for several years, not sure how long they actually last since the one time I grew Christmas limas I got tired of them after a couple years and took them out. They kept eating my garden shed. Lilikoi (passion fruit) is another cover everything vine with big flowers and tasty fruits.

But, first, have to clear away the dead refrigerators, get the workshop finished and the inspector out to finalize the building permit, then I'll build the deck & pergola so there won't be any question of if a pergola needs a permit or not. And, before we are working on the work shop, we need to get the little fixer upper fixed and upped and get a renter for it. But, there's also the avocados which are starting to fall, which is why clearing the debris out from under the tree is important right now.

 

[Mini Horses]

Yes I had coffee this morning -- alone! 2nd morning without sharing with you guys. That is just no fun. It was scary when both this & SS went down and for "so long"! Soon everyone will realize we are back in business!!

 

[promiseacres]

I have tried several times....
Checked in but couldn't post. So here it goes

 

[Bruce]

Somehow, thankfully, I always seem to be busy doing something else every time the site goes down.

 

[Baymule]

I was finally able to get back on this afternoon. We were gone to Odessa to see the grand kids and their parents too, so barely checked in. Gone 4 days, then 2 days of no access, it was getting BAD! Sooooooo glad to be back!

 

[Mini Horses]

GOOD MORNING!!!!

Coffee is better with the site back up. Lot of rain all day yesterday. 3.5" was a little more than I needed but, got it anyway. Rain again today -- lees & more scattered -- repeat for tomorrow Stop.

Daylight is arriving a little slower with all the cloud cover out there.

Half a day of work at a couple stores today. Run between the drops. I need a break from this house anyway.