Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[frustratedearthmother]

Those look absolutely scrumptious!

 

[Mike CHS]

Just talked to our shop mod contractor and he said the metal for the roof will be delivered tomorrow and they will be back Monday to finish the job. I need to order a load of gravel before we put everything back together so I can level everything off again.

 

[Mike CHS]

Teresa came up with a good idea today but my girl is always coming up with good ideas. We have been wanting to build a canopy of some sort over the area where I use my BBQ grills and smoker. We have the trusses, lumber and metal roofing material that came off of the porch down at the shop so we can use that to make me a 10'X10' covered area at the house over the cooking area. That's also where we run a big camp stove for a lot of our food canning to keep the heat out of the house but it's always in the sun and gets HOT.

 

[Bruce]

This one is mid sized - Model MS170. I agree about the Stihl oil It's about as good as it gets.

The MS170 is the smallest gas saw Stihl sells. I have the 180 CB-E and it really isn't up to the task of cutting a lot of wood. I bought an Echo CS-590 for the more heavy duty work, it is about equivalent to GB's 290.

Those ribs sure look good!

 

[Mike CHS]

The only wood I cut is the ones storms bring down.

 

[Baymule]

Those ribs sure look good! We had lamb/pork chili tonight.

 

[Mike CHS]

Today was actually pleasant weather wise. Nice breeze and low 80's which was perfect for getting my grass cutting caught up.

I needed some more shorts for working outside so we went shorts shopping at the Goodwill store. I found 4 pairs that looked new and since it was half price day they cost a whopping total of $8.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Congrats on the great bargains! We just got a nice GW store in town - I need to go check it out!

 

[Bruce]

Apparently the quality and price of goods at Goodwill varies greatly across the country. I've heard of places where things, like Mike's shorts, are a deal and others where they charge nearly new price and places where the goods look too well worn and not even clean.

 

[Mike CHS]

This Goodwill almost always has something if I'm looking for work clothes and they only display decent looking. Shorts were listed at $4.98 and two Dockers slacks were listed at $6.98 but everything is half price on the first Saturday of the month.