Updates on Grandma's new house and the Wanch

The metal roof is on, and the well has been drilled (you can see it just to the right of house).

The well pump was put in by K2 (in yellow hard hat) and his boss Seth. K8 is behind Seth while our friend Brian looks on. The well driller had to cut some branches off of the hickory tree behind and to the right of K2, but it's not damaged too bad.

The house has been "wrapped", and the heating & cooling guys came to measure for the duct work.

Then they returned two days later and installed all the duct work. This is a view looking into the mechanical room in the basement. The blue tank is the water bladder and the white piping is from the well outside. K2 drilled the holes through the concrete wall. The electrician came on the same day and installed the power box on the wall (the shiny silver thing just to the left of the ladder).

Brian trenched lines from the well to house and this second line to the power pole. He hired K8 as his helper - you can just barely see him behind the far big tire of the backhoe. K8 also spend the previous day and night increasing the height of the tar water proofing line on the concrete that you can see along bottom of house. Oh yea, all the doors and windows are installed, so we can now lock up the house at night!

Brian had K8 up on the backhoe to watch and learn how to dig trenches - Brian is a master at it (trenching and teaching boys).

K9 having breakfast with his two older nephews on the last day of their visit before they headed home to Texas.

The fruit trees started to bloom, and of course, the temperature had to drop below freezing...three different nights! Hope we get some fruit this year - plums, apples, peaches, pears, and cherries.

Otherwise, we'll have to eat more meat than fruit. K8 and I will be tagging lambs this week and then moving the sheep and cows across the stream to the hill pastures. We need to burn the hay spots before we fertilize all of our pastures and paddocks which is the first time ever fertilizing since we moved here six years ago. Hope to see a dramatic improvement in the quality and quantity of our grass, and get some hay off the lower paddocks. This view of paddock #2 (sheep) and paddock #3 (cows) from our back deck is so much better after we cut down the big Sycamore tree. We finished splitting all of the wood in the paddock behind our firewood racks, and most of it has been donated to a family to burn in their wood furnace. 

This is K7's Missionary plaque located in bulletin board at Church. He is one of seven Missionaries currently serving from our Ward - six young men and one young lady. K7 is in Africa; one in The Philippines; one in India; two in Georgia; one in the Dominican Republic; and one in Colorado.