For Ron

To steal a quote from the Andersons..."YUP" :)

Labor Day Weekend Sept. 2013

I thought we were staying in Katy this weekend. I was going to start cleaning out the storage unit. Move some things to the garage and pack some things up. Instead, Ron wanted to go to Bandera. Now that he doesn't have any specific responsibilities at church, I think I may have trouble keeping him in Katy :)

I went to work at my store from 10-5 on Saturday, then came home and threw some clothes in a suitcase. And put some food in a bag and some drinks in the cooler- then we headed west. We stayed in a Motel 6 near Helotes. We went to church in Kerrville on Sunday morning. We went to the house on Sunday afternoon and this morning. Coming home this afternoon, we stopped at Bucee's. It was packed with people! I would guess, that they might have 30 toilets in the ladies bathroom, and I still had to wait in line. Then just east of Bucee's, I10 became a parking lot with bumper to bumper traffic. I bailed out at Sealy, which took us on a scenic route adding lots of extra time to our drive :(

Here is Ron in his swimming pool :)

Here, I am in my kitchen :)

We were surprised that half of the trim was in and almost all of the cabinets were in. All of the inside doors- except the special order ones- are hung. All of the cabinets and trim will be painted an ivory color. The small doors without wood, will have glass in them. The cabinet that I am standing next to, will have the microwave and oven in it.
Behind the half wall is the sink and the dishwasher.

They haven't finished the roof yet. The builder is having a few problems with the roofer and getting the gray metal materials.
Here is a picture of the front of the house, from a new angle :) 

(Usually I am taking pictures from the other side/front.)

Only the Andersons and the Petes will appreciate this picture- they saw this part of the river- in the park- when they were there in April. I think it is a bit DRY in Texas! What was a pretty nice fishing hole and small creek, is almost completely dry. (You can see the small building on the cliff, near the river.) Needless to say, the river behind our house has been completely dry all year.

Inside Stuff

We have an exercise room full of cabinets and a garage full of doors :)

New Grandson

Noah Oliver Anderson.

August 27, 2013- born at 7:39 pm. 6 lbs. 11 oz and 20.5 inches.

(Sam says, "Life is Good" :)

Love This Place!

I love the roof, trim, hardy plank, and stucco colors!

(Even though the roof is not quite finished and the quality of my pictures is not very good :)

Swimming Hole

It appears to me that when you have to use a heavy machine to chip out solid rock for a hole for a swimming pool- once you had the hole dug, you could just fill it up with water...right?! Why do we have to pay for steel reinforcement and gunnite, inside a solid rock hole?!

The digging is alot harder than the pool company expected and they are having to haul away, rock by the truck load. Plus the machine doing the digging is like a giant jack hammer and it is VERY NOISY.
After seeing the difficulty of digging this hole and seeing the difficulty of the trenching for the geo thermal system (also in rock)...our builder reassured us that we have "built our house upon a rock"!

Siblings in Berthoud

I should have done this post last week. Ron and I flew to Denver on Friday, August 16. On Saturday morning we went to John and Angela's house. EvaMay had arrived on Wednesday and Mike and Enola had arrived on Thursday. It was a great weekend for Ron and his siblings to spend time together, just sitting around and telling stories about "remember when..." and also getting reacquainted with each other. Since they all live a long distance away from each other, their time together is very sparse, to say the least. Mike and Enola were in Berthoud to attend Enola's 50th high school class reunion. Since I wanted Ron to spend as much time as possible with his siblings, I didn't suggest that we do anything with my family- but we did have dinner on Saturday evening with Doug, Quin, and Braden. (Gary had to work) And I did sneak out for lunch on Monday with Sharon and her daughter, Becca. And no one missed us for 3 hours on Sunday morning while we attended church in Berthoud. They did think we were both very over dressed, as we showed up for lunch :) Our kids would have totally laughed at us on Monday evening. I guess by then everyone was "talked out", hot and tired, and we were sitting in a dark living room- just sitting, kind of napping, not saying much of anything to each other. Finally by about 9 pm we decided to go out and sit on the back porch- which was a couple of degrees cooler than inside the house. There was a beautiful full moon. By 10 pm we were sitting at the picnic table playing pinochle, by porch light and moonlight and it was finally kind of 'cool' outside.