Once a month, Schonce a month!

Once a month, schonce a month. This is our fourth weekend in a row!

Notice the newly painted picnic table that Grandma Chaney gave us.

I went over to say hell-o to our neighbors. Zoom in and check them out.

I got the drinking fountain going in the side yard. I'll work on the one in the park next.

Mom's azaleas are really blooming now.

Freshly mowed the day before, a peaceful morning in the lower garden


Can't wait until we are all there.

Love, Mom and Dad

Weekend two, more farm fun

Another trip to the farm and the first thing we did was unload our camper right in the front yard. Mary Jane says "There goes the neighborhood!"








We set to work on removing the weeds from around the fruit trees and spreading mulch around them for weed control and water conservation.















Mary Jane must have mowed an acre and a half. At one point I had to turn the mower lights so she could finish up one area in the dark.



























We weeded the grapes,vegetable garden and berry patch





This pile of weeds is 8' across Mary Jane pulled and piled most of
them



























I call this Sherman's garden. Last week he wanted to know where we were going to plant the tomatoes. I said I wasn't. Then we looked around and started pulling the weeds from this raised bed. Saturday I planted tomatoes, squash and green beans. I set up an automatic watering system so without much care there should be tomatoes for anyone who visits.




There were weeds 2' high in the grape bed. Now it looks great.

Mary Jane pulled all of the weeds in the berry bed and we planted six owllala (spelling?) berry plants.

All in all we worked our tails off and had a great time doing it!

Notice the blog is not backwards this time.

Next time I'll have a picture instead of that shadow-head!

Love to all,

Neal and Mary Jane

First Farm Weekend

Please go to the bottom and work your way up I'll figure this out for the next posting



The front of the house








Coming up the back driveway





looking down the back driveway from the upper garden

Standing at the end of our property looking out across the adjoining two acre parcel.

Grandma says "I'm going to sell my place and move in with you!"

MJ and her new cherry tree

A look out the front door

From the upper garden back to the house

some of the flowers

Across to the neighbors

One of Mom's oak trees

A look out the lower driveway

The cherry tree

lower garden

upper garden

back yard

North side yard

Why are the pictures loading at the top of the blog instead of the bottom. Unless I can figure this out you will have to read the whole thing backwards!

the park

The Park

The park

Hooray! We spent our first weekend as owners instead of visitors. As you can see we need an new name for the place because to us it is exceedingly grand.

Mary Jane and I were busy about the place doing all kinds of things. I got the lawn tractor ready, mowed some weeds, planted two cherry trees, worked on the sprinkler system, and fixed a few things. Mary Jane unloaded the truck and trailer, sorted out the bag full of keys we got, took pictures and helped with everything
We didn't want to leave.

Here are some more pictures. Now go to the top!

A new arbor

Lane tells me that our blog is not a one time thing. That the first posting must be followed by other postings of interesting stuff. What have I gotten myself into?

So OK, here is a picture of the arbor I made for Mary Jane. She has been talking about one for years to separate the area of the patio from the garden part of the yard. Not bad for a derilect eh?

Mary Jane has put in her order for one (or two) at the farm! If Plan Check Express doesn't go maybe I can just build these and sell them on the road side.

This blogging will require an ongoing list of experiences and accomplishments to report on. I may have to change my dreary, ordinary life into a blog-life. I'll be traveling, building and picture taking to no end! If no pictures appear to substantiate some fantastic adventure you'll know I have just made it up just to satisfy the blog readers.

Our Trip to the "Farm"

looking from one garden to the next, from the side yard out to the front,from the front porch to the RV carport, from that front drive out through the "park".

Along the line between the acre and the 2acres,

out through the park

The park and one of the outbuildings

the deck off of the kitchen knook and the side yard again

a view of the house from in front of the garage and a look down the fence along the 10 acre parcel next door

The 2 car garage and a look back into the acre from the dog run

Inside one of the sheds and a part of the craft room in the shop building

From the living room into the kitchen past the guest bedroom.

From the side of the house into the back yard

Again from the front porch up the driveway to the gate at Deer Haven Court

From the front door into the living room

Mom and I went up to Paradise this weekend to visit Grandma Chaney and get another tour of the new place. We met Mrs. Betz and asked her all kinds of questions about the sprinkler system, fruit trees, mail, internet, TV, flowers etc. Grandma Chaney came with Sherman and Alicia. We found out more stuff about the place.

All but one of the outbuildings are insulated and sheetrocked.

The house is all insulated, walls and ceiling.

She is leaving a nice Sears lawn tractor and the appliances.

Everything is irrigated with automatic valves, bubblers, drippers on timers.

The single car garage is bigger than the double car garage.

There is 1400 feet of fence we don't have to buy/install.

The wood shed is 1/2 full of wood.

There is water and power at the RV storage building.

The garage and shop have about 35 double cabinets all around the walls.

The swamp cooler will cool the house in the summer. There is also AC and a furnace

There are hose bibs piped to all over the property.

There is a 10x12 shed with a chain-link dog run on the side that wasn't on the appraisal.

It really is almost level.

The whole place is pretty much "turn key".

I will try to post some pictures next.

Dad