The beginning of the chicken mansion...

Kayla and Tyson are here for the weekend....

so we put them to work.

Of course - that's what good parents do.

footings

floor

walls

The rest of us hauled mulch for the garden....

 Thank goodness for great neighbors that let us borrow their 4-wheeler :):)

Gardening with Sophia

Sophia came over to help us start the garden.

and pull weeds.

and shovel mulch.

and move rocks.

It was a bizzy, bizzy day.

Luckily, we had Kamo helping....

 Bob the builder worked on the arbor...

and then we rested...

Grandma Zee's place

This post is a little behind... my mom moved in December.  But better late than never :)

Living room
note the wood pile out the window
for the wood stove in the corner.
Cozy.

Other view of living room
Play house for our grand-babies
woohoo!

dining area and view into mudroom

The Kitchen window looks out at the
backyard, cows and mountains
It's a nice view :)

Bathroom.  Gotta have one of those.

 

Craft room
Computer room
Spare bedroom
Storage room

Good thing it is BIG.

Hallway.

Grandma Zee moves in....

Moving day finally arrived.... and it was cold!  But no snow or ice.... so we considered it all good.  Braden had a few friends come over to help and our home teacher brought a few other strong arms.  It took less than an hour to unload the van.   Now Grandma Zee is getting it all put together.  I'll post those pictures in a week or so once she has it whipped into shape.

not as much stuff as I thought...
that's a good thing!

staying warm while directing trafffic

Braden was awesome at helping!

Messy but wonderful kitchen

Grandma Zee taking a break

outside.

It is a beautiful Sunday morning and so I headed out to take a few pictures of our (almost) finished yard.

Not that I think it will ever be finished.

What is life without projects?

The front.

The back.
good thing you have me to explain things to ya...

Looking at the back yard from the south

Terra Cotta Cove
or
Shea's place.

South side again
looking down onto mom's patio

fire pit.

Fence and arbor should be done next week...
climbing roses over arbor should be done next decade.

South side view from the street.

the orchard
Pear, plum, peach and two apple.
I love my orchard!

The garden
and my shadow.

22 raspberry bushes
thanks Tammy!!

dang, I'm tired!

We got a pallet of flagstone delivered...

Very, very heavy flagstone.

So we can have pretty walkways and a fire pit.

So we can have S'mores.  

Of course.

Furniture dollies aren't just for furniture any more.

big, strong Braden.

bigger, stronger Robert.

After three trips to Home Depot -
we got the right one.

girls are strong too, you know!

Next we (that would be Robert) have dig down
for each  flagstone, put down sand and then replace each one.
UGH.

Mom watering the new plants.

my cute little japanese maple.
with a few flowers.

next week's project is to spread all this mulch.
ugh.