Late April

With Tom home after his trip to Phoenix, we kept busy as we could outside, but the wind did thwart some of our efforts.  In that case a gym was just as good a place to be watching Maya and Sara play basketball.  I got to see both of them play a couple times, and what a joy!  Gratefully their last two tournaments were in Springer and Cimarron.

 Maya took the free throw trophy for her level at the Springer tourney.  It was fun to watch her and her team - most of whom I know.  David and his fellow coach did a great job this year!

 Sara showing off her medal in Springer...didn't know most of her team, but it was fun cheering.  And one of her coaches was Marie, who did a great job steering them toward the right basket.

As much as I have been chomping at the bit to get going on the house, we have been checking a lot of other outdoor to-do's off the list:  putting the electric fence up around the veggie garden, getting the ditches ready for water delivery (last Saturday - what fun to see all that water coming onto the land and how shocking to see if fall into rabbit holes or gopher holes and never fill up!), and installing a frost-free spigot in the flower garden.  

Here's our new spigot with a couple stepping stones from Miki & Marty around it.  I enjoy collecting rocks for this particular area.  Now if I can only keep the bind weed at bay! 

With all this other activity, we rounded off the month with home work on Sunday.  Aside from accepting deliveries and accumulating materials, Pop delivered the construction trailer he created out of Tom's old travel trailer.  It is hooked up to power, has a CD player and mini fridge, and will protect tools during our extensive home work.  Tom tested out the AC, which still works, so I'm sure there may be future pictures of chairs occupied and beer in hand on a hot day.

Pop thought he was just dropping off the trailer, but stuck around as we laid our first level of block.  Next step is squaring off and shimming the low corner. 

More pictures to come of all this as it happens.  In other news of the month, we enjoyed some down time - a "block" party at our neighbors' house across the road and a couple other nights of just hanging out with family.  Looking forward to more of that, too...