Well, another month has gone by. Though we do not have as many opportunities for new experiences , like we did while we were traveling, we, none the less, have been findin' ways to occupy our time.
We have had to teach Bobby many skills that being a member of this family requires. He needed to be taught how to open his e-mails and how to navigate his Facebook account.
We found that asking him to do his share of the dishes did not work out. He "got into" the job too well.
He had to be taught to stop playing with his toys and take a nap.
That skill seemed to be mastered more rapidly than dishes and computer skills!
We have gone out to dinner a few times. Doing that by ourselves was a rarity this last 6 weeks or so though.......
....because we have been blessed with several opportunities to be visited by friends from our past that have taken us up on the opportunity to come by for a bathroom break, lunch, over night or a weekend and our meals out have been more with them than on our own. Over the last short period of time we have enjoyed visits from, The Gossons, The Andersens, The Skeltons and The Nielsons.
Larry and Diane are the only ones we remembered to get the camera out for!
Ann has been active on taking Bobby for walks along the beach and we have gone on three hikes together to enjoy the beautiful area in which we live. This was part of a hike along the Coastal Trail.
This hike was actually in town. We have a beautiful city park here with a massive play structure,
beautiful flowers,
and a couple huge picnic areas.
On this hike we accompanied some Relief Society Sisters from our church an a hike along the Rogue River.
Chris, Hattie and Wayne accompanied them for the fun of it too!
What our little congregation here in Gold Beach lacks in size, we make up for with opportunities to gather and eat. In the last month we have gathered together for a meal at least 3 times. These range in attendance from about 10 to 45.
'Tis the season for yard work, planting gardens and fighting slugs and snails. These time consumers have also occupied our time this last month.
We have a few planter boxes and a greenhouse we utilize for this purpose.
We also have also salvaged 7 planter containers in which we have planted lots of flowers, some, compliments of our son in New York via Mother's Day.
Wayne resurrected our Bosch Mixer and wheat grinder and with a recipe he adapted from one given him by Larry Nielson, Wayne made 4 loaves of bread. Oh!!!! The house smelled so good that day!!!!
Another project this last month was replacing a gate leading to the back yard. Wayne, being cheap and with a desire to have it match the weathered lumber of the rest of the fence, built a new frame from lumber he had gathered a couple months ago from a house demolition he participated in and old fencing from a portion of fence replaced earlier. Here is the partially completed gate.
Remember this project from a couple months ago? We had removed some unwanted hearth and found water damaged flooring that needed replacing. Well the project took a break due to other pressing projects after we got the floor, carpet and sheet rock replaced.
This last week, Wayne had some outside rainy weather and some time, so he taped, plastered and sanded the joints,
sealed and painted the walls (paint is still wet in this photo),
and with the help of our wonderful neighbor, Alan, that had bigger and better tools than Wayne, we began cutting, staining and placing the moulding.
Alan even has a sander that has a dust catcher!!
Now the moulding just along the wall needs priming and painting before it is installed,
and with the hearth piece installed all that is needed is a carpet piece installed and we will be done with that.
So, how was your month?
