Working at the Homestead

July 14th - 80 degrees - Beautiful day with low humidity

We have had some beautiful days this week. We do need rain, but I have to admit Lou and I have enjoyed the days with the low humidity and a nice breeze.

The blueberries are ripening, and we have been picking them a few each day, and so far we have frozen three quarts of them. Janet picked some when she was up this weekend and that was the beginning of the harvest. Brion and Preston made a frame with PVC pipe and covered it with netting, which has really worked well to keep the birds from dining on the berries.

Lou and I have both had appointments for haircuts and dentists, so all of our jobs have been scheduled around these various appointments which make life interesting. Thankfully, those are all out of the way now, and tomorrow is clear and hopefully, I can get the house cleaned up!!

Shell Oil Company paid to have Rice Road paved; therefore, the mailbox at the Rice Homestead had to be raised to accommodate the Mail-lady. You can see from the pictures Rice Road looks like a super highway, which certainly pleases the few residents that live on the road. I suggested to Lou that he install a mailbox like we have here at home and he also thought that would be the easiest way to solve the problem, and that job was accomplished yesterday afternoon.

We took my electric chain saw to cut off the existing post and once there we needed an extension cord and Lou brought out his father's extension cord. I thought it was really a neat operation, as to the way he had devised his own way of winding the cord and the way he made a separation for the part of the cord to be plugged into the outlet. It certainly worked good and was easy to wind up and put away when the job was completed.

Going to the Homestead and going into the barn or the garage is like a visit to a museum and always enjoyable so much history and memories like there. More on all of that later.