Kathy was babysitting Nolan, our 10 month old great-grandson, when I arrived home. He seemed glad to see Papa. Lydia, our 4 year old great-granddaughter, was with Kelsey when she came to pick up Nolan. I KNOW Lydia was happy to see her Papa Bert. I was happy to see all 3 of them. They couldn't stay long. Kelsey had baked a cake for someone and had to get it delivered. She is quite the entrepreneur. In addition to being a wife, a mom with 2 kids & a registered nurse who works full time; she bakes, decorates and sells cakes for weddings and other events. She has also recently started an online ladies clothing boutique. (She and Andy, her husband, have to work hard so that the government can extort money from them and give to those who are not willing to work as hard as they do.)
Final progress photo from TN.
Thursday AM I went to Plateau Metals in Mayland, TN, about a 40 minute drive from the cabin, and turned in an order for the metal roofing and siding material. I will need "tweak" the material list before finalizing the order. I love doing business with the folks around Crossville! I told the salesman that I was leaving TN and that I would not be back for few weeks. I asked him about making a deposit so that I could just call him and tell him when I would be back to pick up the material. He told me to just call him 2-3 days before I needed to pick it up and he would have it ready, no deposit necessary. I have never purchased anything from this place. Along the same lines, there are 2 Cash Home stores in the Crossville area. One is in Crossville and the other (the Tansi store) is about 6 miles out of town on the road to our cabin. I have purchased quite a bit of stuff from the store in town, a lot of it before the Tansi store was built. The people who work at the Crossville store are very knowledgeable and show that they appreciate your business. (My limited experience with the Tansi store indicates the people there probably have the same attitude.) Last Wednesday Marvin and I needed some more 2x4's (I had not included enough for temporary frame bracing when I made the initial purchased). Tom, my brother-in-law, had stopped by to visit and offered to go pick them up, so that Marvin & I could continue working. He went to the Tansi store, told them I had an account with the Crossville store, and they let him charge the $78 cost of the 2x4's.
It is going to get below freezing in MO tonight (Saturday night), the first below freezing temperatures of the season. I needed to come back to MO so that I can winterize our travel trailer and get our outdoor Hardy wood boiler fired up. Out heat pump system is efficient and works well down into the low 30's, or even into the 20's, before the backup propane furnace takes over. The Hardy has no freeze protection so I need to get a fire in it to keep it warm the next couple of nights. When overnight lows are going to be above freezing for several days in a row I can let the fire go out.
I don't have enough wood cut to last all winter. Our neighbors whose property adjoin ours have at least 3 dead trees on their property. Both neighbors said I could cut the trees for firewood. They would be glad to get rid of them and they don't heat with wood. I also know of 2 dead trees on our property that I need to cut down (I can probably find a couple more if I walk around the 4 acres). I didn't want to do it during the summer, mostly because it was hot. The other reason is that my small woodshed, the one near the Hardy is full, it holds about a weeks worth of wood when the weather is really cold. Now that it is cold enough to start the Hardy I can cut the trees, one at a time, load the wood in my trailer, park the trailer at the Hardy and burn the wood as I need it. I won't have to temporarily store it in the larger woodshed out back and then haul to the Hardy.
May God bless you and yours. He certainly has blessed me.
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