The new House.

It has been awhile since I posted anything to the blog. I have been so busy with the house and after losing Skeeter, I have not felt like writing. Since my last post, the house has come a long way. We have for the most part finished the electrical wiring, plumbing, got the emergency generator installed, the sub-floor installed, insulation sprayed under the house and some of the sheet rock hung. My buddy Eddie and I are installing the H/A/C ducting at present. We will be getting the inside walls sprayed with insulation next. I think once all the sheet rock has been finished Janene will be happy. She is getting excited, looking for tile, carpet, paint colors and even new furniture. So, I would say Janene is ready for me to get finished, but since I am doing this myself for the most part, it takes a while to get stuff done. I am in hopes that we can have the house ready to start moving in maybe by spring. You can see photos of the house in progress on our photo page. See the website below.



If you want to drop by, come on down. We are staying in our camper most of the time. There are so many thieves out there wanting to steel copper wire and construction materials off the jobs, we decided to live here. Yep, if you know me you know I have my trusty ole 357 magnum and shotgun by the door. On a funny note; I installed a bell in the camper and connected it to a wireless photo eye up front at the road. It goes off when somebody comes in the drive. The other night it went off two times at once. So, here I go out with the spot light and gun. Yes, in my under shorts. I shine the spot light all around and spotted the burglar. It was a big fat black opossum. He was high tailing it out of there too. Guess he heard about the crazy guy in undershorts.



Then on the human side, we got a delivery from Ford Lumber last week. Two guys brought the front door, only it was 6:00 a.m. in the morning, still pitch dark, and I was sound asleep. Yep here I go out in my undershorts with the gun. Believe me those guys started hollering to me, letting me know who it was.



Now for other news. You know I have always been a dog person. Not much use for cats. Well, Janene's cousin lives about a quarter of a mile across the field. He has a tabby cat that comes to visit on a daily basis. His name is Festus. Festus comes to visit daily and has now brought a family to live here. His wife and son are as wild as any Farrel cats you ever seen. Janene feeds them and they come twice a day for food. They will not let her get close to them, but if she does not feed them on time they come to find her. She has named the momma ( a calico) Scatter, and the son Buckwheat ( he is black and looks like a Buckwheat) Now Festus came up the drive the other afternoon bleeding from the mouth. Some ASS HOLE shot him in the mouth. We had given Fetus up for dead. But remember a cat has nine lives. Monroe ( Fetus' real owner) came to get him. And after a week in the animal hospital and over $500 Festus is back on his feet and doing well. He looks a little different since the bullet blew half his jaw off. His mouth looks a little side ways. Oh, while Fetus was in the hospital Monroe had him fixed. ( That means his nuts were cut off) Once Fetus healed up and back on the prowl, nothing has slowed him down. He still visits every day. It appears that he has not missed the important part of his back side either.



One more thing, we needed several loads of top soil. Also when it rains we get flooded out at the barn. So, I had the big idea to dig a pond to hold the run off water and have all the top soil we need. I could not help myself when Janene ask me if I was going to put blue gills and catfish in our new pond, I had to answer her by explaining that we need water in the pond first..... She did not appreciate my humor. Well that is about it for now. The farm is coming together. We know that her dad, James, is looking down proud as can be. You seen this was his dream to make this place his "Sugar Farm".



And that is it from Down on the Sugar Farm.