Finishing Projects

 We began the month of April by finally getting the solar panel up to power the automatic gate opener.

Putting up the solar panel for the gate opener

We enlisted Vince and Dawn’s help to lift the pole up. Larry rigged it up so it went up fairly easily and

then he, on top of the ladder, put the U-bolts on to hold it in place. He also fixed it so the panel can be

moved so it gets the maximum amount of sun. 

Larry put a sun shade over my garden and the plants seem to like the shade as they are really beginning to grow. The beets look great and I love the colors of the squash plants as they bloom. My tomato plant is doing well also.

   Squash plants in bloom

       Beets under the sun shade

Tomato plant between the squash plants

Larry saw that the structure moves in the wind so he took down the water pipe and put it against the

house where I thought it should have gone in the first place. We found a new Chinese restaurant after an incident at the old one and across the street from the new restaurant is an Ace Hardware which had a downspout (nobody else in town seemed to have them) so that gave Larry everything he needed to move the pipe and downspouts and he was able to finish that project too.   When we were at Loews looking for something else, we found some nice looking stepping stones so Larry put them down

between our side and the kid’s backyard. Larry did a great job of laying blocks down and Dawn liked

them so well she wants to use the same stones for her walkway. 

    Finished with all three downspouts

       Working on the downsprouts

                           Larry being a block layer

Finished with the path between our place and the backyard

We both have lost weight and Larry has lost so much his pants keep falling down so he got out his

commercial sewing machine and re-did his belts to keep his pants up. I’m so grateful he is so talented!

We have had many doctors appts. one of the many results of getting older, but all in all we both are in

fairly good health thankfully.

Larry sewing to made his belts smaller

We continue to play Train on Fridays but have changed the time to earlier in the day so Dawn can work outside in the evening and early night as it is just too hot in the AZ sun to work out there during the day. Her project is coming along nicely.

We also finally have one of our Christmas presents

up where it can be seen.  Thanks Rosie for your awesome gift!  

Lastly, we had a roadrunner visit our fence.  Not the best picture but he was very close.