Well, that is it. July is ALMOST here. Soooooo, hazy - hot - humid? I hope not. Unfortunately, it will probably be just that. When does winter begin? :) I can almost hear Jason saying "not soon enough." Another snow fan - for those who don’t already know that!
Anyway, I will be patient. Winter will be here soon enough (well, soon enough for most people).
The last few days have been busy. We have water at the farm now! The well has been repaired and water once again flows. In about six months we should have county water. Hopefully. We spent yesterday with family. Tony celebrated his birthday! We went to eat and then to see the new movie - Wall-E. It was great. I think everyone enjoyed the movie. We also went to see Tommy and Dione’s new house. This was the first time I have seen the inside of their new residence. They have a beautiful house with a GREAT backyard. Peaceful. You can hear the wind blowing through their big Oak Tree in the back. :) Very nice.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY!
I have been busy trying to become more organized around here. There is TOOOOO much stuff. It seems like "stuff" accumulates faster than a person can get rid of it. Paper, mail, wires, more wires. lol So, once again I am going through everything and trying to "refine" the amount of stuff. We shall see how this works out.
David is leaving for Canada tomorrow morning. I believe his flight is at 6 AM. Too early for me! He will be in Canada by early afternoon.
Julie and Danny are in CANADA as well! They took a road trip. BIG road trip it appears. They are spending the night at Niagara Falls and then moving on to Ohio tomorrow. I believe that is their plans.
Hopefully everyone has a safe trip.
We went to Woodlawn Cemetary this afternoon. We placed a flag on Robert Dodson Seniors gravestone.
I took this photograph of the Jesus statue. Pretty clouds today.
Other than that - homework, housework, farmwork, and everything else under the sun. We sold one of our lots in Mayfield. That means we have one lot left. That is it. Both houses have sold and one lot. That leaves one more lot AND Ashcreek. Sue needs to sell her place as well - so I will add that to the "wish would sell" list!
June 30th, 2008
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Happy Birthday Tony :) Try not to party too hard today. I know it is difficult being 40. You are 40 today? Right? Wait…maybe you are younger than that. Hard to keep up! 
We spent most of the day at the farm. We went hunting for arrowheads, marked off some of the land (trying to figure out the footprint, got the well water running, and met with a guy from Evansville (Brad Morton) who installs solar energy.
At this point we are definately getting a geothermal system, solar hot water, and perhaps a mixture of wind and solar energy. We are not 100% sure yet. Illinois is in the middle of deciding what their incentives will be for the new calendar year. Last year they had a program that you could receive 30% off your solar energy installment. Not sure what they will do this year. Hopefully something though.
We are looking into wind power. See here.
Here is a photograph of what the Skystream looks like in someones field/yard. Not sure where this photo was taken.
June 28th, 2008
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Well, life has certainly been interesting over the last few days. Busy is the best word that I can find to describe everything.
The fair is this week so there is a bit of weather watching to do. We had some heavy thunderstorms in Paducah last night. Strong winds and heavy rain - ton of lightning. Not the best weather for the fair (at least last night). More storms this afternoon and evening. Just enough to keep me watching radar. There is also the relay for life over in Livingston County, KY. That is an all night event.
HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT! Temperatures have been in the nineties all week long. Not a fan. No pun intended. I would rather have snow. That is just me though. :) It will cool off on Sunday through Tuesday. I can live with that forecast!
We met with Precision Audio this afternoon. I had no idea that so much went into planning the electrical side of ummm electronics! We are trying to figure out how to do the movie room. They had a lot of ideas. We will have to explore options.
Tomorrow is an important day. We are meeting with a man from Evansville Indiana. He installs solar panels, wind turbines, and solar hot water heaters. We also are meeting one from the St Louis area. That won’t be until next week. I am excited about the prospects of having a portion of the electricity run by solar power. :) We shall see how it turns out!
David has been helping us a lot. He can see things that we can not. That is always helpful. I think he is having a good time as well. With his engineering mind - he likes projects. He is at least helping to relieve a bit of the stress.
We also met with Don, the architect, yesterday. That meeting went extremely well. He is doing an AMAZING job of pulling everything together.
We have moved back to Ashcreek. I think I mentioned that though. Daisy is NOT happy at all. Apparently she has decided that she does not like the hardwood floors. I have no idea why. This has not been a problem in the past. She won’t walk on them. She is totally freaked out. She lived here for the first year of her life. She was fine at that time. Now - no go on the wood floors. Won’t walk on them. So if anyone has some ideas please let me know!
Daisy visited the farm, for the first time yesterday, and I guess she liked it. The weather was hot - Pugs do not like hot weather. She will live though!
Everything is moving along - swiftly but orderly. I hope to start a footer, up on the farm, by the end of July or August. Hopefully!
I am heading to Washington D.C., in the middle of July, for a weather conference. Should be fun.
Dione and Tommy have situated themselves at their new home. I need to go visit! It has been so busy lately. Also, Deena and Tony think they have sold their home as well. If that is true then I am not sure what they will do! We also sold a lot - we have two for sale. We have sold one - we also sold the last new house we built. I told Sue last week that Joey buried this St Joseph statue in our front yard - supposed to help sell a house. Every house has sold but ours. I call it collateral blessings. lol Maybe this one will sell next - now if we can get Sue and Jack to sell theirs - we will be set.
Here are some photos from Ashcreek - Daisy
Her island of refuge.
We took Daisy to the farm. HER FIRST TIME OUT THERE. This was her look when she got out of the car.
One of the fields near Round Knob. Thought this was pretty - this farm adjoins ours.
June 27th, 2008
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So we worked our butts off today at the farm. I hauled off branches and did a lot of weed-eating. LOT of weed eating! Had fun though…I love to do work like that. Can see the progress.
David and Joey put together the generator. That took awhile. They got it running though!
Terry did some more landscaping and general cleanup. The view is amazing now!!!! I LOVE IT! I am SOOOO EXCITED! I guess that is easy to figure out though!
Midterms tonight…radar! HARD test. Hoping to do well on it.
We met with Don today - the architect. He has some nice plans drawn up. We are still working out the final details though. It will take a few more weeks to get the footprint. Hopefully soon though!
We are moving tomorrow. LOTS going on!!!!! :)
Dione, Mariah, and Tommy have moved into their new house. They bought a house in Paducah. I have not been there yet! Hopefully this week.
Here are some photos from today! LOT of progress.
Terry pushing dirt around and cleaning up debris. He did an AMAZING job.
This is where my grandmothers house used to be.
DUSTY DAY! HOT as well. We were soaked by the time the day was over.
Grandmother’s old homestead. You can see the old well to the right.
Joey putting together the generator.
David and Joey working on the generator.
June 25th, 2008
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David has been digging around and he came across a couple of old maps for the farm. One of the maps dates back to 1807 and the other map is from the mid 1880s. There are some large swamps and ponds in the area.
This map was from 1837
Our farm should be somewhere near the 34. That makes sense because to our east is on old lake and
swamp area.
The large lake/swamp back then to the west is clearly marked on the map. At some point they must have
drained a lot of these areas.
June 24th, 2008
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This is the first sunset I have watched since I moved from the farm back in the 1980s.
That would be me
Looking southwest
Looking south/southwest
Looking south
Looking south/southeast
We saw this fire/smoke in the distance to the northwest. Not sure what was burning
Some flowers of my grandmothers - we are going to save these and replant them.
Joey and David looking for arrowheads.
June 23rd, 2008
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Terry started on the excavating this morning. He started around 6 AM. He is trying to clear off the area we are going to build on. He will come back later to help clean everything up and get it ready to plant grass and so on. Tony, Joey, and I rode up together and David met us there. It was a HOT morning and early afternoon.
Looking northward - nice day
Excavating begins!
The corn is looking nice and green
Tony working hard.
June 23rd, 2008
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Mid-terms started today. I have Climate and Radar this semester. I went ahead and took the Climate Mid-Term. It wasn’t toooooo hard. It wasn’t easy either, though! Hopefully I did well on the test. I am not sure when I am taking radar. It will be the harder of the two - or so I suspect!
We begin escavating tomorrow at the farm. Terry will be up there at 6 AM. We will be going up with Tony and David around 8 AM. I will definately take some photographs. I am excited to move forward. Lot of decisions in the coming weeks, though.
We were hoping to meet with someone this week over the subject of solar power. Still working on that subject. We are moving back to Lone Oak on Wednesday. I already have most of our stuff moved up there. I have been moving it - slowly - over the last few days. Dylan is going to help us on Wednesday morning.
Thursday morning Comcast Cable is coming to turn the internet back on. Can’t live without that!
June 22nd, 2008
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"There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world, and those who don’t." - Robert Benchley, Benchley’s Law of Distinction
Well, it was a long week. Looks like a new week will start soon! That is fine with me. We have so much going on - time is moving along swiftly. I managed to have lunch with Sue on Friday. We talked forever - this was the day after we were able to catch Julie for dinner. So a good week with eating out with friends. I still need to catch up with John and a few others.
Sue seems to be doing great. Her photography is getting better and better. Stunning is the best work for it. I don’t think she realizes just how good she is! I told her that I would be looking for her book at "Books A Million".
We may get some thunderstorms on Sunday. Unsure as to whether we will actually see some severe weather. It is possible across portions of the area.
Awaiting Jason to report in on his "solar fan". I am actually excited to hear if it works well. It is a ceiling fan.
June 22nd, 2008
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Well, I am shocked. I really didn’t think Hillary would pay him. The check even cleared! Go figure.
I am assuming that Tony is going to donate the money back to her campaign! 
June 21st, 2008
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