Fall Back downs

This past week hasn't been all that exciting.. just working and not even out of town. Boring! But I did learn that another friend has had a blog for awhile. Her's if off myspace. She and her hubby are full time RV'ers now in San Carlos, Mexico for the winter. Sometimes I envy her for being able to just pick up and go here and there, other times I feel the nomadic life is cause you can't find just the right spot to set up camp. Kaylyn, I don't mean any ills for you, that is how it feel to me. But I sure can get into the moment wherever I am.
Now to add a downer in my world - I've used up my camera. Can you even imagine? It's like taking pics under the influence of drugs - all pschyadelic looking. I don't know what happened. Just one day it wouldn't take pics like it used to. To get it fixed would cost more than getting a new one I'm affraid. Ugh. I like the fact of it being a 3mg. I've looked at new ones and they are mostly 7 & 8 mgs now. That sure uses up a lot of mem in the aging computer. I know - put the pics on CD's to save space, but not being organzied enough to know where my pics are on which CD makes it tough to quickly find a pic. I hate to be in a downer mood, but the darkness of fall/winter takes a grip and sometimes just doesn't want to give up power. It's not always this way, just around the FALL BACK time change.

Do you measure up?

1 cup = 16 tablespoons
Half of 1 cup = 8 tablespoons
3/4 cup = 12 tablespoons
Half of 3/4 cup = 6 tablespoons
1/2 cup = 8 tablespoons
Half of 1/2 cup = 4 tablespoons
1/3 cup = 5 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon
Half of 1/3 cup = 2 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons
1/4 cup = 4 tablespoons
Half of 1/4 cup = 2 tablespoons
1/8 cup = 2 tablespoons
Half of 1/8 cup = 1 tablespoon
1/2 tablespoon = 1-1/2 teaspoons

One thing I'm learning how to do is use smaller portions when I cook. There are only 3 of us here and I seem to cook for a large group. Even left overs get lost in the frig. So I'm trying new recipes for 2-3 and I found this chart that is very helpful for someone who is mathematically challenged.

Smooth as cement...

This past week we've been having to be creative with where to park our vehicles. We have had a new driveway poured as did the neighbor to the south of us. We had to move our 5th wheel, my sister's boat, our truck, our Jeep and my sister's car to other places till the new drive is dry enough. The neighbor had to move her and her son's cars to the street as well. We were able to move our 5th wheel to a piece of real estate one of Walt's sons owns but doesn't reside at. We were able to move the boat, the neighbors pop-up trailer and my Jeep to the neighbor next to then one next to us (she doesn't drive so she doesn't own a car). We could also park Colleen's car there too if needed. Between Walt & I gone most days we were able to not have too many vehicles in the way of the workers.. 10 days ago they came and cleared the old cement off both places.

Then it RAINED. Ugh - wet soggy dirt has to be dried out before they should pour the new cement. So from Thur the 18th we have had all this chaos going on. They started FLUFFY the wet dirt on Mon the 22nd to dry it out more.

Here I am digging up a sprinkler line so it doesn't get burried in cement. On Wed they came and did more fluffing. On Thu they came and graded the dirt in both drives, then put frames up.





Fri morning at 8ish here comes the first dump truck.


Then the beehive of activity started. In the beginning there were only 3 workers doing the clearing, the hauling and the grading. But when it came time for the pouring the group had multiplied. Since they were pouring both drives, they needed lots of people at one time. Amazing how fast they worked too.

It took all day till 9pm and 3 truck loads of cement to finish off the 2 drives. They paid close attention to details which is what we liked abt their work.

We are both very pleased with the outcome and are willing to pass along their names and phones to anyone who needs work (and not just cement work either).