Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Breakfast, building & bulls...

Today was another day of good eats! (If they don't quit feeding us we won't be able to move by the time this build is over..) Jimie brought us "tacos" for breakfast using her mother's handmade tortillas, a friend's farm eggs, and her father's homemade venison sausage. They were wonderful! Not to be outdone, Edna (photo upper right) invited us all to her historic home for a "sit down" lunch. Beans & homemade cornbread, pickled beets & tossed salad, German sausage & chicken and just in case we were still hungry, pound cake & Texas ice cream. Did I mention Edna is in her 90's? Texas & home cooking has agreed with her. And my mother, of course, was afraid we weren't getting enough to eat so made us a big meal filled with great vegetables. (Can't believe I'm still awake to write this!)

Now that I've made you all hungry, we really did do a little bit of work today. The walls that were finished were delivered to the job site along with the shower. (Apparently last year they forgot the shower until after the walls were up and they had to drop it in from above before the roof went on, a method of installation none of them wanted to repeat.) And the paint crew finished the last of the interior woodwork that could be painted before installation.

Fourth photo is happy hour. It was just barely warm enough to sit out, 53 (frost on the ground again this a.m.) but we managed.

The 5th photo is the back of Edna's house. The "tower" is the base of what used to be the water tank for the house. Now she's on city water. These old water towers are all over town and are beautiful & quaint.

The last photo is Gus, the steer, who showed up today across from where Tillie is supposed to be camping. Curtis (I finally got a name for the current VW guru) called to say Tillie's wiring is a mess patched together in a tangle. Among other things, he thinks the ignition is faulty but thought he had another somewhere out in the yard (whatever that meant). Curtis sounded older than dirt to me. If he's been working on VW's for 40 years, he must have been 50 when he started! At any rate, tomorrow is yet another day so we'll see what happens...
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