therapy and Snow

As soon as it was light I could see that it snowed most of the night.  I had a therapy appointment this morning at nine.  There was a message on Face Book yesterday saying the office would be closed.  I called the therapy number this morning and they were open. I had a little extra time this morning before a left for Fillmore.  I pushed off haft the snow on the driveway before I left for
Fillmore.   I was going to drive straight the Revere Health building, but for got and got off at the Fillmore north exit.  I then drove through Fillmore to the building and got there a few minutes before my appointed time.  I checked in and was in the therapy room soon after.

Dr. Allen was not there, but was met by Dustin who put me through a whole bunch of therapy exercises.   I should of got some pictures of each device.

The above photos shows one device.   The handles were attached to stretchy lines.  I used this in several different ways.  That I pulled the line back level with my hips.  I was there for nearly and hour.  I then bought a few groceries at the Fillmore Market.

I stood on the front porch for this photo.  This is the second time that removed the snow off the sidewalk.

The shed is not finished, but I pulled over the shredder to keep it out of the snow and rain.  

 It was quite hard because of the snow, mud, and one flat tire.  The photo shows a trail through the mud and snow.

I removed the snow off the dish three times.  It snowed most of the day.

I have a broom attached to a long stick.  I left it there all day.  the top of the broom is under the eve.

This is the snow on the east side of the house looking north.

Late this afternoon I began work on a small table that I could place next to the sofa for my lap top.  I had some pieces of 2x2's left over from the shed.  I am using these for the legs.  I ripped and other piece of 8/4 wood into 5/8 pieces.

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The Day to be Thankful

What I posted on Facebook the first thing this morning:  "What a beautiful day! A list of some of my THANKS:  Jesus Christ, Prophets, Scriptures, Temple blessings, Wonderful wife/sweetheart/best friend, Children, Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren, Parents, Brothers and sisters, Friends, Home, Gardens, This part of the world. etc. and etc. and etc.  And  the police, doctors, nurses, those that keep the highways clear, and those that provide football games" 

We had planned to drive to Eagle Mountain this morning.  It hadn't snowed any during the night, but as it began to get light it started to snow.  We decided not to go.  We watched the Macy Parade.  The marching bands were the main thing that I enjoyed.  There was a lot of singing by different artists.  Most of them were just noise to me.  There were a few that sang the traditional Christmas songs or hymns.  

Carol made five or six pies.  I took one of them to our good friends, Jim and Carol Masner.  They did not answer the door when I rang the doorbell.  I set the pie and Dream Whip on the floor between the storm door and the door to their house.  They called just after I got home and invited us to dinner at two.  I was watching two shows at the same time.  The Macey Parade and a football game.  Later it was the Dog Show and the football game.  When that was over, it was time for lunch.

They prepared the food.  Turkey, dressing, salad, yams, and gravy.  We had pie for desert.  We visited for a while and then went home.  I took a pie for Richard Darnell.

Later in the evening we made sandwiches with some of the left over turkey.

Mistake in Time

I have a business card on the kitchen counter that says my appointment is at nine this morning.  After showering and a shave I put on my nice clothes for my appoint.  After breakfast I was waiting to go to Fillmore for my appointment with the my Dermatologist.  It turned out I was looking at the card of my physical therapist.

I stopped Ralph Myers insurance.  He is changing who gives me insurance.  He says that it will save me some money.  The car and truck insurance is the most expensive.

My appointment with the dermatologist was a eleven.   I was on time.  I checked with the receptionist; then picked up a magazine.  After turning a dozen pages I went into the exam room.  The nurse asked a few a questions and then the Dr. walked.  He looked at my right temple and then under my chin the left.  This where he found cancer about six months ago.  He applied liquid nitrogen to six or seven pre-cancer things.  I was in the exam room for about ten minutes.

After lunch I began work on the shed.  There was a piece of 3/4 inch plywood west of house five.  It was covered with snow.  I leaned it against a tree that was near to the patio.  It will have a chance to dry out some.  It is a good piece

There was a piece of poly near house five.  It was folded and tied in a neat bundle.  I unfolded it on the driveway.  I was going to use it for the shed roof.  It was really dirty and just barely twelve feet wide.  That wasn't wide enough.  I folded it back up.  There were two large pieces of poly under the house.  I unrolled it on the drive way.  It was about fourteen feet wide.  I cut of about eighteen feet.  In the garage there was a  tube that came from a roll of poly.  I rolled the cut of poly on the tube and it on the roof of the shed.

The photo above shows the roll on the west end of the shed.

I put the extension ladder against the roof and carefully climbed on the roof.  There, I unrolled it to the west.  I maneuvered it around until it was completely covering the roof.

Fastening it to the roof was the hard and time consuming part.  I use a short piece of wood, (about five inches long); one on each end.  That was both the north side and the south side.  That meant a lot of climb down, walking over the front, then back to the back.  I finally got it done and just in time.  There was a quite a breeze that would have blown of the poly if it had started a couple hours earlier.  I fastened the over hand on the back side to the posts.  I then some 2x4's on the roof for additional weight.  Some were twelve feet long and others were sixteen feet long.

The photo above shows the front.  The short boards are attached to the rafter.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Snow all night & Most of the Morning

November 25, Monday

As soon as it was light, I could see what needed to be done this morning.  There were tons of leaves on the lawn, and could damage the grass if left on the lawn until next spring. I used the blower with a couple of extension cards to blow the leaves into piles.  When the pile was large, i raked in on top of and old blue trarp.

This is the back lawn near the cherry tree.  The trap which there.. An old ragged blue tarp is covered with leaves,  A little blue can be seen in front.

I went to work blowing the leaves on the east lawn.

The pile of leaves in the north garden is getting pretty deep and it became a lot deeper.

Then it began to snow.  I pushed the snow off the lawn before it got cold and by morning it would be frozen solid by morning.

I the snow is gone on the driveway.

26 November, Tuesday
It snowed all night and this was the view of the winter wonder land.  There are five pictures taken at various locations in our yard.

I started to push of the snow on our driveway.  Two vehicles stopped on the road and all of the boys from the ranch grabbed their shovels an with in fifteen minutes, they pushed off all the snow on the driveway and the front walk

I pushed the snow east of the hen house to make a spot where the chicken could come out.  Well, they didn't.  They stayed in the hen house all day.  Their food was all gone when I locked the door.  I game them more.

The snow covered the TV dish.  There were some tall rose bushes in the way.  I cut off some large branches.  That gave my room to reach the dish with a long handled broom.

This afternoon she clouds drifted away and left the sun shining on the snow.

I put up a ladder on the north side of the shed.  I climbed the ladder.  I didn't dare to step on the shed roof.  I moved the bottom of the ladder to the north and I felt pretty safe when I stepped on the roof.  i use my snow pusher to push snow off the roof.  The above photo shows the last corner covered with snow.

Here is the last picture.  There is no snow on the roof, and with the sun shining to melt any snow and dry off the roof.  I hope to put some six mill poly on the roof tomorrow.  And, build a back wall.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Shed Sheathing Completed

Quite cold this morning.  I had an appointment with a physical therapist this morning at 9:15.  I drove to Fillmore, completed required paper work, and then started my therapy.  I was on a machine for ten minutes which was something like a bicycle, but instead of pedaling I used my hands to work it.  After the ten minutes he told me that I had gone nearly two miles.  I moved my arms to different positions and asked me if it hurt.  Sometimes it did and some times it didn't.

I then came home.  I went right back to Fillmore for the State Bank celebration of the 62nd birthday.  I brought home two plates of food.  On for me and one for Carol.

After lunch I started work on the shed.  I hauled all of the sheathing that was in the pick-up one sheet at a time.  I hauled a sheet and then moved it into position on the shed.  I would then go back for another one.

I  clamped the sheet on both sides of the cart.

I cut off a two piece and put it in the empty place.  There is a faint outline of the piece in the above photo.  Drove screws around the edges two hold it into position.

The top edge of one of the rafters was not complete.  I scabbed on a four foot 2x4 which made it much easier secure the sheathing.

I could hear my tractor running.  Each time I went to the truck there was someone moving the shredded wood.  Later. I asked Brady, who was running the tractor, how he got it started.  Several months ago I tried to start it and it wouldn't start.  He had used a screw driver to hot wire it and it started right up.  

I finished the roof and brought the rest of the sheathing and laid it against the north end of the shed.  

Here is a view of the front of the shed.  I put the tools on the two wheeled cart.  I put the tools in the garage.


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Shed Progress Noted

It was stormy all night.  There was a trace of snow on the house and garage roof and a little snow on the front and back lawn.  I didn't think that I would be able to work on the shed.  We drove to Fillmore where I got nine more lag screws.  We stopped at the State Bank and then got some groceries at the Fillmore Market.  It was lunch time when we got home.

Richard a couple of weeks ago, gave us some small almonds.  Carol had removed the nuts on some of them.  After lunch we worked for nearly an hour cracking them.

We got a small bag of nuts.

The rafters on the back header were attached to the header with 5 1/2 inch lag screw.  They were not attached every two feet.  There were three roofing sheets on top of the rafters.  Some were screwed into the rafters.  I removed all the screws.   I then  removed each lag screw and slid it into the right positions and put in the lag screw.   

I had to make a new pilot hole.  I did for all eight of the rafters.  I was pleasantly surprised that the lines on the sheathing were mostly over the rafter.  I started to put in the screw.  Some of the rafters were bowed either to the left of to the right.  I used a pipe clamp the pull them into position and then screwed them down.  Before I left the roof I screwed the three sheathing down.  I put all of the tools on the cart and put them in house three.

We had re-fried potatoes, sausage, and one gladiator tomato.

Comments and questions are welcome.  

Three Sheets of Sheathing

I have a sharp pain in my left sholder.    I had a appointment with Dr. Robbie at Dr. Grose's office.  It was at Nine.   I was there early and I soon went in the exam room.  After the weigh in and blood pressure test and a few other questions.  Dr. Robbie came in.  I was diagnosed with cuff rotator  problems.  She gave me a cortisone shot.  I also got a pneumonia shot.  I then made an appointment for physical therapy.   It is Friday at

It rained during the night and it looked like one half inch of water.  It soaked into the ground about three inches deep.  I went to work on the shed as soon as I got home.

The above photo shows my mistake.  I made the cut in the wrong place.  

This is the back view of the scaffolding where I could walk the back distance with out moving my folding ladder.

I made a hole in the rafter put in a lag screw to hold the rafter to the header.  Sometimes I drilled a pilot hole in the header.  And then with a drill and a socket I could screw I in most of the way.  Then with a socket wrench I could go the rest of the way.

A view of the shed with some sheathing on top.  I got three sheets.

I drug one sheet that was in the truck in our driveway.

 better photo  I was on the ladder trying to space the rafter at 22 1/2 inch space.  I read the tape wrong and cut eight at 21 1/2 inches.  The rafters would not line up to support the sheathing.

I put one sheet of sheathing on the wheelbarrow pulled it that way.  I then tried to sheets and it was way hard.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Signifcant Shed Progress

I wasn't able to begin work on the shed until this afternoon.  We were at the Manti Utah temple this morning.  It was almost one when we got home.













The image is borrowed.  The notch in the rafter is called the bird's mouth.  I used a jig saw and circular saw to cut the bird's mouth.  It didn't work.  I sort of got one started.   I used a chisel and mallet.  That took a long time.  I put the rafter on the roof and it didn't fit.  I chiseled some more.  I gave up on it and cut a line vertical first cut.  I got something that seemed that it might work.

I clamped the rafters together and drew to lines.  I made a saw kerf on each line about a half inch deep with a circular saw.

  I made repeated cuts.

Here is another photo of the same, but on the opposite end.

I used a chisel to clean the wast.  When I put the rafter on the headers. north end not fit.  There is a faint line to the right of the cut out.  I then removed more wood up to the line.  This time it fit.

Here is a photo of the rafters in place.  I fasted four of them to the north header with screws, and one of them with a lag screw.

Comments and questions are welcome.