First Take Down

As soon as breakfast was over and a little TV news we started to 'take down' or put away then Christmas decorations that are inside the house except our Christmas tree.

The nativity pieces is only symbolic of putting all the decorations away.   We got all of them put away by mid-morning which was about 10:30 this morning.  We have a large tote and a large box for the nutcrackers.  The small nutcrackers were put in the bottom of the tote and the large ones at the top.  The rest of the large nutcrackers were put in a large box.  There were other items that had their own box.  All of these boxes were put in the master bath closet.  There is a tall and large box for the wrapping paper.  There is enough there to last for fifty years.

I worked in the garage on rebuilding the workbench.  After lunch I helped Dustin Smith start the shredder.  There were some hemp plants that were inferior and had to be destroyed.

I went to Fillmore to pay the insurance on our house.  I also, bought a drill bit to make a hole a little smaller than the threaded caster.

As soon as I got home I started working on the workbench.  I made one leg of the bench 26 1/16 inches loon out of two 2x4's.  I screwed them together.  I made a dado in the leg for a piece of oak which will hold the caster securely to the leg.  I made it with a piece of scrape 2x4.  It took several trials to get it right.


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Christmas Shopping and Decorating.

We drove to Utah county to do the Christmas shopping. I am skipping the boring details.  We stopped at Walmart, Home Depot, Hobby Lobby, Beds, Bath and Beyond, In and Out, The Church Distribution Center, and Beyond,  Costco gas, Harbor Freight, and Walmart again.  We shopped and Shopped until we almost dropped.  It was steady shopping for five to six hours with a short break for lunch.

There were several times that I asked the clerk for a price check on a certain item.  He/she pulled out a smart phone and took a picture of the bar code on that item.  In seconds they gave me a price.  I tried it with my smart phone and got a picture of the bar code.

After we got home I got a table and set it up in the little bedroom.  We put the gifts on the table ready for wrapping.

One picture with the flash and another one without the flash.


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The Sad Ending of a Perfect Day

The day started early for us as.  We went to the Manti Utah temple for our shift early this morning.  After a good day we came home.  We were home a little before one.  Usually we eat at the temple, but today we hurried home and had lunch at home.

I let the chickens out.  They quickly left the hen house and walked around the yard.

I haven't visited the greenhouses for several days, and was interested in seeing how things were going.  Above the small hemp plants are being cared for.

Near the back door there were a lot of feathers from one of our gray hens.  I followed a trail of feathers.

In the back yard by the plum tree I found the dead hen surrounded by tracks from  a large dog.

I put a black sharpie next to some of the tracks to indicate the size of the tracks.  lighter color is about 3 1/2 inches long.  The dog tracks would be about three inches wide.

I found feathers from one of the red hens on the bottom step of the front porch.  

I worked several hours on the front of the front porch.  I put three stands of lights on the yew plants on each side of the stems.

When if was cleaning up, two hens came from the west and stopped momentarily before going south to the hen house.  The red hen found it way into the hen house.  The gray hem would not go.  I had to chase it to the east side where it went in.   I locked them in the hen house.  There are two hens in the coop, three missing, and the dead one.

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Sunday & Monday

31 November 2019 Saturday

We went to the Manti Utah Temple a little after  eleven this morning.  The roads were a little wet.  We were able to leave a little early this evening and got home about 8:20.

1 December 2019 Sunday

We attended all of our church meetings

After our Sunday dinner we put up the new Christmas tree.  It came in three pieces.  When the lights were plugged in they came on.

 Interesting though, when the tree pieces fit together above two pieces were also plugged in.

2 Monday 2019

We decorated the tree.

By lunch time We had finished the tree.  We put up the rest of the decorations.  I drove to Fillmore to make a deposit and by a few things at Roper's.

We put all of the indoor Christmas decorations out. 

The children's nativity.

 The drummer.  Lorena Rodrigues gave this one to us many years ago.

All of the balls, a merry-go-round, and a faris wheel.

Most of the Nutcrackers.  Some we have had for years.

Some native sets.

A few more nutcrackers.

More nutcrackers.

The last time was putting up some lights over the front porch.   I made a path through the snow going back and forth for the lights.

Here I finished with the porch lights.  I made a lot of "S" hooks to hold the rope light to a half inch conduit pipe.  It looks pretty good.

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Three Days - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday

Sunday

I peeled a large sweet potato and sliced it in half.  It was wrapped in foil, and baked for a couple of hours.  Tasted really good.

While we were at Church, Wendy, Carols nice, left two tubs of lemons in our garage.  I got a picture of one of them.

Two larva I pulled off the pepper plant.

The Topaz melon for some reason is dead.

A photo of pole beans and lettuce.

Monday -- No Photos -- We spent the in Utah County,  Our main objective today was to get the car serviced.  We were in Murdock Hyundai service in Linden for nearly three hours. There was a lot of waiting.  We delivered a tub of lemons to Miles and Nyleen.  We left their place and drove to Orem.   Carol discovered that she left her purse at Nyleen's.  We drove back to get it. We had lunch at the In and Out.  The second objective was to get a artificial Christmas tree.  The was one in the Payson Walmart.  It was gone.  I called the Walmart store in Spanish Fork.  A lady put me on hold while she looked for a tree.  She did not get back with me.  After twenty minutes I hung up and left.  It was dark by the time we got home.  That is why there are no photos.


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Tuesday -- We went to the Manti Utah temple early this morning

We bought the lazzer light projector.  I set it up this afternoon.  It was too light to see if it was working;  Later in the evening it did begin to work.

I put up a lot more Christmas lights.  I wrapped a lot of tree branches.  It looks pretty good in the dark.

A garage is being built down the street north of us.  They put up the walls and trusses today.

The is a truck loaded with more lumber un loading.  It was too dark for a better picture.

Inside Decoration & Tree are Boxed up Safely in the Garage

We removed all the decorations off the tree.  Then we unscrewed the large white ball shaped lights. We put a white plastic plug back in the hole.  The next job we did was to take down all the nut crackers.  There are hundreds of them in all sizes and shapes.  The last thing was the round snow musical balls.

We put the pictures back where the nutcrackers and glass balls were.  Everything is boxed up in a bathroom closet and in three large totes in the garage.

I resumed working on the table.  I cut the legs out yesterday and today I built the cross braces.  I have the skirt and the table top to do.

The weather is so warm that a big chunk of the Devil's Ice Tower fell off.  It is melting some all day. 

The little piece a the base looks a little like a bear.  

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The Beginning of Christmas Decorations

After breakfast and some of the chores, it is time to begin the decorations. I was checking things out in house two.  I went back to the house and a truck drove up.  It was Andy and Dusty Bray.  They wanted some Gambel Oak cone-tainers.  We talked some of the 2x4 challenge.  I took him into the house to show him what I made out of a 2x4.  I then showed him some of the other things that I made both in the house and in the garage.

We then went to the church for a viewing of a lady that lived in the ward for a long time.  She has been in Delta in a care center.  We came back home, changed clothes and went to Fillmore.  I wanted to get a couple of fruit boxes for storage.  They didn't have any.  We then made it home and I started to move all of the Christmas decorations that in the bathroom closet.  Below is the nativity.  We have had this for years.  It doesn't take long to take them out of the box, but a longtime to put them back in the box.

 Christmas stockings hanging on some decorative Christmas plates.

 We have had this one since American Fork.  Joseph and Mary are making their way to Bethlehem.  Carol starts moving it on the first of December and moves it down one position each day.  It takes 25 days.

 Several years ago, Carol put this puzzle together.  I all the pieces have the same shape.  We glued it together and have a clear acrylics piece over the top of it.  It sets in the center of our coffee table.

 We have nutcrackers here and nutcracker there and nutcrackers everywhere.  On the edge of the fireplace.

 In front of the TV

On top of the TV

A group of crystal balls, merry-go-round and the cuckoo clock.  The cuckoo clock would not work.  Last year when I put it away, I took out the batteries.  It works now because I put new batteries in.

A lathe would make it much easier to make legs for the stools.  I have a lathe and I pulled it out of the corner of the garage.  The motor that I found, I think, runs the lathe.  Both were really dusty.  I blew the dust away with my blower.

I found a stool that I made when we lived in American Fork.  The seat is made from a large piece of wood that we found in the desert east and north of Eureka.  It fell a part and has been hiding under some of the boards. I found one of the legs at another location.  Somehow, I need to glue back together.

Next week I hope, I will put some shelves on the west wall between the corner and the window.  I moved the many of the boards to expose the corner and to get a better idea of the shelves.  The photo shows the boards that will be on the shelves.  After I get the shelves done, I will leave the car outside and move all the boards and put them where the car was.

With the Christmas decorations up I have a little bit of time to work on the Viking stool.  I made the wedges a couple of days ago.  I trimmed them a little for a better fit.   I made a paste with saw dust and Elmer's glue.  I mixed it in an ice cream tub.   I used the mixture to glue the legs to the seat.  My theory was the saw dust would fill the uneven spaces between the tenon and socket.  I then drove in the wedge until it would not go any further.  I did the same thing for the other two legs.  I then used the paste to fill in some cracks.  The picture is pretty fuzzy.

Andy and Dusty Bray stopped by to get some Gambel Oak cone-tainers.



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