Christmas Presents are Wrapped

This morning I had planned to fix our satalite dish, so we would be able to watch TV.  Carol had other plans.  I'm not going to go into much detail.   She began to wrap the Christmas presents.  I helped her.  We finished around lunch time.

We got a good start.  The roofer began their work which was evident from the walking on the roof.  The door bell rang and answering it Mike, the foreman, wanted to get TV working.  I suggested that he needn't fix it.  I could do it later.  He insisted on fixing it.  His helper came in.  We went to menu and then to setting which showed the amount of signal that was coming in.  Most showed "0" and should be 85 or higher.  After a few adjustment all five signal lines were 85 or higher.  We have TV now.  Direct TV service person was scheduled to be here in the afternoon of December 22.  I cancelled it.

We went to Fillmore made arrangements to get a new home insurance home policy.  We need to go in later and sign all the papers.

The roofers have most of the shingles on the garage and the south part of the house.  They removed the shingles from the northeast part of the roof.

My table saw has been in the garage for fifteen years or so.  It is plugged into a 220 volt line.  The saw cord is too short to reach the wall and lay on the floor.  Every time I walk on the left side of the saw I have to make a high stem get over it.  Frequently I would not step high enough and pull the cord out of the wall.  I bought the supplies needed  to make a four foot extension cord.  I did it this evening before and after supper.  It cord was heavy duty, but I managed to make it work.  I took it out to the garage it works perfectly.

TV Problems

We spent the morning at the Manti Temple.  We left at 4:15 am and arrived home at 2:30 pm.  It was a good day.   The roofers were working on the house when we got home.  By the time they left most of the garage and south side of the house was done.  This is the south side above the kitchen.

 This is the east side of  the south wing above my bedroom.  The TV dish is west of the pine tree.

The roofers today removed the Direct TV dish, removed the shingles, put down new shingles, and then replaced the dish.  We don't get a any TV. I called the Direct TV people and reported the problems.  The first person could not help me.  She referred me the next person who did several tests.  None of them worked.  It showed that nothing could be done except to call a technician.  She set up an appointment.  He could come in the afternoon of Thursday, December 22.  Cost is $50.00.   I put the ladder to the roof, climbed up on the roof to see if there was a way to move the dish.  It was pretty solid.

This evening I went on YouTube to see if I could find out how to do it.  One was setting up a dish on a camp out.  Another one was replacing one on a roof after new shingles.  It took about 27 minutes to view it.  The guy had the camera in one hand and a tool in the other hand.  Bad, bad, bad.  The camera never did focus on one part long enough to be able to tell what he was doing.  The last one I watch was nearly six minutes long.  It showed how to do it.  I watched four or five times.  Check the following link.     Dish alignment  video

The weather was cool and partly cloudy.

Comments are welcomed.

Here All Day

I don't get up as early during December.  Six to seven hours of sleep is the recommended amount of time in bed.  I did some reading in the Book of Mormon and It was nearly eight before I turned on the TV to watch the news.  Some rain fell during the night and everything was wet.  After breakfast, I walked out to the nursery; the drops of water were hanging from the branches like little glittering diamonds.  I took a few pictures.  My iPhone and my shaking hand doesn't do the best.

Tiger lately has been climbing the ladder getting on the garage.  She was down for breakfast and then went back up.

Carol wrapped the presents for Elizabeth and Noah.  While she was doing this I picked up a box and an envelop at the post office.  There is no charge for these.  Their presents would not fit into the padded envelop, but the box was perfect.

We heard someone on the roof which were the roofing guys.  It was a little before ten. They worked until about three.  The garage is nearly finished.  I thought that they would finished it today, but they left. 

I helped Carol with the pomegranate jelly.  She has saved the fruit from our pomegranate bushes for nearly two months.  There were two zip bags in the freezer.  We juiced them, cooked them, and put them in the bottle.  That went so well that we made some grape jelly from the grape juice that we bottled.   pomegranate jelly is on the left and grape jelly on the right.

I had an order for four Curl Leaf Mountain Mahogany.  They were outside and frozen solid.  I put them in house two to thaw out.  This afternoon I prepared them for shipping.  the procedure went well.  I didn't have the right size of a box.  I used two small boxes with two plants in each box.  I taped the two boxes together.  One large box is cheaper to ship than two small boxes. 

At the computer I began to prepare an invoice and discovered that the order was for four Silver Leaf Buffalo Berry plants.  I had to find another box.  It took me another hour box the plants.  I then had to unpack the others and take them back to the nursery.  I drove them to UPS transfer station.  The door was locked and I left them on the step.  This is how I packed them and I then unpacked them.

 When I returned from the UPS terminal.  Tiger was still on the roof.  I climbed up the ladder and she run away, but still on the roof.  I think she is frightened and will still be there when we get back tomorrow afternoon. 

Comments are welcomed.

Went to Fillmore for:

• Unclaimed property - Yester day we received a letter from the unclaimed property division of the state of Utah.  It was a little over $1100.  We had to take it too Fillmore and have a notary sign it.  We needed our driver's license and Social Security cards. 
• Food storage - We bought #10 cans of storage food for Robert, Lisa, and Eric.  Three cans each.  Potato flakes, dehydrated onions, flour, and a bag of  Cocoa mix.
• Some groceries - Just groceries.

Roofing Shingles    The hasn't been any roofing activity for a couple of days.  It was different today.  Ropers brought shingles for our house and garage.  The had a big fork lift that was used to get the shingles at roof level.  Two of them and later a third man came to unload the pallet and put the shingles on the ridge.  There were three or four pallets.  Picture is of the back or south side of the house.

 Next picture is the front or north side of the house. 

The front of the house has not yet been stripped clean of shingles.  A trailer is backed up next to the house with some plywood place as a slide so the shingles will end up in the trailer.  It takes a lot of maneuvering to back the trailer into that position with out much room to twist and turn.

Craft Show    There are quite a few crafty people in Holden and they organized a craft sale that started at four and ended at eight.  Carol bought a some towels that hang on the oven door.  They are gifts for some of our kids. 

Hanging Christmas balls   Yesterday morning we drove to Orem, Utah.  Carol was invited to a luncheon at Gary and O'leah's home.   Carol's sisters, Margery and Nyleen,  and her sister in-law, Leslie Peay were there.  They were honoring O'leah's whose health has really declined in the last few years.

Hair cut   Carol dropped me off in Linden where Miles cut my hair.  After that we had lunch in a Mexican restaurant in American Fork.  It was very good, and Miles paid for it.  I was a little slow to get my card out.  The picture below shows Christmas bulbs hanging from the ceiling.  I took a picture with and idea that we could do that in our house. 

Today I gave it a try.  I could not find a good place to hang them.  Finally in our family room.  It has a vaulted ceiling.  I hung them on the wall on the west wall where the vaulted ceiling begins.  I used some string from the chicken feed bags which are the same color as the wall.  Two of the fell loose so I used more tape to hold them.  The ceiling that is shown is in the kitchen,

Comments welcomed.

Christmas Cards 2016

Several weeks ago when Carol and I were up north; that is basically in Utah County, we bought some nice Christmas cards.  I made address labels of friends and family whom we mail cards to.  I have a box of labels 100 sheets with 33 labels on each sheet.  I bought them several years ago to mail catalogs to our nursery customers.  I don't do that any more. 

I found the label file on my computer and made an attempt to print the labels.  There was one problem.  In the box of labels was a different style and they did not fit the labels from the computer.  I spent four hours or so to two or three different days.  I could not get them to fit.  I decided to use the spread sheet and make my own label template.  I spent a lot of time on that and printed on recycled paper and it would not fit.  Recycled paper is a sheet with one side which is blank.  I filled a trash can with these.

I went back to the last years list and got out a new sheet of label paper.  It was a different style and fit perfectly.  La La, I made a sheet of labels in seconds.  I gave them to Carol and she began to stuff the envelops.  Carol wrote a Christmas greeting that she wanted to put in the card.  There were eight on each sheet.  I used card stock.  The four sheets produced 32 cards. 

The birth of the

Savior is a

Wonderful reason

To experience joy

& love, especially

This Christmas season

Have a

Wonderful Christmas

Our furnace has not been working properly for the last couple of weeks.  At nigh I set it at 62 degrees.  When I get up in the morning the temperature is in the 50's.  I have to turn it up 110 before the furnace kicks on.  I then turn it back to 70.  Most of the time it turns off at 65.  I then adjust it again to keep the house warm.  I called Andrew Brown several times and finally got a hold of him last night.  He came this morning and determined that the thermostat was malfunction.   He put on a knew  one and now it is working perfectly.  The new one will not turn on the A/C. but we don't kneed that until May or June.  He will be here Friday morning with the right thermostat.

Provo Trip

We drove to Utah County this morning and arriving there around 11:30.  We stopped at Walmart and then to Costco.  We had planned to have Carol's glass fixed.  The left hinge broke off the temple.  We used tape to hold it together.  The glass center at Costco don't repair or replace broken parts.  They told us to go to Shopco to have them fixed.  I took them into the eye department.  A lady there worked on them for about fifteen minutes.  She opened a drawer and pulled out four pair of used glasses that looked like she could use one of the temples on Carol's glasses.  She selected one of the temples and after several minutes trying to attach it to Carol's glasses.  She finally finished.  How much I asked.  She said nothing.  I thanked her and then went home.

We also stopped at the Distribution center.  An expensive nativity scene caught my eye.  I thought that I might be able to  the palm tree.

I Offered to Help, Roof Slippery

We were at the temple this morning and got home this afternoon.  One person working on the roof.  I told him that I would be willing to help for a little while.  He advised me to stay off the roof.  It was slippery.  I complied with that suggestion.

It took some skill to the truck and trailer into this position. The is between two trees.