Moving along

When a co-worker moves to town, completely renovates the house they move into and can't stand looking at the nice old shed in the backyard - what do you do when they ask if you want it? Say "YES" of course... An insulated, lined, wired shed - 10'x14' with a walk-in door, a small over head door, and two windows....for FREE? Well of course we want it...especially since this is currently the shed over our well house -

Yes - it is on quite a slant...just from 2 corral panels leaning against it...its in DIRE need of replacement - what could be better!?

So on the appointed Saturday, one would take their child to spend the morning with Grandma, load up the truck with blocks, jacks, straps, screws, drills, measuring tapes and whatever else might be needed; hook the tractor up to the stack-mover and mosey into town. In a few minutes there would be a shed on a trailer and away we'd go home again right? Well...in a perfect world maybe...instead...this is how it went:

We DID drop Lolo off at Grandma's, and made it down to B & L's by 9am as we planned...we got the front of the shed jacked up with little difficulty...

But you may notice that the bottom of the shed is still far below the trailer...

This is because the neighbors next door are building a new house and have done a bunch of dirt work in the yard, which for now, make their yard a lot lower than B & L's yard...and even with the stack mover fully tilted, we couldn't get it anywhere near the ground!

So...we got a little creative...

But it still was not enough!

That was the only side of the shed that we could get in straight on, so, we backed the trailer in as close to straight as we could on the south side, and then...

We wrapped 3 tow straps around the building, had it up on several long timbers and pulled it around square with the trailer.

Now that it was square with the trailer, they felt the need to screw a couple 2x6's on underneath to brace the floor so the chains on the stack mover wouldn't just pull on the first floor beam and pull it out from under the shed...

Notice there are just two feet showing...that is my husband under there...

And now for the moment of truth:

UP...

UP...

On...ready to go...

And Away...

Home sweet home....

This is not actually the final resting place however...we need to build a foundation and get the wiring/electrical disconnected from the old building, then move this into place....someday!?

We're very happy to have this building...I think it will lose its yellow hue. Any suggestions on what color to go with? I think it will probably end up white with a green tin roof, like we have purchased for the rest of the buildings.

In its final resting place this building will serve many functions. It will be over the well, it will be right next to the planned cattle chute - so when we're doctoring or loading cattle, we'll have a protected place to keep records, medication or kids :), it will likely be home for the lawnmower - thanks to the small overhead door...and/or it will be the tack shed for our horse stuff....time will tell!

Summer fun

A couple weekends ago my SIL had her family visiting from the states and was kind enough to invite us all over for a grand BBQ on Saturday evening. It was a perfect evening and the kids had a ton of fun playing in the back yard. The bigger kids ran down to the park and played HARD and we enjoyed a TON of great food and good conversation. There's not much for pictures besides Lorelei...what can I say, I tend to watch her a lot, so I take a lot of pictures of her!

Yummy dried apple rings!

Oh yes, there WERE other people there too!

The other day I found the cutest ever hat at Superstore of all places... My sweet little girl is modeling it while enjoying the simple things in country life - a stick and a nice apple for a snack!

Cousin Liam found a BIGGER stick!

A little stray kitten showed up while we were visiting outside one Sunday afternoon after meeting....very cute and playful, but not real healthy!

Oh yes, summer fun would not be complete for Trevor unless this was pictured...probably more than once would be his preference, but this is my blog right? Here's one of the tractors - this one is going to be in the Bill Klassen Auctions Annual Consignment sale on the August long weekend

Bye Bye #8....er is that #9? I can't remember which is which anymore! We just call this one Daviduck...

Its a Blog day!

So it is currently...very warm here! Something like 32 degrees and 75% humidity...ouch...so while Lorelei sleeps, I'm down in the basement....blogging...and avoiding the heat! Its nice and cool down here, if you ignore the slightly musty smell and the few spots of mold on the wall....ergh...that just reminds me of how much work we need to do down here! I think I need to invest in a dehumidifier too, but this is not a shopping list or a to do list...so lets get on to the fun stuff!

There is a little retro blogging warranted I think - lets start with...hmm...well we bought a new(er) van, but I don't have any pictures of it...so I guess I won't spend too much time on that! We've had a lot of rain this summer so far, but the last couple weeks have been hot and dry! We've done some fencing, some haying, some gardening, some travelling....ok lets start there -

Over the July long weekend we enjoyed a 3 day bible conference in Regina - it was a beautiful weekend with some wonderful ministry to be absorbed, great fellowship and of course some good food. We stayed with "Grandma Harriet" whom Lorelei has fondly asked about several times in the last month "Go see Gramma Harriet?" "where's Gramma Harriet?" "Gramma Harriet's house?" Its fun to see her starting to remember the people she meets and connecting them. She can point out many of the people in the photos on our fridge and correctly identify them. She often asks where her different friends are - "Where's Connor? (or insert one of many names here!). Then there is of course, my reply "At his house..." then the inevitable "Why?" But its quite nice to know that she's thinking and learning an connecting to other kids!

Here she is with one of her friends who sat near us during the meetings - they're about a year apart and they happened to randomly have the same dress on on Sunday - different colors but the same print, brand and style - so cute! H wasn't quite as happy to get a picture taken as Lolo was!

Sweet little man with a sweet bigger man!

Little Mr C keeping a close eye on his little cousin...."That looks dangerous (or maybe fun?!)" Everyone had to cuddle with "The Little One" and get their baby fix!

Daddy and Lolo get in some Tractor Time between meetings