Leesie - leesie

New Paint 2011-08-28

Porch

Kitchen window

Front gate

Front gate
We made these at a craft day at Christie's

Our shed

The back gate

shed
Dave bought me the antique window frame with the mirror in it for our anniversary.

Trip to Wenatchee

Wenatchee Valley
miles of fruit orchards, it's so beautiful

Ohme Gardens
one of the alpine meadows at Ohme Gardens

Ohme Gardens 2
Visitors stroll through the different areas of the garden. Each area is relatively private and very peaceful.

Ohme Gardens 3
There are stone pathways and paving all through the gardens, about a mile of pathways altogether

On top of the world
It is so peaceful in the gardens!

Ohme Gardens 4
One of the waterfalls. Each area has stone benches to just sit and contemplate.

View of the Wenatchee Valley and Columbia River

Looking down at the Columbia River
Fruit processing plants, like Treetop, line the water's edge.

Looking out over the Wenatchee Valley
Fruit processing plants

Rocky Reach Dam

Rocky Reach Dam
The fish ladder

Rocky Reach Dam Turbines

Rocky Reach Dam

Aplets & Cotlets

Aplets & Cotlets founders

Aplets & Cotlets fairies

Aplets & Cotlets 2
Cooking up a batch of cotlets

Aplets & Cotlets 3
Dave takes a look at the equipment. It smelled so good in this kitchen!

The packing area

Finished candies waiting to be boxed
The floor is covered with cornstarch and powdered sugar

Boxing the candies
The workers sort the candies into boxes on a moving conveyor belt a la Lucy and Ethel!

Seal of Approval

Finished boxes of deliciousness

My garden

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Dogwood tree

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Dogwood blooms up close

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Azaleas

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This little chipmunk comes by for breakfast most mornings

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Mock orange

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Sweet woodruff & rhododendrons

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yum, sunflower seeds

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A little visitor

Window box
I called this spider "george."

Mouse in my car

Mouse nest in the glove box
I googled and found out that mice get into Hondas a LOT

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I couldn't decide whether to use a trap or poison so I put both. It wasn't enough the mouse got caught on the trap, she dragged herself over to the poison and ate it, too

Most likely how they get in
they can run up the drainage tunnel and hop into the ventilation duct and right into the car!

Leads to ventilation system and into cabin
Mice can go directly into the car from here because the flap doesn't close all the way

Problem solved
Dave covered the opening with screen so mice can't get in anymore, yay!

Snow!

Merry Christmas!
12-20-2008

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This is a lot of snow for Port Orchard!

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Almost a foot of snow! 2008-12-22

Tiny House Photos

Welcome

Kitchen
We didn't have our barstools yet when I took this photo

Kitchen

Island

Island
Dave built me lots of storage in here

Kitchen
Laundry is in the closet

Kitchen

Merry Christmas!

My little office
This is my little office. That's a poster over the desk, not a window :-)

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Carport/shed project

Our little shed/carport
It is a pretty sad little shed... But, we really need the storage space and the attached carport, so it will be very useful once we repair it- it just needs a "little" work...

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Before

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This rotten roof has to come off

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now for the sawzall (or, saw-zaw, as Greg called it when he was little)

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A little help from the tractor

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There goes the first section

The He-Man at work

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Now to level the poor thing

It's getting there...
we had almost 6" difference from one side to the other

The eaves have to come off
so we can raise the carport side a little

uh-oh!
Suddenly- grandpa is ambushed by Claire and Liam!!

Heeeeeeeelp!

Raising the roof
to give the carport side some pitch

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Christie came over and helped *a lot* !
What would we do without her.

Laying underlayment

Hoisting up the shingles

Cement walkway
This is a big improvement over "the moat" we used to have, ha ha

My parking spot
soon!

Putting in door

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All sided

Starting on the carport
Post anchors

I cover the transit
I can't do much these days but I try to do what I can ;-)

Last post goes up

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Putting the carport back on

Christie & Dave roof the carport

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Celebrating the finished roof

Claire snoozes indoors

Liam walks a mile in grandpa's boots

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Our generator

A conference on whether to start the generator

Liam decides he'd rather not!

Finished!
Here is the final product, I think it looks a lot nicer

Front view
Here is the house and the finished carport. Now for landscaping!

Time to plant!

Here's the finished deal

Steps!

Getting started

synchronicity

Koos is one tough bird

Liam helped too
Claire is an indoors person- she was inside having hot chocolate

Water + Dirt = Fun

Almost there

That's enough for today

Voila!

Second set of steps
And here are the other steps. Davy did these ones by himself and I think they turned out really pretty. And they are so convenient!

Montana Trip

Me and my dear friend, Gail

First motorhome ever made?
This has been out to pasture in the wide open spaces for a long time, I'm sure. I always get a kick out of it when we drive by.