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Ahh the first grass cutting of the year…

Well it was about time. The area around the house that the dogs keep fertilized was darn near knee high. Honestly though with all the rain and our schedule. Tonight was the first night I had opportunity to get on a lawnmower.

 

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But we Got-r-Dun. Well about 80% of it anyway, at least the part that counts. But I did mow the field where the barn’s gonna go. Michael had 4 teeth pulled today so he sat this one out.

The only new problem we have is Moles.

We are being over-run with moles. I need a sure-fire solution to trap those little $@@%#’s. We have a barn cat but it’s about as usless as Monty it appears. We have more mole runs and squishy turn than ever before.

I guess, I could just consider them pets, and not have to worry about them anymore.

But I just don’t like sinking in my yard when I walk.

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Flip-n-Twist Meet Results

Molly competed yesterday at the Flip-N-Twist Invitational a local meet that was held at Lakota West High School.  (What a nice facility by the way).

She did very, very well.  She came in 4th Overall for her age group in Level Four.  She notched a 1st place in Beam, 4th in Bars, a 7th in Vault and I think 11th in floor.  I might have the last two switched.  Vault is such a messed up event at this level.  All the vaults are same, they all look the same.  I mean it’s really hard to tell an 8.xx vs. a 9.xx in vault.  A good vault is a good vault, and a bad one is bad.  But it’s very tough and the judging for vault really seems to vary meet to meet.

This was her best Beam performance yet, and probably her best Bar routine yet too even though the scoring didn’t really indicate that.

Molly’s final meet of the season will be the state championships for Level 4 & 5 in St Mary’s OH the weekend of April 21st.  We still don’t know when she will be competing yet.

We’re very proud of her.

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Springtime Maintenance

Spring time…

Time to clean up the yard, fire up the mower, pickup all the sticks (logs) that have fallen out of the trees.

Ugh, I need to do some maintenance on the the o’l BobCat Zero turn.

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It’s time for complete fluid changes. Oil and Hydro drive fluids. I put this off last year because the design of this thing is not so hydro-drive oil change friendly.

Now the walk behind has its issues too. I broke the starting rope this winter trying to start it to move it out of the way. No good.

My record with re-stringing pull starts is not a positive one. I think I’m like 0-3. Generally I end up taking the cover off, and to get to the old rope that’s left you have to take the winder thing out. Somewhere along there, that’s when I here the ‘ping’ and “Pssst??? as the spring unwinds and everything falls apart. I’m not sure that I’ve ever gotten it put back together. Nope, not on a lawnmower, or weed whacker, so we’ll have to see how this goes.

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Making progress in the Attic

Alright!

So we’ve framed out the rafters across one side.  Now we need to deal with what we’re going to cover them with.

Our original thought was wood paneling, you know the wainscot looking board, but the unfinished stuff is outrageous right now.  The dimensions are also screwed up.  Still per sq foot it’s probably the best bet.

I did find some nice unfinished flooring at lumber liquidators that would be awesome. (Yeah flooring on the walls) but in this old house it would rock!

I’m going to look into some tongue and groove boards, 12″x some really long length and see if it is in any way shape economical.  I doubt it but it would far easier to put up than something that runs vertically.

Heck anything that runs horizontally will be far easier to put up.

We still need to box in the sky-lights too, but that’s a “We’ll figure it out when we get there” kind of thing.

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