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Homestead Days

In mid-June, Beatrice has Homestead Days which includes all sorts of events for a week. One of those was concerts. We caught one by the Tallgrass Prairie Express String Band. The violinist was quite the character and played more than one instrument. It was pretty neat. Will have to make an annual thing about it but go with more time to explore next year.

New Door

I finally have a door on my bedroom (versus the curtain that went up just last summer). Actually, the door itself (less the hardware) was hung the day after Easter. I finally finished at the beginning of June doing the staining and putting on the hardware. I've never stained wood before, so it was pretty exciting to finally do something like that.

Frame done. Door still naked.

All stained. Waiting for hardware.

Ta da! :)

Graduation

Somewhere near the end of May, Nikki graduated from pre-school and Ivy graduated from pre-pre-school...or something like that. Anyway...a couple photos from that...

Nikki gets her cap and diploma.

She can't read it, but she's happy to have it.

Basement Work

I have started having work done in the basement piecemeal. Ultimately, I would like to have a 100% finished basement. In the meantime, it has other things that need to be done first. Besides, it is expensive (ungodly expensive) and so it almost has to be done in pieces. First I had some anchors put in and insulation done. Next will be waterproofing. Here's what the anchor work looked like.

Before...

Another part of the basement before...

During...

Outside during...

More outside during...

Done-ish...with the anchors, anyway. These ended up getting covers put over them.

After...and somehow, I'm going to remember and be able to tighten these monthly. Riiiight.

April Showers Bring May...Thunderstorms?

We had some pretty good storms in May. Caught some evidence...

Aw hail.

I wish I could have posted the video with the huge crack of thunder, but it was way too big a file to post. :( That particular storm, we had hail, watches, warnings, a lot of rain...and it smelled so good!