We are home

This story is pretty upside down good luck navigating through the pictures and verbage. Jack

plus as usual some spelling problems

So she painted a winter scene on the tarp!!

What a woman!

I was up stairs thinking I had a job well done and the wood would be dry this winter and looked out the window and there was Joyce with paint bucket brush and some rags making scenery on the old brown tarp. I just laughed and laughed, that's my Joyce.

I built a wood shed very soon after we returned home. Sort of used a couple of trees that God had provide in a nearly square pattern and some poles . I have hundreds of these little poles that will be eliminated when the forestry thinning happens so I might as well use them for something creative and guess what they made a not pretty but practial dry place to store our winters wood. Joyce said it looked good when this look was presented, but the front was open so I put a big brown tarp up and then she DID NOT like the brown tarp.

these pictures get all tangled up you have to do your own detective work to get this blog together, it is beyond me.

They love these quilts. Joyce was very happy to give them to the ladies as they refused any payment. and we were very pleased with their care of our place.

Brenda and Denise watched our house while we were away and spoiled our horses grooming them every day and caring for them. Joyce made them each a frilly quilt and they were so excited.

I brought the rear seat metal home with me for the Model T. I found this part in the hay loft of the Gates barn and again Wes gave it to me. I have the plans to build the wood frame, that was how they were built but after 90 years the old model t body is almost all gone and for sure the wood. I have a friend who has a sawmill and he is going to mill some Black Oak lumber for me and I already have the plans . At my age I need to get started on this project. Joyce and I normally don't buy green bananas.

My cousin Wes Gates gave me this tool box while we were in Hillsboro visiting them. I put a new bottom on it and painted it and now it is my special tool box. My tools which were scattered all over the barn now have a place to live. Thanks Wes.

Model T oregon visit

We are home from our Oregon visit. had a great time visiting with all the Oregon relatives. Cottage Grove looked at homes to buy, Hillsboro, visited the Gates farm and Red Vandehey who I had not seen in years. There we, Wes and I and with help from the younger generation got the model T on four good tires. 

I found a back seat in the hay loft of the barn and Wes said I was welcome to it. I was able to disassemble it and get all the parts in the rear storage area of the motor home and brought it home with me. Now I will be working on the back seat and seat cushions. A backwards approach but then I never have been to conventional.

                                                

Then we went to Vernonia for the Webb visits enjoyed their company and hospitality for a week or so.

                                                

This is Don Tiffany a life long friend of mine. This Don actually caught the fish, while he and Don Webb were fishing together near Clatsknie Oregon in Th e Columbia River.

Don caught a 40 pound salmon while we were there and fillet it and sent some home with us. We then went back to Hillsboro for a bit more model t work .

Then on to Cottage Grove for more house hunting and mostly getting to know the areas and how it could work for us when we moved there.

Hally and nick have a Tortoise Robin found on the street. It was a rare African variety and eventually was given to a person who would take good care of it. We thought it was a turtle and put it in water and left it outside. Being a Tortoise it was so cold it would not eat, so it was a good thing Robin found and expert. The Great Grandchildren were not so sure about it.

Robins quilting room, which is a remodeled double garage attached to their house in Cottage Grove

Last but not least we visited with our grand adults, they are not children, Mike and Rebecca Fouquette, in Concord Ca .
Our lace was well taken care of by Brenda and Denise they took care of the horses and kept order while we were gone.