Raspberries
We went on our first raspberry hunt the other day. Olivia, Zach and I went wandering in the meadow and picked a bunch of them. I wasn't sure if the kids would like them but they gobbled them as fast as they could be picked.
We have a cherry tree that was full of beautiful red cherries and leaves. It had a chicken wire fence around it to protect it. Elena and I decided that it looked big enough that it didn't need protecting. We were wrong. Very wrong. The next day we saw that there weren't any leaves or cherries below six feet. The whole tree is about ten feet. The deer had eaten everything. Now the tree looks very insignificant and sad.
I went over to Paul's to help with his siding project. He had some old hardboard stuff that was getting rotten and had gotten some cement-board stuff for free from some relatives who work at a plant that makes it. I felt at times that we were in a Three-Stooges show. We put housewrap on the side of the garage and that went up well but everything afterwards just went downhill. We cut some starter strips and laid them out and had most of them up when at the far side we were running into the cement foundation and we weren't going to nail through that. So we ripped everything out and started over. Nothing was going our way. The sheathing behind the siding was rotten so we needed to nail through the siding and into studs. AJ ran the stud finder and marked what he thought were the studs. Last time he ever runs that machine. Anyway, we made chalk lines on his mark and started nailing away. We had gotten about three rows up when I noticed from the other side that we weren't hitting the studs. On top of them being poorly marked they weren't 16" on center. Man alive. We spent most of our time hunting for the studs and marking up the housewrap with different notes on where the studs were. The siding only covers 5" vertically so going up is a very slow process. We struggled through getting it to about seven feet up and then I had to get going. We hadn't even done one side of the garage and he has a good sized house.
We went to Elena's 10 year high school reunion at The Oaks. I talked with Jarred Scheridan whom I haven't seen in a good long while. We were in boy scouts together and in lifeguarding. We sat with some of Elena's old friends Darcy and Jamie and their significant others.
We have a cherry tree that was full of beautiful red cherries and leaves. It had a chicken wire fence around it to protect it. Elena and I decided that it looked big enough that it didn't need protecting. We were wrong. Very wrong. The next day we saw that there weren't any leaves or cherries below six feet. The whole tree is about ten feet. The deer had eaten everything. Now the tree looks very insignificant and sad.
I went over to Paul's to help with his siding project. He had some old hardboard stuff that was getting rotten and had gotten some cement-board stuff for free from some relatives who work at a plant that makes it. I felt at times that we were in a Three-Stooges show. We put housewrap on the side of the garage and that went up well but everything afterwards just went downhill. We cut some starter strips and laid them out and had most of them up when at the far side we were running into the cement foundation and we weren't going to nail through that. So we ripped everything out and started over. Nothing was going our way. The sheathing behind the siding was rotten so we needed to nail through the siding and into studs. AJ ran the stud finder and marked what he thought were the studs. Last time he ever runs that machine. Anyway, we made chalk lines on his mark and started nailing away. We had gotten about three rows up when I noticed from the other side that we weren't hitting the studs. On top of them being poorly marked they weren't 16" on center. Man alive. We spent most of our time hunting for the studs and marking up the housewrap with different notes on where the studs were. The siding only covers 5" vertically so going up is a very slow process. We struggled through getting it to about seven feet up and then I had to get going. We hadn't even done one side of the garage and he has a good sized house.
We went to Elena's 10 year high school reunion at The Oaks. I talked with Jarred Scheridan whom I haven't seen in a good long while. We were in boy scouts together and in lifeguarding. We sat with some of Elena's old friends Darcy and Jamie and their significant others.
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