During the past week, we went to Lowe’s and purchased some pieces for our patio. The chairs were already assembled but we had to assemble the table ourselves. After a lot of struggling with the primitive tools that came with the parts and some tools I bought last week, we finally got it together. Next time, I’m paying the assembly fee and save myself the blister I got.
Verna picked out some southwestern seat cushions for the chairs (pattern in the inset). Click on the image to enlarge.
Hi – this is Cabela. I am at the new house with my hoomins and Bear. We don’t have a lot of furniture yet but I do have my squeaky toy and a lot of other toys. I just love to play with my toys and I especially like to play with the squeaky toy. I like to make it go squeak and I like to chew on it.
You can watch me squeaking my toy. The Daddy took this movie of me in the new house while I was playing.
On Tuesday, Verna climbed to the top of the little hill behind our house and took a couple of shots of the house and the surrounding area. I usually do the panoramas but I was talking to the construction crew that came to install the cable feed. Later, when I was looking at the pictures she took I thought that the pair from the hill would make a nice panoramic image so I stitched them together. Click on the image below to see the full panorama.
We drove down the Surprise today to pick up some things for the new house at Wal Mart and Lowe’s. On our way back into town, I snapped this photo of a nice Saguaro Cactus against a very blue mid-afternoon sky. Click on the image to enlarge.
We reported on our temporary cable installation over two weeks ago. A crew finally showed up today to dig the permanent trench and install the conduit to house the cable.
We were surprised by the extent of the installation process. Three men showed up with sophisticated equipment and had the entire job completed in less than three hours.
They had a pneumatic tool that bored holes through the earth, a pneumatic earth compactor and a gas-powered trench digger that cut an eight inch by one foot deep trench 30 feet long in less then five minutes. Verna photographed the trench digger while it was in action. Click on the image to enlarge.
Our internet and CATV is working just fine now, without the worry that one of the trucks bringing materials for our new courtyard will damage the cable that was buried in a shallow trench and had surfaced in some places on the road in front of the house.
A truck with a forklift delivered five palettes of concrete blocks and two palettes of mortar to the house today. We expect that the masons will show up any time this week to continue working on the courtyard.
We are looking forward to finishing the courtyard and getting gates installed so we can let the dogs out in the daytime.
Image: Sunset over the concrete blocks and mortar. Click image to enlarge.
A crew is scheduled to show up tomorrow to permanently install the internet/TV cable. When we had the cable installed a couple of weeks ago, the technician had to dig a temporary ditch to bury the cable feed to the terminal across the road. Lately, the cable has been exposed in a few places which made us worry that it might be damaged.
