Pole Barn and BBQ

This past Saturday was a gold-star day!

We started early in morning in the pole barn. It was filled with old firewood and random lumber, plus the few yard tools James had retrieved from storage.

(Let's talk about storage a minute. Because James and I are doing so much renovation to this house, when we moved in we only brought a few necessities - two beds, two chairs, and seven pieces of furniture that were too heavy for us to handle by ourselves. We have one pan, one pot, two forks and spoons, and  enough clothes for two months. Everything else is in storage. There was just no reason to fill the house up and then start shuffling things around for carpenters and painters.)

So back to the pole barn, it needed cleaning out and organizing. I forgot to take a "before" picture, so all I have to offer are these "afters".

We are excited to get the kayaks home because we live between two awesome sand bar filled rivers!

 Once the pole barn was clean and picked up, we were off to Tractor Supply for 3 cow panels to fence off a nice large, covered kennel for Fred and Ethel. Over the next couple of months, there are going to be workers in and out of here and they won't want to contend with two big, stinky dogs. Plus Ethel is a thief and would haul off gloves, paint brushes, and tools.

Livestock panels are an awesome alternative to rolls of wire. They are sixteen feet long by around four feet tall and are easy to cut with good wire cutters, but most of all they much easier to handle. Rolled fencing wants to stay rolled and will fight you to do so, fence panels maintain their straight, flat shape. I used these for the chicken yard at Turkey Creek Garden and they were perfect for this kennel project.

As our reward for a morning of hard work, we headed into town for one of Summits "On the Tracks" events.  In the Spring, they hold BBQing on the Tracks. James enjoyed the car show and I enjoyed some delicious Redneck Nachos. The band was good and as we enjoyed watching people dancing in front of the stage, we were reminded of how much closer we are to the Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler vibe of the Gulf Coast.

It really was a gold star day!

Love ya'll, Shelli

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

~Margaret Thatcher