Down Mulberry Lane

Coming home...

My husband has been gone for several days.  He went on a trip to Maryland to a Katahdin Hair Sheep International  Convention.  He went with a friend and they were splitting travelling costs.  He hauled sheep out for North Dakota State University, some cows to someone in New York State, and a couple sheep him and his friend were selling.  One ram of ours went to Canada.  On the way home, Dh was asked to transport some more sheep closer towards home (from the sale at the convention).  He agreed and found all his expenses paid, plus the cost of his new ram he purchased, plus the cost of a bale feeder.  He was quite pleased.  But in all of that... HE is coming home today!  We are all so excited.

My sister stopped by to say hello.  My nephew had a football game today in a town nearby and they swung by to say hello.  My little Paige was screaming... He's home, he's all done driving, Daddy's home... and as she drove up, she says... Oh it's Aunt Chrissy, she's here, she's here!  Her excitement still ran high, she just changed names.  LOL.  Dh said he might not be home until late this evening.  I hope he makes it home before Paige falls asleep.  She is getting tired already, but she is so looking forward to seeing Daddy.  These fall nights with the darkness moving in earlier each night has got her confused, but in her mind it is time for bed.  Bedtime is usually 9pm, but she went and got pajamas on at 7:00 because the sky was getting "blue-dark". 

We've been busy while Dh was away.  We tried to get much accomplished and hoped to have a bit more taken care of than I could actually manage, but I am still pleased with what we got done.  The garage was cleaned out.  The outdoor mudroom was half-cleaned out... the items that would freeze from the fire storage were put away.  We got about 1/3 of our outdoor porch/deck stained.  We would have finished today, if there wasn't rain in the forecast, but we are expecting rain over the next day or two, so didn't get it finished.  We have the railings, the lower outer boards, and the south section of the floor left to do.  I got the area around the wood stove cleaned out  (I had fire storage there as well, and that is put away!  WOO HOO!).  I then treated myself by rearranging the living room for winter's use.  The girls put up the rest of the curtains that were off from the fire in the downstairs.  (I will be resewing curtains for the kitchen when it is finished, and curtains for the front porch/laundry room. )  I found homes for the linen that has been washed... got all the storage area washed out so I was able to replace them to the linen closet in the bathroom.  It is no longer sitting on top of the entertainment center and my coffee tables in my living room!!  We took out the leaf from the dining room table and are settled back into our 6 seated family table.  I went through my clothing and sorted it by color and got three large bags of clothing to give away.  I put that out into the car for the next trip to town with two boxes of books, CD's, and toys to unload as well.  I got the camper winterized!  The tupperware was sorted!  My room was slightly rearranged to make room for the health rider and the grandfather clock that doesn't fit in our living room.  And (yes there is more!  Woo HOO!)  I went through 3 boxes in the upstairs storage area and got them sorted and put away.  And I also sorted the SS materials for the primary class that I teach so that I know what is available for me to use.  It is sorted in boxes and ready to return to the church.  WHEW! 

The girls helped by canning more tomatoes for me while I was doing much of the cleaning.  They washed the outdoor porch/deck before the staining, and started the staining.  Kate did about 1/3 of the flooring that was done and Megan did the front steps.  I finished off the rest of the gallon on the flooring, so the north west part of the porch is sealed, short of the railings.  I didn't want to do railings with my skirt  and new shirt on... I knew it would spray me and I didn't want to change my clothes!  LOL  Poor excuse, but progress was made.  I finished up the gallon just about 15 minutes before sundown on Friday evening, so I was tired.  The girls prepared our Sabbath meal while I stained the deck.   It looks so much nicer!  And the water beads up on the wood, now... it so needed a new seal; it was quite weathered! 

Anyways, I better go spiff up what fell apart during the day today so it is ready for Dh's arrival home.  I am hoping to clean out the mudroom before he arrives home, but I'll need to get busy to get that done. 

Warmly, ~Melissa

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10:37 PM, September 28, 2008 .. Posted by heritagehill

How wonderful that all of his expenses were covered plus! I love it when things like that happen.
I am amazed at all of the things you got done while hubby was gone, it would have taken me months to get all of those things done. LOL
Marilyn