Tuesday April 21 2009

This is the Wyoming Range which is to our West.

You can get this view from up the street.

Pine Creek runs just over the sagebrush hill.

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Here is Raven on our walk yesterday.

I mainly wanted to show you how things

are getting green here now!!

Trees and willows are still totally bare.

This was an interesting day. Warmer, but still breezy. Finished up the housecleaning and laundry which carried over from yesterday, so that is done and hope it will last for a while.

Yesterday afternoon Dave the house builder called and said he was ahead on his schedule and could be here today to start working on our punch list. I told him we would be here and to come on ahead. He has another house in Daniel, the same as ours, and was there doing their list. No, I don't know what all that one involved, but they finished it all up yesterday. He said it was a long and hard working day for them.

So he and three helpers arrived about 1 p.m. here and got right to work - one is a friend, one a nephew and one his son-in-law. So far most of the things are already corrected. They will be back tomorrow to finish the rest. We had about 30 things on our list, nothing hugely major, many just annoyances that a person could live with. They fixed plumbing in the crawl space where the condensate from the furnace in the attic had been piped down and should have been connected into the sewer system pipe, but was left to drain onto the crawl space floor - that is fixed now. They put in a new kitchen sink, which was scratched in installation - the son-in-law said he did it when he put it in. They fixed the torn screens in a jiffy. Tightened up that humongous chandelier over the dining room table and assured me it wasn't going to come crashing down. They got Joe's jacuzzi tub going - wiring had come loose, and he thought probably it wasn't hooked up right at the factory. One of them fixed that ugly hole where the TV wiring comes in in my bedroom putting on a receptacle. They got paint which Pinedale Lumber was able to match to the walls to touch up three walls that had places that didn't match the original wall color. He put some on the wall to cover one of the spots and it looks better, will see when it dries if it matches. If it is still noticeable they will paint the whole walls.

Tomorrow the biggest thing is they will work on that septic tank outlet that I put the photo of on the other day and get a drain for the water, and put some gravel in there and fill it so the ground is level. They will paint the walls, fix holes in the drywall and paint those repairs, fix some cracked cement in the garage, glue and nail some rug molding down, look at all the electrical outlets, fix a can light that doesn't work - there's more I can't think of offhand. Surely they will be here most of the day to get the rest of it done. In the meantime we got a little acquainted. They are are all very nice. Joe was able to personally ask him all the questions that he has had and got the answers.

Dave and his family lived here in a trailer while he built the house. His daughter was pregnant and started getting sick. She and the son-in-law flew home and turned out that she had a brain tumor. It wasn't malignant, but very dangerous for both of them, the drs. didn't expect the baby would live. Sounded like such a scary story, but she and the baby are fine now. The baby's first birthday is tomorrow. So many people having such terrible difficulties.

So that was our day. We went to the Chinese restaurant for dinner. I'm kind of wired tonight. Joe fell asleep in the chair, well that's nothing new though. At least he can sleep good. I sure keep noticing that I feel a lot better when things are going on and people are around.

Betty called and a friend of hers is a missionary in Africa. Her father passed away and they lived in Cedar City which isn't far from Mesquite, so Betty is going up there tomorrow to go to the funeral and take some pictures for her friend, who can't come from Africa now. The rest of the story is that our other high school friend Nancy who is from Coos Bay OR is down visiting her sister in Caliente, also near Mesquite, and she and her sister will drive over to Cedar City to have lunch with Betty. I will be envious not to be there with them, but Betty will fill me in.