Sounds Familiar

You know all those Christmas toys ...

Sometimes I think this also relates to life ... 

I just wasn't quite ready for that change.

COLD! ... Sleepin' In.

I don't know what it is about dogs choosing the most awkward looking positions to sleep in ... These two decided to stack it up (for warmth).  It's below freezing outside and bitter cold besides.  I know, because I just walked them.  

I guarantee that it was a short walk!

Visitors

There were those who decided to come visit for linner.

And brought friends with them.

Caught without a weird face ... Ha!

The other boy.

and Miss I'm-Trying-To-Avoid-The-Camera ... :)

Ikea Chair Failure

The patch board just broke this afternoon.

Gotta try something else ...

sigh.

Tiny White Flakes

Little itty bitty snowflakes floating on the breeze this morning.

How's Your Weather Today?

In "L.A." we are getting a bit of rain, but things should clear somewhat later & tomorrow and get a bit colder.  Looks like snow along the Columbia River, southern Idaho, parts of Utah & western Colorado.  There's a snow storm still dragging eastward through Kansas.  And another that has gone through Nashville and is spread NE along the Appalachian Mountains.  Elsewhere, SoCal and AZ look like rain.  As does the Southeast.  Some lake effect snow in western PA and western NY.

Otherwise, today it's kids to camp and horse riding under the covered arena.  Grilled hotdogs, chips, etc. for lunch and toasted marshmallows for dessert.  In other matters, Gma's driver's license was revoked indefinitely, and the state trooper office wasn't able to find out why.  She is going to have to break out the bicycle and walk more.  

Took the piled up wood to the local landfill yesterday.  That just leaves aluminum to clean up and sell to the recycle place.  In the meantime I am attempting to unbolt the floor section from the trailer.

Piles

This is the walls and roof of the trailer knocked down in smaller chunks and stacked in a pile.  There's a stack of aluminum siding.  

And the roof is rolled up in its own pile.

Peel the Lid Off

 

What you don't see here is all the fiberglass insulation ... 

which we put in large hefty trashbags.

The grandsons loved the "destruction" part of de-construction.

I need the refrigerator vent for future use.  

And maybe there is some recoverable lumber that I can re-use.

BUT, I'm too tired to do anything more about it today.  :)

Did I mention that we did all of this AFTER the bicycle ride that the grandsons insisted on ... including the descent and re-climbing of the nearest STEEP hill ... using single-speed bicycles?

Oops!

It fall down, go boom ...

all in the name of progress.

Scary to step inside ...

With the aluminum off the sides ...

and this front panel dropped out ...

The walls kind of rock from side to side.

REALLY scary to step inside.

Worry about the roof coming down on me.

Oh Despair! -- It Died

My favorite chair from Ikea!  My reading spot.  A retreat from the hectic.

I was just sitting there reading when I heard this wood cracking sound.  Then suddenly one side of the chair gave-way and fell back against the wall.  That's the section where the two bolts go through from the side.  

Oh Despair!  What shall I do now?!

Halfway Stripped

No doors or windows.  Need to get that awning off there.

and tear off all the siding.  I'm pooped.  Need a bath, but we only have a shower.

Lotsa Wires

There are lots of wires ... 

I'm sure they connect up to something useful.

That's why I took a picture of them ...

So that I can remember that they used to go to something.

:-)

Now that we have exposed all that, 

I rushed off to spend the next 8+ hours seeing kids.

Working in Morning

While the wife and I were working this morning,

these two were doing doggy things ...

like napping and shredding the newspaper.

The wife and I measured openings and relationship to the center of the axles.  Then we pulled all the siding and insulation off one side of the trailer.

Then I had to go do "real" work.