2016-08-28. Week at Rosewold

#1 ◱ Joseph operating the trencher we rented. We will install water pipes around the property.

#2 ◱ The is the "before" picture of our old barn. We hope in a few months to have an "after" picture of a garage with a room above it, on the same footprint as the old barn.

#3 ◱ Wells Fargo Wagon is a coming down the street, oh please let it be for me.

#4 ◱ Yes, it's for me. It is our new Swann video surveillance system.

#5 ◱ Teaching Kekoa how to get his fingers into the gloves.

#6 ◱ The cornerstones of each cell of the Waffle. Each cell will be a raised-bed garden patch 4x4 on the outside and 32x32 on the inside.

#7 ◱ Joseph uses Betsie, our Brush Mower, to remove the brush around the berry tree.

#8 ◱ Visitor and friend Shaun Parry shows Alex something as Joseph looks on.

#9 ◱ Shaun Parry, Alex, and Alex's grandma

#10 ◱ Raised bed garden cells in the background. Isaac and Don working in the foreground, removing nails. Boy, Don has put on a lot of weight.

#11 ◱ A lovely pile of boards ready to be used for a project in a few days.

#12 ◱ One cell of the Waffle. If you look closely you can see the paracord lines on the ground.

#13 ◱ Waffle cells.

#14 ◱ Boards from the pallets that the cement blocks came on.

#15 ◱ Joseph and Mikey unload 29 sticks of 1.5x20 PVC for our water system.

#16 ◱ Alex and Shaun work on making cookies.

#17 ◱ These cookies are being made on the outside of glass custard cups. The theory is that after the cookies are baked, the cups can be removed and we will be left with cookies shaped like bowls. Which we then fill with ice cream, obviously.

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#19 ◱ The cookies are done. They look yummy. Shaun and Alex.

#20 ◱ Nice rainbow over the neighbor's tractor barn.

#21 ◱ Well, the custard cups were not removable after all, but we can still eat out of them.

#22 ◱ Redneck Elegance. A full-size bed in a shipping container, complete with chandelier and library.

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#24 ◱ Lois and Don on ladders, installing the new Swann cameras.

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#26 ◱ Lois holds them in place while Don runs screws through from the other side.

#27 ◱ Here is Don drilling and putting in those screws.

#28 ◱ You can see where the wires are coming in through a hole in the wall.

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#30 ◱ Shaun shows off his cookie creation.

#31 ◱ This is what the cookie bowl looks like on the bottom.

#32 ◱ Shaun in Joseph's armor.

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#34 ◱ Deer from outer space invading our gardens.

#35 ◱ More deer from outer space. See the spooky eyes?