Hi there,
Last night Samson didn't bark (I'm glad) so we all slept pretty good and woke up to a sunny day outside. I was cleaning up the front part of our house (we call it that because our house is all one room with the bathroom closed off with a curtain)this morning and there was a pile of garbage there so I took it out and noticed that all the barrels were full (we only have two barrels for burning and the other two go to the dump in town) and since they were full I decided to burn it. The burn barrel is across the field to the NE and there was more garbage than what was in the barrels so I used the sled to haul the stuff over. That was at 9:00 a.m. and I after I burned the garbage I looked at the clock inside and it said 9:54 a.m. it might not be exactly right but it does take time to burn the garbage.
Last night as I wrote last post it was storming out and the rain was coming down pretty hard and what I didn't write was that we had heard thunder. At first we weren't sure and thought that it was our tarp flapping in the wind but then we heard it more and louder and were soon sure that it was thunder. We brought in Selah (because she is always scared of loud bangs like a rifle and when she was a puppy the first night that it stormed with thunder she was really scared and wanted to come in but we didn't let her in so she must have thought that something was out to get her and ran away and we couldn't find her until our neighbor called and said she had seen her) until the storm gone down and the thunder quit and then let her outside again. The rain turned to snow and then this morning there was about a half an inch of snow and a few 6 inch deep drifts. That soon melted away and created more mud and slush. It sounds like the dogs will bark tonight because we can hear the coyotes and when the dogs hear them they start to howl. A German Shepherd howl sounds kind of funny and Selah can howl almost like a coyote.
This afternoon I started making a wooden box but the problem is we don't have many scrap boards or even good boards but we did have a few left over scrap ash boards so I used those. I hope I'll sleep good tonight!
Peter
Friday, March 31, 2006
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Thursday
Hello,
It is another dreary day today. I woke up and looked outside and it was foggy, misting, muddy, and windy. Sometimes when it has been warm and is windy the puddles of water that are on the roof splash off and gets the front area all wet. Our roof is a ~30' x 40' tarp, that is why the water blows off when the wind makes the tarp rise. We have square bales of hay for insulation in the roof so we just covered them with the tarp. Last winter we had fiberglass insulation inside in the floor joists and the roof leaked (because there wasn't enough hot weather for the tar to seal the rolled roofing properly) and the insulation got wet and we had to take it outside and then it got all messy so we couldn't use it. In case your wondering we (Dad, Jonathan, Andrew, David, Uncle Mark and I) built our house by ourselves except for the cement. We had a contractor do that part. Later on we met Steve (mountain fire keeper) and he has a skid steer (bobcat is the company) so he helped us a lot like clearing trees for firewood, leveling our yard, making rock retaining walls, lending us his log splitter, helping us stack square bales, and a lot more! We are very thankful to have his help around when we need it. He has been a very helpful neighbor to have near.
Yesterday I made a wooden knife out in the semi (we use the semi as our shop/storage place) and it has a hand guard so I might be able to get some pictures of it some time other than this. It is about 10 inches long and I drew on our symbol with the crossed swords. The wind seems to be picking up and the rain is getting harder. I would like if it would clear up and get nicer out.
Peter
It is another dreary day today. I woke up and looked outside and it was foggy, misting, muddy, and windy. Sometimes when it has been warm and is windy the puddles of water that are on the roof splash off and gets the front area all wet. Our roof is a ~30' x 40' tarp, that is why the water blows off when the wind makes the tarp rise. We have square bales of hay for insulation in the roof so we just covered them with the tarp. Last winter we had fiberglass insulation inside in the floor joists and the roof leaked (because there wasn't enough hot weather for the tar to seal the rolled roofing properly) and the insulation got wet and we had to take it outside and then it got all messy so we couldn't use it. In case your wondering we (Dad, Jonathan, Andrew, David, Uncle Mark and I) built our house by ourselves except for the cement. We had a contractor do that part. Later on we met Steve (mountain fire keeper) and he has a skid steer (bobcat is the company) so he helped us a lot like clearing trees for firewood, leveling our yard, making rock retaining walls, lending us his log splitter, helping us stack square bales, and a lot more! We are very thankful to have his help around when we need it. He has been a very helpful neighbor to have near.
Yesterday I made a wooden knife out in the semi (we use the semi as our shop/storage place) and it has a hand guard so I might be able to get some pictures of it some time other than this. It is about 10 inches long and I drew on our symbol with the crossed swords. The wind seems to be picking up and the rain is getting harder. I would like if it would clear up and get nicer out.
Peter
Thursday
Hello,
It is another dreary day today. I woke up and looked outside and it was foggy, misting, muddy, and windy. Sometimes when it has been warm and is windy the puddles of water that are on the roof splash off and gets the front area all wet. Our roof is a ~30' x 40' tarp, that is why the water blows off when the wind makes the tarp rise. We have square bales of hay for insulation in the roof so we just covered them with the tarp. Last winter we had fiberglass insulation inside in the floor joists and the roof leaked (because there wasn't enough hot weather for the tar to seal the rolled roofing properly) and the insulation got wet and we had to take it outside and then it got all messy so we couldn't use it. In case your wondering we (Dad, Jonathan, Andrew, David, Uncle Mark and I) built our house by ourselves except for the cement. We had a contractor do that part. Later on we met Steve (mountain fire keeper) and he has a skid steer (bobcat is the company) so he helped us a lot like clearing trees for firewood, leveling our yard, making rock retaining walls, lending us his log splitter, helping us stack square bales, and a lot more! We are very thankful to have his help around when we need it. He has been a very helpful neighbor to have near.
Yesterday I made a wooden knife out in the semi (we use the semi as our shop/storage place) and it has a hand guard so I might be able to get some pictures of it some time other than this. It is about 10 inches long and I drew on our symbol with the crossed swords. The wind seems to be picking up and the rain is getting harder. I would like if it would clear up and get nicer out.
Peter
It is another dreary day today. I woke up and looked outside and it was foggy, misting, muddy, and windy. Sometimes when it has been warm and is windy the puddles of water that are on the roof splash off and gets the front area all wet. Our roof is a ~30' x 40' tarp, that is why the water blows off when the wind makes the tarp rise. We have square bales of hay for insulation in the roof so we just covered them with the tarp. Last winter we had fiberglass insulation inside in the floor joists and the roof leaked (because there wasn't enough hot weather for the tar to seal the rolled roofing properly) and the insulation got wet and we had to take it outside and then it got all messy so we couldn't use it. In case your wondering we (Dad, Jonathan, Andrew, David, Uncle Mark and I) built our house by ourselves except for the cement. We had a contractor do that part. Later on we met Steve (mountain fire keeper) and he has a skid steer (bobcat is the company) so he helped us a lot like clearing trees for firewood, leveling our yard, making rock retaining walls, lending us his log splitter, helping us stack square bales, and a lot more! We are very thankful to have his help around when we need it. He has been a very helpful neighbor to have near.
Yesterday I made a wooden knife out in the semi (we use the semi as our shop/storage place) and it has a hand guard so I might be able to get some pictures of it some time other than this. It is about 10 inches long and I drew on our symbol with the crossed swords. The wind seems to be picking up and the rain is getting harder. I would like if it would clear up and get nicer out.
Peter
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
The pictures from last post
Here is the pictures that I couldn't get to work last night:
This is the first stamp that I made out of an eraser. One of the crossed swords broke off but it doesn't show until you stamp it. I added some pen to outline what was missing in the picture below. Here is what it looks like when you stamp it:
This is the second stamp I made. Here's what it looks like when it is stamped:
This is my third stamp, and this is what it looks like when it is stamped:
This one doesn't look the best but it works!
Today we went to Paulette's to work on her van. It was pretty muddy underneath the van, so we layed in a sled and worked that way. Most of the time was spent looking at the repair manual and trying to figure out what was wrong. We finally gave up after a lot of trying and put every thing back the same as when we started and are going to have Paulette bring it into town and have a "professional" look at it. Jonathan was at Metigoshe vacuuming so it was just me and Dad working at Paulette's.
Today I made David and I holders for our swords out of cans. I took a can and cut out the bottom and the top, crushed it into an oval shape and used duct tape (the tape that works for everything) to hold on a rope for a loop to put your belt through. Now David has it on his belt all the time and says if any robbers come he will take care of them with his sword!
It is another nice day today. The snow is almost gone :-) But the mud has gotten worse :-( Mom is not feeling real good and Andrew is kind of sick feeling too. I have gotten over it (the cold/flu pretty much. I am glad that you can't get pass germs through the computer and through the phone! If you could I probably wouldn't blog or call anybody, and nobody would read my blog! It is nice having the sun coming in the windows like this while I am at the computer. It is a lot nicer than last winter when we didn't have any windows at all except for the door. That was not so nice. I hope that the nice weather continues and the mud dries up! I'm looking forward to spring! Also, I saw my first geese this morning when I was feeding the dogs!!!
Peter
Monday, March 27, 2006
My rubber stamps
Hello,
It was another nice day today and it snowed a little in the morning but then it cleared up into a really nice day in the afternoon. In the morning I was thinking that it would be nice to have a stamp out of rubber for our army when we use our swords and use our symbol for the design, so I started out by trying to cut some rubber off an old tire to use but I was starting from the inside of the ring out. It didn't cut very well with a jack knife because there is a metal ring around that area. I tried using a electric recipricating saw with the hack saw bit in it but I couldn't get it to cut! After several trips to the semi for other tools, I just stabbed the tire with my jack knife and cut out a square of rubber about an inch and a half square. After drawing the design that I wanted onto the piece of rubber I found out that I couldn't carve on that type of rubber very well. We studyed on the computer and found that a website said to use an eraser insted of using rubber. I found an eraser that was big enough and worked at it until I had carved out a stamp. I will have to post again later with the pictures because the computer is not letting me put any pictures onto my blog (sorry). It might have to be tomarrow some time. I made two other stamps after I had more practice and I will put pictures of them onto the blog when the computer lets me later.
Also today I got Jonathan to make a sword out of wood and so we have been playing sword fights. We mostly do it slow motion because we don't want anybody to get hurt. I made a shield out of wood but it is pretty rough looking and it seems like it is about to break all the time when I use it. I also have some pictures of it but since the computer won't let me put them on I guess you will have to wait untill tomarrow for those.
I'll write later.
Peter
It was another nice day today and it snowed a little in the morning but then it cleared up into a really nice day in the afternoon. In the morning I was thinking that it would be nice to have a stamp out of rubber for our army when we use our swords and use our symbol for the design, so I started out by trying to cut some rubber off an old tire to use but I was starting from the inside of the ring out. It didn't cut very well with a jack knife because there is a metal ring around that area. I tried using a electric recipricating saw with the hack saw bit in it but I couldn't get it to cut! After several trips to the semi for other tools, I just stabbed the tire with my jack knife and cut out a square of rubber about an inch and a half square. After drawing the design that I wanted onto the piece of rubber I found out that I couldn't carve on that type of rubber very well. We studyed on the computer and found that a website said to use an eraser insted of using rubber. I found an eraser that was big enough and worked at it until I had carved out a stamp. I will have to post again later with the pictures because the computer is not letting me put any pictures onto my blog (sorry). It might have to be tomarrow some time. I made two other stamps after I had more practice and I will put pictures of them onto the blog when the computer lets me later.
Also today I got Jonathan to make a sword out of wood and so we have been playing sword fights. We mostly do it slow motion because we don't want anybody to get hurt. I made a shield out of wood but it is pretty rough looking and it seems like it is about to break all the time when I use it. I also have some pictures of it but since the computer won't let me put them on I guess you will have to wait untill tomarrow for those.
I'll write later.
Peter
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Our adventure today
Hello,
I think the blogging has worn off. It's not new to me any more. I just haven't been feeling like doing any posting on my blog. Yesterday Dad and Jonathan came home from being in Jamestown ND at a big conference there. It is nice to have Dad home again. I don't know what we would have done this morning with out him when Samson got pricked full of porcupine quills.
I was outside and called for the dogs and they came running from the back of the house near the semi, I praised them a lot and then noticed that Samson's nose and mouth were full of pocupine quills. I got his collar and brought him to the door (that always blows open when it is windy and it was windy today so I didn't have to open that door because it was open already) and then opened the door and let him into the house and called for Dad. He was on the phone talking to one of the Grandparents and so he hung up and came to see what he could do. Mom got her nice sewing scissors (pretty much the only scissors we own that are sharp) and Dad cut off the ends of the quills. I don't know if that is what we should have done or not, but we did it! By then Samson was licking and waving his head trying (hard) to get the quills out by himself but of couse he couldn't so we had to. We got a pair of pliers and, holding Samson's head, began pulling the quills out, one by one until all there was was about 10 or so quills in his mouth, and only one stuck in his nose. We finally after trying a bunch of different ways to get him to stay still, had to tackle him down onto his side and hold him there while we pulled them out. He didn't like it very much! Now he seems to be fine. He is playing just as rough with Selah as before he got pricked and she is just as tired of him as before.
I made me and my two other brothers swords. My sword is the biggest but most ugly looking. I made it out of an old board that I tore off a rotten board. It is not as bad as it sounds:
Those are Andrew's and David's swords in the picture. Here's some better pictures:
This is Andrew's sword.
I think the blogging has worn off. It's not new to me any more. I just haven't been feeling like doing any posting on my blog. Yesterday Dad and Jonathan came home from being in Jamestown ND at a big conference there. It is nice to have Dad home again. I don't know what we would have done this morning with out him when Samson got pricked full of porcupine quills.
I was outside and called for the dogs and they came running from the back of the house near the semi, I praised them a lot and then noticed that Samson's nose and mouth were full of pocupine quills. I got his collar and brought him to the door (that always blows open when it is windy and it was windy today so I didn't have to open that door because it was open already) and then opened the door and let him into the house and called for Dad. He was on the phone talking to one of the Grandparents and so he hung up and came to see what he could do. Mom got her nice sewing scissors (pretty much the only scissors we own that are sharp) and Dad cut off the ends of the quills. I don't know if that is what we should have done or not, but we did it! By then Samson was licking and waving his head trying (hard) to get the quills out by himself but of couse he couldn't so we had to. We got a pair of pliers and, holding Samson's head, began pulling the quills out, one by one until all there was was about 10 or so quills in his mouth, and only one stuck in his nose. We finally after trying a bunch of different ways to get him to stay still, had to tackle him down onto his side and hold him there while we pulled them out. He didn't like it very much! Now he seems to be fine. He is playing just as rough with Selah as before he got pricked and she is just as tired of him as before.
I made me and my two other brothers swords. My sword is the biggest but most ugly looking. I made it out of an old board that I tore off a rotten board. It is not as bad as it sounds:
We also kind of made up a symbol that we put on our swords. It looks like this:
Here is a thing that I carved out of wood this afternoon:
Those are Andrew's and David's swords in the picture. Here's some better pictures:
This is Andrew's sword.
This one is David's one. He wanted his smooth so he sanded his more than the one I made for Andrew.
The last three days have been pretty windy but the wind is from the south and it is warm. May be I will still get back into blogging.
Peter
P.S. Here is a better picture of what I carved:
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I forgot to say (I remembered just as I was leaving the computer) Jonathan turned 15 today!
Just had to tell you.
Peter
Just had to tell you.
Peter
Friday, March 17, 2006
Quite a lot happened!
Hello,
I haven't written for quite a while because I wasn't feeling good. I started out with the flu (throwing up, tired...) and then it turned into a cold (not fun at all) and I am still recovering from sickness and all the fun we had at the homeschool convention. The Kenneys came a few days before it started and we played around and did some snowmobiling with them. We took them to the big steep hill and played some king of the mountain and then after we got cold and tired went back to the house (then we went to Metigoshe Ministries for supper and to visit with them.
The next day (the 7th of March) the Kenneys left for Minot in the afternoon. Dad, Andrew and I left the left the day after and we went to the hotel (Holiday Inn) where the convention was to be held and where the Kenneys were staying. Andrew and I helped with some stuffing of bags for the convention the next day (we did about 500-550 bags!). Mom and my two other brothers came the next day (the 9th) and so we helped them unload. We take a lot when we go, at least it fills a whole vehicle! The keynote speaker spoke that night at about 8:00 and so we didn't get to bed untill late.
The next two days were fun looking at other vendors booths and we helped with passing out the baskets for the offering. We played music at the Friday music time and that went good. At least I didn't make any big mistakes with the guitar :-) ! Saturday was just plain because I had seen all the booths and I was really tired from the day before but I stayed up long enough to enjoy the day as much as I could. There was a fellowship time in the evening and I would have rather gone to bed than to that but I survived!
The next morning I got up with a sore throat and then it turned into the flu. We had gone with the Kenneys to the restaurant in the hotel and I had some bacon and eggs and yogurt, and when we got back to our house and that is when I started throwing up and getting really tired. So now I have been just resting and taking it easy waiting for the sickness to pass. I forgot to say that the old archtop guitar that I had been playing, broke. We can fix it but on one of the tuning peg gears the tooth is wore down so it couldn't grip well. We kind of traded and got a new guitar from our friend who had the guitar at the homeschool convention and so I am using that right now. It is nice having a guitar that you can tune! Write more later.
Peter
I haven't written for quite a while because I wasn't feeling good. I started out with the flu (throwing up, tired...) and then it turned into a cold (not fun at all) and I am still recovering from sickness and all the fun we had at the homeschool convention. The Kenneys came a few days before it started and we played around and did some snowmobiling with them. We took them to the big steep hill and played some king of the mountain and then after we got cold and tired went back to the house (then we went to Metigoshe Ministries for supper and to visit with them.
The next day (the 7th of March) the Kenneys left for Minot in the afternoon. Dad, Andrew and I left the left the day after and we went to the hotel (Holiday Inn) where the convention was to be held and where the Kenneys were staying. Andrew and I helped with some stuffing of bags for the convention the next day (we did about 500-550 bags!). Mom and my two other brothers came the next day (the 9th) and so we helped them unload. We take a lot when we go, at least it fills a whole vehicle! The keynote speaker spoke that night at about 8:00 and so we didn't get to bed untill late.
The next two days were fun looking at other vendors booths and we helped with passing out the baskets for the offering. We played music at the Friday music time and that went good. At least I didn't make any big mistakes with the guitar :-) ! Saturday was just plain because I had seen all the booths and I was really tired from the day before but I stayed up long enough to enjoy the day as much as I could. There was a fellowship time in the evening and I would have rather gone to bed than to that but I survived!
The next morning I got up with a sore throat and then it turned into the flu. We had gone with the Kenneys to the restaurant in the hotel and I had some bacon and eggs and yogurt, and when we got back to our house and that is when I started throwing up and getting really tired. So now I have been just resting and taking it easy waiting for the sickness to pass. I forgot to say that the old archtop guitar that I had been playing, broke. We can fix it but on one of the tuning peg gears the tooth is wore down so it couldn't grip well. We kind of traded and got a new guitar from our friend who had the guitar at the homeschool convention and so I am using that right now. It is nice having a guitar that you can tune! Write more later.
Peter
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Sunday
The Kenneys didn't come today. The weather put them off for another day. It was really snowy and on the melting point, not a good combination.
This afternoon we had to go to Paulette's to pull out her friend who had to pick up her cat. It took quite a bit to pull a car up a icy hill. After we tried going faster and that did it (thankfully). We went slow on the way back to keep track of the lady that had gotten stuck, but we got out to the highway okay. I'm still looking forward to seeing the Kenneys and going to the homeschool convention. Samson hasn't been sniffing Selah any more. I don't know if it is because he has already mated or if it is just because Selah is not in heat. I'll might write but I might be too busy to write before the homeschool convention. We'll see!
Peter
Here's some pictures of my battle ship game that you print out and draw the ships on.
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Saturday
Hello,
I woke up this morning to a bright bedroom. It was sunny out and we hadn't shut the shade (we don't usually do it any way). It is kind of fun sleeping in my bunk. I have the top bunk and Jonathan has the bottom bunk. We went to the old house and fixed the pull cord. We had to take off the recoil and unwind it. There was a short piece of cord that we had to get out but that wasn't a problem. Dad lit a fire in the woodstove and we warmed up our hands near it. It seemed like it warmed up faster in the cabin, but may be it was because it wasn't as cold outside as other days. After the snowmobile got going (which didn't take much because we had covered it up really good) we had some rides and brought our stuff back with it.
It was warm today with a south east wind. The weather must have blown from Florida where our Grand parents are visiting. They say it is pretty warm down there in Florida! I made a battle ship game for on paper on the computer and then printed it out. I haven't tried it yet but I think it would work. It seems like the week flew by and is gone!!! The Kenneys are supposed to come tomorrow if the weather is good, and the homeschooll convention is in five days. I hope the Kenneys will make it!
Peter
I woke up this morning to a bright bedroom. It was sunny out and we hadn't shut the shade (we don't usually do it any way). It is kind of fun sleeping in my bunk. I have the top bunk and Jonathan has the bottom bunk. We went to the old house and fixed the pull cord. We had to take off the recoil and unwind it. There was a short piece of cord that we had to get out but that wasn't a problem. Dad lit a fire in the woodstove and we warmed up our hands near it. It seemed like it warmed up faster in the cabin, but may be it was because it wasn't as cold outside as other days. After the snowmobile got going (which didn't take much because we had covered it up really good) we had some rides and brought our stuff back with it.
It was warm today with a south east wind. The weather must have blown from Florida where our Grand parents are visiting. They say it is pretty warm down there in Florida! I made a battle ship game for on paper on the computer and then printed it out. I haven't tried it yet but I think it would work. It seems like the week flew by and is gone!!! The Kenneys are supposed to come tomorrow if the weather is good, and the homeschooll convention is in five days. I hope the Kenneys will make it!
Peter
Friday, March 03, 2006
Thursday
Today it snowed a bunch and so we had to shovel and snowblow. Mom went to town with Paulette, and Paulette didn't want to come up the driveway to get her so Mom and Jonathan (Jonathan had to vacuum) went down our ~1/4 mile driveway to her. David (6) really wanted to use the snowblower and so Dad said he could if somebody was watching him. I was the one to watch him. He didn't get much done but he enjoyed it! Then I took a turn snowblowing to the semi trailer after him.
When Mom came home she was going to walk back up to the house but she had some groceries and Paulette didn't want to drive her car up our hill, so Dad took the van down there with us pulled behind in the big blue sled. You had to shift back and forth to keep upright when the sled was going fast but it was fun. When Paulette left going back to her place she was going up the last hill near highway 43 and slid into the ditch. The grader was right behind her and tried to help dig her out with a spade until we came. Five of us got out and pushed and she backed out into the road again. The grader had turned around to try to help her and then in order to get back on track he had to turn around. It's amazing how long graders are but are still able to turn around on a small dirt road!
After all that I had to go to the old house to get the pull cord that broke on the snowmobile and give it to dad to find another one or look at the prices in town. When I came back I helped Jonathan with grain grinding. We have a grain mill that the Hendersons gave us but the only thing that isn't the best is that it shoots some grain dust around. We fixed that problem by putting a rubbermade container behind were the dust flies. We got two bags of grain done. Each bag was a one gallon bag. Quite a lot happens in one day! More happens in some than others.
Peter
When Mom came home she was going to walk back up to the house but she had some groceries and Paulette didn't want to drive her car up our hill, so Dad took the van down there with us pulled behind in the big blue sled. You had to shift back and forth to keep upright when the sled was going fast but it was fun. When Paulette left going back to her place she was going up the last hill near highway 43 and slid into the ditch. The grader was right behind her and tried to help dig her out with a spade until we came. Five of us got out and pushed and she backed out into the road again. The grader had turned around to try to help her and then in order to get back on track he had to turn around. It's amazing how long graders are but are still able to turn around on a small dirt road!
After all that I had to go to the old house to get the pull cord that broke on the snowmobile and give it to dad to find another one or look at the prices in town. When I came back I helped Jonathan with grain grinding. We have a grain mill that the Hendersons gave us but the only thing that isn't the best is that it shoots some grain dust around. We fixed that problem by putting a rubbermade container behind were the dust flies. We got two bags of grain done. Each bag was a one gallon bag. Quite a lot happens in one day! More happens in some than others.
Peter
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