Can you say hectic...

 Framing on the Utility room has been finished for about a week now. The metal siding and roof will get put on this weekend.

I've been so busy it's not funny. Getting up at 5am and going until 8pm. The plumber has been out and has done what he can do until we find an electrician. Our funds have been depleted and we are pretty much at a standstill at the moment. Very discouraging and depressing. We are now calling the utility room the bunk house. We will be bunking in there until the barn is finished. Time is running out and we have to get out of the rental house soon. Can you say camping out? We do have a working toilet so that is a good thing. 

 The framing is finished in the barn. All the water lines and sewer lines are finished. We still haven't found an electrician we can afford so we wait...

One messy place. We actually got it picked up and then we had to rent a trencher and dig trenches for the water/sewer and electrical lines so it's a mess once again. I can't wait for all of this to get back to normal. 

We are in the midst of a family medical crisis and that has me upset and crying a lot. Since I live so far from my family there isn't much I can do but pray. If it wasn't for us moving and having to get everything done I'd run up to Michigan but I can't right now and it's driving me nuts!

I fell coming out of the bunkhouse tonight and landed on my arm. We thought I might have broken my arm but I think it's just tender, sore and bruised, thank goodness.

It's been a roller coaster of emotions lately but I know in the end it will all be good! God is good!

Sorry I haven't been able to post more often. When we move I'll be losing my internet for awhile. It's called priorities come first and internet isn't a priority. I am counting the days!

Hope y'all are doing well and enjoying your week!

I am so tired but I did manage a short clip...

Of Michael playing the piano...It's one of the songs he has memorized and the only one he would agree to play for the video!! 

Love my Boy!!

Unbelievably Busy...

 It has been a whirl-wind week...The Utility/Bath room is coming along! The guys are doing an awesome job and I am loving it!!

 I play the gopher, go for this, bring me that, pick that up, hold this, etc and I don't mind one bit. Love being able to help. I am also learning quite a bit too. 

 They are almost done with their part...We hired them to do the framing and put the outside sheeting up and then I will finish up with metal sheeting outside and insulation and walls on the inside!

 Not much longer until we have to move and hopefully we'll have most of it done by the time we move in...

This afternoon after we finished Michael was wandering around and kept finding interesting things...Mom!! Mom!! Come look at this!! Mom take a photo!! He has a good eye!

 Locust!

 Rapid Wolf spider

 Water droplets on a Passion Plant Bloom!

 Passion Plant Bloom framed in...I am in a framing kind of mood, lol!

 Mom!! Mom!! Come look, bring the camera!! I found an itty bitty Praying Mantis. She was tiny too and I had to put the Macro lens on the camera. She was about the size of a thumb nail.

Michael found this Cocoon hanging under a rock too!! Good eye Michael! Oh so pretty!!

We had a good day and got a lot accomplished.

I feel a bit bad for Michael as today was his first day of Summer break and he spent it working with us down at the property! Not a good way to spend your summer break but he knows that is what is happening most of June and July!! Thank goodness we have the pool and can cool off and play for a little bit!! I love my son and he is a trooper and a great helper. I got him a giant contractors magnet and he's been going around finding and picking up Nails, Screws and Staples!! Our motto is "save our tires Michael!!"

 

Walls are up, yeah!!

 

First wall going up!! Woohoo!!

 

 

Love seeing this go up!! 

 

Won't be long...

Michael's last day of school is tomorrow and then he doesn't know it, but he will be helping too!!

 

Rolling along...

 

Our load of wood arrived yesterday....

 

 Framing started today...

We are having a utility/bathroom built so we can have a little more room in the barn.

In the barn we are just having the bedrooms and a small bathroom framed and then we are leaving the rest open...It's so nice to see things moving along...Not long and we will be living there, yeah!!

This evening in photos...

 

I've been ignoring my camera as I have so much to do...I've had the camera bag with me as I am hoping to get a photo of a fawn. I've been seeing them but just haven't been able to get a decent photo...so I just ignore the camera and I miss it. Tonight I had a few photo ops and couldn't resist...

 

 

Momma Bluebird watching over her kids...

 

I normally help the boys put posts in but tonight I didn't...I wish I would have. I went out and looked when they got done and all 5 posts they put in were crooked!! Honestly!!

The mosquitoes were awful and the boys forgot the off. I went back to the house and got the off after I took this photo. Silly boys! It was hot and it was muggy, not much fun!

 

There was a rainbow in the clouds but by the time I got to the camera it was almost gone due to the sun setting...

 

My little turtle in the pool...A good way to cool off after putting in fence posts!

 

We got a lot done today but have so much more to do...it's gonna be a rough summer!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posing for photos...red-eared slider

 

We found a little red-eared slider turtle in the driveway tonight. I took him down to the property and did a photo shoot with him, he was very photogenic...

 

 

Love his eyes...

 

Definitely a red-eared slider...

 

He's giving me the stink eye, guess he's had enough of me and my camera!

 

Beautiful markings...

 

When I finished with him I took him out back near the creek...