HOUSE AND YARD
 
2001
The right side of the front of our house		 2001
The left side of the front of our house
Front of our house Driveway of our house showing my camper
 

 

2004
The Barn
I know... I wasn't going to show you the barn until it was done, but I didn't want you to have to wait any longer.  I still have to add more details and do some painting.  I will be putting lights and curtains in the "hotel" windows.  I pieced two pictures together.  That is why the colors and angles are strange.

The "jail" is on the left.  The "hotel" is next to that (the gray door is the only working door, the rest are fake).  The "general store" is next and the "livery stable" is at the right end.  The bottom part of the livery is for the lawnmower and garden tools.  The top part of the livery is accessed from the large opening at the left end of the barn and is for storage.

Yes, it's big!  It's about 56' long and 14' tall and 12' wide.  If I didn't decorate the side to look like a western town then it would be an ugly giant blank wall.

The side of the barn

 

Here's the leftover scrap wood messing up the bottom part of our yard (it's cleaned up now):

Piles of wood

That's the "saloon" at the bottom of the hill.  A long time ago my husband and our friend used a bunch of old wood to build a patio.  That was what gave us the idea to create a western town.  The patio ended up being designated the saloon.  The piles of old wood are gone now.  They were left over from decorating the side of the barn.
 

 

Pictures of hail
1/3/05
The Hail Storm
We live in southern California.  We usually get a couple of inches of rain a year.  We don't get snow where we are and we don't normally get hail.  The night of January 3rd, 2005 our weather got weirder than it already has been.

We got a good 2-3" of hail and some BIG lightning and thunder.  I'm typing this at 7:00AM the next morning and there is still a lot of hail all over the place.
 

 
The wash behind our house with lots of water in it
January 2005
The Rain
 

(I'm writing this 1/10/05)
More rain has fallen than in all the years they've kept track beginning in  1887.

The month, so far, has brought us BIG hail, earthquakes, and now rain.

This winter we've already had more freezing mornings than I ever remember since moving here in 1985!

Is Jesus coming soon?

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