June 18th to 20th - 100 Mile

June 18th – Sat
We had a slack day today as it rained all day and we accomplished nothing. If it wasn’t for the chores and walking to our rig, we wouldn’t have got even a breath of fresh – wet - air. I was playing a game on the computer (rare for me) and Terry came over and asked if we had had lunch! I asked what time it was and was very surprised when he said 1:30. Dad was napping in front of the TV so I waited a bit until he woke up and then put together a snack for lunch as I had a roast beef in the crock pot for dinner and didn’t want to totally spoil our appetites. Weird day!!

June 19th – Sun
We got going early this morning so we could place the final footing for the shed posts and then mix & pour the concrete. It all went fine. Then I decided it would be good to put the sheep on the pasture around the hay barn since we won’t be working there for a few days and won’t have to worry about opening a gate all the time. We put up temporary fence panels to close off the barn and the sheep were happy. Shortly after, I saw lambs around the post holes and sure enough, when we looked later, there were 3 little hoof prints in the wet concrete in one of the footings. We finished the morning by picking up a couple of dead trees that Terry had fallen when we were completing the new fence.
After lunch, we took the tractor, 2 fence posts and 2 bluebird houses to neighbor Reg’s place where we put in the posts to thank him for working on the tractor. When he saw how easy the posts went in, he had us put in 4 small posts so he can build a fence to keep deer out of his garden. Hopefully this is the end of putting in posts for a while so we took the pounder off the tractor and then pretty much took the rest of the day off. Dad took apart a toy buckwagon that he built a few years ago and got a new coat of paint on most of it.
We had our usual light sprinkle of rain in the evening.

June 20th – Mon
Terry was puttering around on the outhouse construction this morning so I took the opportunity to clean the fridge. Something sticky had been spilled and it was past time to get it cleaned up. The sun was nice enough that Dad was sitting in the sun and petting Sage and a cat (Uncle).
Terry & I got the roof built for the outhouse. It is a bit of a challenge building it in pieces and making sure it can all be nailed together when it is assembled on site.
After lunch, we displayed our optimism that the sunshine would last and loaded our golf clubs in the truck. But first we went to see Marg’s neighbor Ralph who is going to pick up the trusses, roofing and 6x6’s for the shed. We had rain checks for some bird seed that was on sale so we picked it up next and the salesman pointed out the rain clouds moving in. Sure enough, it started to rain. Luckily, we were sitting in the golf course parking lot waiting to see if it was going to rain. We picked up some DEF at the Chev dealer since we couldn’t get enough the last time we filled it up, went to the grocery store and then headed home. Dad hauled another load of wood this morning and then put a second coat of paint on the wagon while we were gone.