Okay, the drama never ends over here. Chuck brought out the shake shingles from the job he’s doing and put them all in the burn pile. They are wood and very old and very dry. I figured, I should start the fire since tomorrow it’s going to rain. So, I take out what garbage I have and start the fire. I go inside to use the bathroom and I check on it and it’s fine. I do something else and go back to check on it and it’s crawling all over the yard!!

YIKES!!!

So, I get the hose and I try to contain the fire, but it’s windy out and the fire keep jumping away until I could no longer reach it with the hose and the flames were taller than me and they were heading for my neighbors house! YIKES!!!

So, I give up and run inside to call our fire department. I keep trying to get the fire out but it’s huge and heading south and I couldn’t reach it with my 200 foot hose! OH MY!! I’m scared to death that I will burn our neighbors house down! GOOD LORD!!!

He shows up right quick, said he only lives about 2 miles from the fire department. Yes, I ran in to grab my camera so I could blog about it. CJ was upset that I didn’t get a picture of him holding the hose. The fireman gave it to him while he got more hose out of the truck. CJ was first on the scene but I was too freaked out to go get it until the fire was more contained.

I had to take a shower as I stunk and was so dirty! I’m glad it’s over and everything is okay again!

SHEW!!

The Damage!

Yesterday afternoon around 3pm the bus garage in Girard PA caught fire. There was no one in the building when it started and there were many explosions. I heard all over Facebook about the explosions and they seemed to be every 5 minutes. The fire people claim that was the tires on the buses exploding. They lost 12 buses and thank God it’s summertime and they don’t need them right now.

Girard School District does NOT own the buses but Student Transportation of America does and they are responsible for replacing the buses. Let’s pray they have good insurance!

Here are some pictures that Pete Gray took. Hope he doesn’t mind I snagged them off Facebook!

The boys have been working with Chuck so my days are very quiet and it’s so nice! I can’t believe I slept till 10:18am today! I never sleep past 8am and for some reason today I did.

Joe had his friends over all weekend so by last night he was VERY tired! They left here around 3pm on Sunday and Joe just laid around the rest of the time. CJ had Kyle over while I was working projection at church last night. I took him home around 9:30. He came over because at his house they only have 1 computer and his sister was on it so CJ told him he could come over and use mine since I was not home, LOL!!

I told CJ and Kyle that they need to get their drivers licenses so they could transport their own butts back and forth! Kyle lives about 3 miles away. So, my goal is to get them to take their tests over the summer. In Ohio, you have to wait 6 months after getting your permit to take your driving test and you have to take drivers ed. I will go over the book with CJ. He’s VERY nervous about test taking and I think that is why he doesn’t want to drive because he said he wanted to take the van and pick him up but realized I had it, so I know he wants to drive but I think it’s the test taking that is bothering him.

Well, I still don’t know if the trees we transplanted will make it. Some of them look pretty sad with their leaves turning brown. We won’t do anything until next spring and if they don’t leaf out we will remove them and try again. It looks nice with trees in our yard I just wish we would clean up the place by removing the dirt that is laying around. Chuck is going to use the skidder and push the excess dirt around. Maybe next weekend, this weekend we were quite lazy, LOL!

This is just SO CUTE!!!!

Oh my!! This has been a VERY busy weekend for us! The boys last day of school was on Thursday and as soon as we picked them up we got busy and have been busy since! No lazy days of summer for them so far, LOL!!

We are FINALLY fixing things up around here! Chuck decided to rent a backhoe for one day and we are getting stuff done! I have wanted this stuff done for years! Chuck got a really good roofing job so we used a little bit to finally get stuff done!

First, we always have a TON of water just sitting under the trailer. We have no idea why, must be a low spot or something. We always have tons of bugs, frogs and the like because of all the water. Well, Chuck has decided to dig a huge trench from the one spot where the water always sits right out to the ditch. He dug it VERY deep and dug an even deeper hole right under the walk way. He filled this trench with stone and a drain tile and more stone and the entire 5 foot deep hole with stone for the water to sit in and then when it fills up out the drain tile.

We also tore up the sewer line. What must have happened was that we didn’t realize that our sewer tank was completely full and it backed up into our sewer line and then froze there busting every single pipe we had! We had to replace the entire line! Our sewage has been going under the trailer for almost 2 years now! I’m SO GLAD we are FINALLY getting this fixed!! Can you just image what it smells like here in the summer! I haven’t had people over because it smells SO BAD!!!!

Since we had the backhoe, I asked Chuck if we could transplant some trees from out back to our front yard. We have lived here for 10 years and have not planted any trees, bushes or flowers!! I am tired of not being able to enjoy my yard because it’s just to darn hot to go outside. I want to have a swing out by a tree and be able to have shade in my yard.

So, we transplanted some trees. I am going to try my hardest to keep them alive and I hope they all live!!!

The first one was a small oak tree.

Then we got a nice sized white birch for the front yard. We want to have trees come all the way around the house.

Here is Joe being a HeMan and dragging the tree.

Up goes the tree.

Here are 2 of the new trees.

Here is Joe being himself.

CJ being silly.

Here is another oak tree only bigger. There are 2 oak trees out back and 3 white birch along the front and side of the house.

Chuck let Joe drive the backhoe around the yard a while.

Here is fat Sandy. She has loved being outside for the past three days. She sleeps like a rock all night long after a long day outside.

Here is my fat cat enjoying being outside any chance he can get.

This is what my front yard now looks like, well I hope to clean it up and plant some grass.