Progress

12.5′ x 25′ overhang off the end of the wellhouse for the grill and picnic table, etc.

In progress…

Sha-wing!

Elvis is alive! (At the hardware store.)

We wandered through the Christmas area at Lowe’s last night and guess what we saw?  Elvis!  Okay, so he was a Christmas decoration and only a few inches tall but still…

Our new lakeside resort, looking out the greenhouse door towards the (almost completed) wellhouse.

Ye Olde Family

This would have been in Silver Dollar City (back before Branson was Branson) — a tin type in costume.  I love our expressions!!  Such a happy, happy family photo.  *snicker*  Mom and I are in the back row.  Front row is John, Dad, and David.  I think I was 12 here so David & John would be 5 & 3 maybe?

Ye Olde Pics

I broke the links when I moved the blog and pic storage a couple of years ago.  Bad, lazy me never went through to fix them but I’m working on it now.  My two genealogy pic posts are so completely screwed up, I’m just going to delete them and repost the pics here.

The McCuistion kids:  Patrick, Mark, David, James, George (my dad), and Marcia.

And their parents (my grandparents):  George and Clara (Doty) McCuistion.

Now a few from my mom’s side, the Chrismans (Grandpa) and McMichaels (Grandma).  Now that I think about it, I believe all of the pics I have right now are from the McMichael side.

Maria Worth, way up the tree.

McMichaels — I see my grandma in there, directly above the head of the front man in the chair.

More McMichaels.

McMichaels and Coffins.

And the Unknown Tall Dude and his family.  Someone remind me to find out who he is…

Bullseye!

Haircut time again!

Wedding pics

David & Miranda have posted several incredible wedding pics to their blog and I just have to share!

Go here and drool over the gorgeous people:  http://mccuistion.us/wedding/

And, in case you missed it, honeymoon video here (also posted publicly to their blog so I feel free to share here):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuJln7izV2Q

My Manic Blogging Phase

I can go for months without blogging a thing and then WHAMMO!  I’ll go through a little spurt of overbloggage.

There’s been quite a bit of progress on the property but most of it doesn’t make for good pics.  Including today’s wellhouse work.  Steve and Cody got a lot done this week and, after finding a tiny bit more insulation next week, it should be completed except for the garage door and guttering.  I think.  (Note a bit more progress on the wellhouse garden in the left side of the pic.)

Nellie and Kong supervising from inside the wellhouse.

Steve removed the redneck shadecloth from the greenhouse several days ago so I’ve been cleaning and organizing it a bit, along with getting some new starts… started.

My helper, The Crazed Bouncer.  The empty space behind her is cleared out for the second shelf Steve’s making.

The bigger of the two tomatoes that lived in the greenhouse throughout the summer heat — and lived to tell about it.  It has roughly a million bazillion blossoms on it at the moment.

And, finally:  Remember my beautiful bread?  I can make ugly bread, too.  Tastes good anyway!

Watermelon Harvest

Something has decided it likes our much-neglected melon patch so Steve & the kids just picked what was left.

Guess what we’re having for snacktime today?

Afternoon with friends

We spent the afternoon at Jess & Arlene’s, butchering one of their sheep.  The kids helped, starting with drawing water from the well.  I’ll spare you the rest of the details since I know several “Ews!” would be forthcoming.    It was a good day, though, spent with a couple of incredibly cool people.