Tank Makeover

Dan and I had a long discussion about the tank here at The Ranch.  We decided to go ahead and spend the money to have it expanded and deepened.  It is dry anyway.  

So here are some work-in-progress pictures.  We have had a scraper, trackhoe and dozer out here working for over a week.  And wouldn’t you know we are not done yet and we got 1.5 inches of rain last night  and now the tank has water in it…..  Good news it still holds water… bad news…we have to pump it out so we can finish lining the bottom with clay….  As soon as The Olds family starts any kind of a building project outdoors… we get rain…..

We think we will have close to .33 acre tank when done

Ranch cabinets

  

 

The ranch kitchen finally looks like a kitchen.

The cabinet maker completed his work and Dan is still doing his trimming and

Tracy is still staining their handiwork. 

It will be awhile before Dan is done with all the trim work because of his busy work schedule, but we are in no hurry now because the kitchen still functions whether we have baseboards or not.  Good thing we got our kitchen done because we have had a burn burn all spring and summer and no sign of it lifting.  This means no grill or fires outside.  We have had some major wildfires in the county and one was caused by a person grilling.

This is my new dual fuel range - it has two ovens...

This is my poker corner

Living room bookshelves... the left side upper has been stained.



Drought update

Our tank is officially dry.

The turtles have either moved on or have fallen prey to coyotes and herons.  We did not know we had fish, but their remains are at the bottom of the tank.  They too have provided a feast for the herons, etc.  We did find a snake skeleton too, I just hope it was the mean one that chased Dan on the tractor and me in the truck…

This is a turtle moving out of the tank......

Bella's first flight

Bella fly to WV to meet the family in August. 

 Here is little Bella with Tasha at IAH as we are checking in.

   Bella meeting her Great-Great Granny Brake.

Bella meeting her Great-Great-Great Aunt Rose.

This is a five generation picture of Spadafore's!

A Grandmother is Born!

I know… that is a weird way to announce that I am a Grandmother. 

On July 9, 2011 at 11:22pm , Tasha gave birth to our precious little Bella Rayne Proske.

Dan , Kendyl and I were on a cruise and had just made port in Athens, Greece when this happened.

As soon as we got back home to Texas… we showered and changed and made a beeline to Tasha’s house to see our sweet baby!! 

Bella is a wonderful baby and we are just so Blessed!   

2011 July Vacation

Dan and Tracy went on a European cruise this month.  We left July 2^nd with Kendyl and Pauline and Andrea and traveled to Rome, Italy.  We saw the sights in Rome and then hopped a train to Venice, Italy where we picked up our cruise ship and were joined with some more folks we know from Texas.   Princess Cruise lines did a great job as usual and we cruised Croatia, Greece, Turkey and Italy.  We had a wonderful time and highly recommend this trip.  We just wished Tasha and Curt could have joined us, but there we busy adding onto their family while we were gone….