26 Apr 20 - We had a Zoom birthday party for Miss Harper Mode!  Sure wish we could have all been there in person, but maybe next month we will be free to move about the world.

 She was afraid of the big pink cake but tore up the cup cake.

27 Apr 20 - On our walk this morning an Osprey caught its breakfast and posed for this picture!  Was a great cool 61 degree morning!

 25 Apr 20 - Today we worked some more on organizing the non-scanned pictures into these 2 boxes by date.

These are the 5 boxes that have been organized by date and have already been scanned onto the hard drive!  Getting close to finishing the organization process.

 24 Apr 20 - We have organized the piles that were on the the left side of the bed.  All the scanned pictures are in the left 4 boxes.  The other 2 boxes are organized by year but have not been scanned.  We still have a few piles on the right side of the bed to go thru.  Once they are all organized I will set up the scanner and get to work.

The room is messy again!  It will be put back together some day real soon!

23 Apr 20 - Today we started organizing the pictures that we have.  These boxes will contain all the photographs.  The ones in the boxes and the 2 small piles behind the boxes on the left have been scanned into the computer.  The rest of the piles have not been scanned.  Once they have all been scanned and put in the proper order and labeled by year they will be boxed and put in the closet.  They have been crammed into 3 plastic totes for many years.  Another project that we started in 2014 and have finally gotten back to!  More work tomorrow.

 23 Apr 20 - This week we reorganized the VA Files.  On the table is Kathy's file along with her Health record from the Army.  On the chair is the box that contained the VA File.  It filled the box.  We made sure all the documents were scanned into the computer and put it all in order.

 Yesterday we did my file.  Each of these boxes contained one of our files.  Both boxes were full of paper.

When completed these 2 file folders contain our VA File, mine on top and Kathy's on the bottom. There was many copies of several documents and more documents that were not longer necessary to keep in paper form!  Been needing to do this for many years!  Glad it is done.

 17 Apr 20 - I was going to take this pictures on the 15th but I was working in the files in the spare room.  Kathy and I have so much military paperwork that has needed cleaning out.  We have filled about 6 kitchen trash bags with shredded paper for going thru it.  Now all that is left is organizing and consolidating files.  Here is the tree on the east side of the pool.  Not 100% full yet.

 The west side tree is not 100% either.

And the lagging behind tree next to the shop in the back of the yard.

 14 Apr 20 - So I have made this breakfast for the past 2 mornings.  Fruit, cinnamon, chia seeds, and oatmeal.  Both yesterday and this morning we were wondering why the oatmeal was a little spicy.  Well today I figured why it was, and we laughed about it!

Sunday we cooked both Whole Groat Oats and a batch of brown rice in the instant pot.  The brown rice has some red pepper in it.  Since breakfast we more like a heat and eat instead of cooking rolled oats like I have done for several years.  I opened what I thought was the oats, well it wasn't, it was the rice.  So for the past 2 mornings we have eaten rice prepared like oatmeal.  Not bad though, but we have to cook another batch of rice for make dinner with tonight.  Can you tell the difference between the rice and oats?

 1 Apr 20 - The Backsplash is complete and caulked in!

The window sill is installed and caulked in.  Bathroom is complete!

1 Apr 20 - Working on Everly's rattle.  Still have to get it over to Sanford to get the engraving done and lots of sanding.  I also have to remove the lower end nub.  This nub will help keep it on the engraving machine so we don't screw it up like the last one when it fell off the holder.

 1 Apr 20 - Took down the 4 curtains in our bedroom and sewed the pairs together to make 2 curtains, half on each side of center.  This makes it much easier to close at night.

Sewing completed and replaced back on the rod.