Blessings journal: this is our second anniversary
Two years ago today, we parked the U-Haul, kissed Irene, and started cleaning and clearing and deconstructing. A year ago we woke up, kissed Irene, and parked the tractor in its new home. Yesterday, Michael cut a hole in our perfectly good new roof.
We are working against the clock: rain scheduled to begin in eight hours
Getting the stovepipe perfectly vertical required some basic engineering (the framing on the insulation shield is movable and will be reinforced) and upper body strength (lifting a six foot section of ainsulated stove pipe to Michael who was sitting in the rafters was no mean feat).
Adjusting rafter ties before installing stove pipe.
But that was yesterday. Today we woke up, kissed Irene and headed off to the Minnesota State Fair. We arrived early to avoid traffic and parking woes.
Not many people at 7:30 am!
We started with the animals, visiting fish chickens ducks turkeys geese sheep goats cows and pigs.
1200 pounds of pig.
We ate cheese curds malts cream puffs and:
Our favorite vendor.
We perused the art gallery Eco building frontier village international bazaar and agriculture building.
Flowers. I love flowers.
By 2 pm our dogs were barking.
Feet in place.
The crowds were gathering.
Relatively empty for the Fair, but crowded for us country folk
So we headed home. Would our house be dry?
No leaks! Yay!
Despite aches and pain and exhaustion and overcoming fear, it was a perfect end to a really good day, week, month, and year.