Hey Acre-Heads!

I apologize for going so long between posts, but I did not figure you cared too much to see pictures of our piles of crap as we moved everything out of the rental house and into M. T. Acres.  Plus, those photos would have included items that would have convinced about half of you that we are crazy as hell and convinced the other half that we are the sanest people on the planet.  Regardless, we finally have all of our stuff moved over to M. T. Acres!

We definitely have stuff.  So much so, that we bought a 20 foot shipping container to hold some of it while we finish the build.

Thankfully, our friend Danny came over with a tractor and leveled a good spot for it before it was delivered.  But in hindsight, I should have bought the 40 footer.  After moving everything from the rental house, this one is absolutely filled floor-to-ceiling, front-to-back, and we still have too much in the house for the work that remains to be done.

The move has slowed down our building efforts somewhat.  But Tina still found time to get all, but one, of the kitchen drawers finished.

And I got them fitted.

Plus a few other kitchen accessories.

In the middle of all of this, we took a break to smoke a rack of really outstanding ribs.  Tina figured out the rub for this one and I just did the fire and they came out incredible.

We also got a bunch of little stuff done – medicine cabinets hung, closet hardware installed, etc.

But the whole house effort is kind of bittersweet as we also had to have our good friend Jack put down last week.

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He could no longer get up on his own, so I think it was time.  He made it 17 years which is a good while for a 100 pound dog.  But that does not make it any easier.  Godspeed and thank you good friend.