Little boy be… tired today.
I started the morning with some uplifting music and prayer, and then I finished yesterday’s journal entry. 🎉
I really hope I can get back into my daily journaling habit. I know I’ve said that a gazillion times, but I really do hope that I can get back.
My discipline level is increasing, so that’s encouraging. I just might succeed. 🤞
Headed out for the morning muck and drag, grateful once again to see all four killdeer chickies still alive. 🙏
We chatted house stuff a bit, and I texted a bit with my niece who’s living in Scotland right now.
Good stuff. 😊
I finished mowing the back, going round and round and round to get all the dead grass to the perimeter, so it wouldn’t act as a suffocating agent for the plants under it.
I also spent a good little while clearing rocks out that I had mowed over. The blades hit rocks at least a couple times, so I gathered up hundreds of rocks to remove (or at least drastically reduce) the likelihood that the mower will hit rocks again in the future..
Let’s see… Heather and I went into the house to do some measuring (to make sure we’re ordering the correct size lumber) and framing planning (the biggest challenge of which is getting the blocking and sheetrock nailing surfaces figured out on the walls that are parallel with the roof trusses).
I think I’ve got a handle on it. My friend Cory sent me a drawing that looked pretty much identical to what I had come up with myself a good long time ago, so that was confirming.
My biggest concern was shimming. The trusses are between an eighth and a quarter of an inch higher than the top plate, which means the ceiling will drop down that far over the span of I think 24 inches? From the last truss to the top plate. I had figured it should be shimmed so there’s no drop, but Cory said that nobody would ever notice a drop that small.
So I guess we’ll decide once we do it whether we want to be perfectionists or not. 🙃
I chatted with Heather for a little bit, and she made a tasty fruit smoothie for us. 🙏 I also let the horses out to munch outside the fence and then helped Hans with the foundation drain pipe again.
There’s still one high spot that needs to be removed, so there’s a continual flow of water out if any ever gets down to the footings.
Totally forgot it was the adult session of stake conference tonight up in Rapid City, so I headed down to JH Keith Park, went for a little dip, and picked up two large deer ticks on the short walk from the dirt parking lot through the tall grass to the springs. 🙃
They will not reproduce. 😅
Heather drove us up to Rapid, which was nice. It was also nice to have AC on a hot day (it was somewhere between 93° and 98°?). I still haven’t fixed the AC in my van. I want to make sure that I’ve got AC to keep my mom comfortable this fall on our road trip, especially if we run into hot days in the muggy Midwest and New England area. 🥵
State conference was really good. I had a hard time getting going with the first couple of talks, but after that it was really really good. 🙏
Once conference was over, we grabbed some stuff at Wally World. I was hoping to get some sort of construction adhesive to fix the little plastic dealies to the fiberglass on my van, but none of the adhesives that I saw at Walmart were really good with fiberglass and plastic. Fiberglass, yes, but not plastic.
So I guess I’ll go to Home Depot in Casper next time I go templing.
Speaking of templing, I’m probably going to go Thursday this week instead of Tuesday because I’m sort of on call to be there for my neighbor in their construction project.
Anyway, I grabbed some yogurt and granola at Walmart, and then Heather and I listened to an elder Maxwell BYU speech on the drive home.
One of my favorites.
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I’m falling asleep while riding this. Having flashbacks to 2020. 😆
Guess I’ll wrap it up with this: When we got back, Hans was still plugging away digging the dry well for the foundation drain. He had busted his butt, then taken a break to watch stake conference via Zoom, and then headed back out to bust his butt some more.
Not easy on a hot day.
🙏
Heather made a tasty dinner, and I don’t really remember much more of anything right now.
But I did write my journal entry. 🎉
G’night, y’all. Love and hugs. 🤍
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 