Wednesday April 6, 2011

Seems like I was busy all day. Between the regular stuff and all the project type stuff. There was cooking everyone breakfast, washing laundry and dishes, watering my seeds, and my turn to cook dinner, JB usually cooks, oh and taking care of the kids and pets. The kids' workbooks for home schooling came in. Arianna was ready to get started, she did 2 subjects today. I also fought with the computer for a while because it didn't want to print for me. JB made a batch of cranberry sauce and I canned it. We still have a lot of cranberries from when they went on sale at the beginning of the year. JB has perfected his cranberry sauce so he makes it, but he has been feeling so bad that he hasn't been up to it.
Then this evening we realized that the big oak in the backyard that shades most of the house grew enough to block reception of local channels on the satellite. We don't want to trim the tree because the shade really helps in the summertime. So we decided we want to move the dish and do a pole mount in the yard. We picked a spot and started clearing that area of the small trees and vines. Tomorrow JB is going to go get the stuff for mounting the dish while I clean up all the leaves and brush. We are going to put up the pole and bury conduit for the cable ourselves. Since I worked for DirecTV as an install tech I know what needs to be done and that it is considered a custom install and costs a lot of extra money if the tech does it. Since we don't have a ladder tall enough I will have to have a tech come out and actually move the dish from the 2nd story roof to the pole, but that is just a relocate. We are going to later landscape around the pole to keep the kids away from it, and I have some cute little picket fence looking garden border to use with it too.
At last count today, 25 of the tomatoes have sprouted. I am looking forward to fresh produce. And my plastic pots shipped yesterday, so they will be here soon.