house talk: taping and muddin' and a summer evening walk

House report from me and hello from Kya!

The crew finished sheetrocking last week.

The house is looking more and more like a home each day.


Yesterday they started taping and mudding the walls.

This evening Corey took Kya and I for a walk along the railroad tracks.

It was a beautiful evening.

Kya thoroughly enjoys the outdoors.

The farm fields just east of our land are full of hay bales. It's really pretty.

Our little pond still has quite a lot of water in it

Lots of whatever this is ... wheat maybe?

Kya was tuckered out after the walk. I didn't want to leave ... I think I could have stayed the night, if only we had running water hooked up. Corey and I were playing "guess the bird noise" with all the squaking and gobbling and who knows what else. We saw some pelicans fly over too – but they didn't say much.

After the walk, we drove over to Harmon Lake. The dam for the lake is just west of our land, across Hwy 1806. We'll definitely be spending some time at the lake. There were lots of people there this evening ... some camping, some fishing, and some hiking.