The Hot One On Paiute: June 2008

Sunday, June 29, 2008

AberWHA????

Check it - we were playing with our cameras at an activity we had with Sac 4th. I know, I know. Janice Dickinson doesn't know what she's missing!!! And I'll have you know that I did not pay money for the shirt I am wearing. Somebody gave it me.

From L to R - Ariane, JT, WooWoo, TL

Provident Living

Not sure if ya'll are aware of the variety of natural disasters that have been occurring nationwide, if not worldwide, recently:

Tornadoes in Colorado
Flooding in Ohio
Wildfires in California

It seems like they are happening more and more frequently these days. I can't help but to think that the last days really are here. As we've been encouraged by our church leaders, I'm beginning to realize the importance of having a food storage.

On Saturday, the American River Branch had an activity at the local cannery. We were able to can our own food to our individual orders. In less than two hours, we canned enough to fill the orders of eight people. It went quicked than I had ever anticipated. With the exception of three additional cases of wheat, I have my year supply of grains for one person. It feels so good to have that done. Now I just have to find a place for it all.

Here are pictures of the food storage:

For your information, the church's website, http://www.providentliving.org/, has a lot of information on what should be included in a food storage. There is also a calulcator for your use to calculate the amount of essentials needed for a specified amount of time.

More Paiute #10

We've all been busy with Paiute #10, including Mom, Dad, Grant & Loren. Mark, the painter, starts painting the exterior on Monday. I've been working like crazy to get everything done he asked that I get done so that he can start. Wednesday I was over there until about 7:00, Thursday until 9:00 and Friday I left work at 11:30 because there was still so much needing to be done. Grant met me at the house on Friday with my $50 piece of redwood for the joist up at the top of the roof. Apparently there was a little bit of dry rot in the old one that needed to be repaired. Unfortunately, 2x8s produced today are NOT the same size as they were back in the day. The old was 1 7/8 x 7 1/2, whereas the new ones are typically 1 1/2 x 7 1/4. I had to make some phone calls but found a home building supply place that had what I needed. I had Grant go retrieve the 16ft piece with the truck. As you can see, it has been installed.

Here are pictures of the new siding on the back of both #10 and 12 (that's me!). As you will see, I have mitered the corners of the new window trim this time around.

As long as I was in the mode, I felt like I needed to redo the window trim on my side as well. You can see by what looks like two different colors in the paint where the old trim used to be compared to where the new trim is:

At the same time, I've been trying to get stuff done on the inside as well. Mom and Dad came over last Saturday to help with the kitchen. Here are the little darlings hard at work:

Apparently it was nap time...on the stove!

First I wasn't going to repaint the cabinets. Once the doors came off and the hinges removed, you could see where the hinges had been and that the new hinges were not going to cover those areas. At this point I was concerned that I'd have to repaint everything:

I put a few coats of paint on the cabinets just to see how it would look. Once I washed all of the doors, they looked great...enough!

For additional pictures, go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnryan1978/.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

San Luis Obispo

A few weeks ago, my cousin Lynzy graduated from Arroyo Grand High School in "Arroyo Grungey" as the locals like to call it. Mom, Dad, TL (the adopted son and nephew) and myself drove on down to San Luis Obispo. We left Wednesday night after work. At approximately 7:25, yours truly got pulled over by some young punk cop. He claims I had fractured the speed limit by 30 mph (whatever) and that I might have been tailgating. I'm not normally a big tailgater so I'm still not sure what he's talking about. It looks like I'll be making a trip to Los Banos to defend myself and attempt to decrease the severity of this thing. All I can think about is how much my insurance is going to go up.

Thursday was the day of the actual graduation. Here's Lynzy and Penny...Ms. Hollywood on her phone!

Here we sit in the stands waiting for Lynzy to walk. Don't worry though, we only had to listen to one ENTIRE speech in frikkin Spanish!

KEN LEE is something we found on YouTube. Lynzy liked it so much that I told her we'd represent at her graduation. We yelled "KEN LEE" a few times throughout the ceremony for her benefit. If you're wondering what "KEN LEE" is, take a look at this, you're going to DIE!:

Here is Mom Turner, PDizzle, and Cindi:

Friday we went to Montana de Oro, which is a CA state park. It was lovely there...until I lost my sunglasses (yes, on top of my ticket, I lost my VERY nice sunglasses).

This is a cave up in the rocks there where I did a little climbing action. I believe this to be the place at which my sunglasses and I said our goodbyes:

We then headed on over to Morro Bay (aka Moron Bay) and had lunch at Rosie's which was fantastic! $5.99 fish tacos that were teriffic!

Where do I start?!?!

We'll start out with the house. Escrow closed at the end of May. We had to file for an extension but still managed to miss the deadline. What can ya do?! The end result is that it's finally mine! Paiute Place is all mine!

The past few weeks, my peeps and I have been working like bees on Paiute #10. We started with the replacement of the siding as some of it had termite damage. The good news is that not a single termite was to be found! Whew! Here are a few pictures of the siding project so far so you can get an idea. More pictures can be found here, http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnryan1978/