OneThing #35 - Get Pole Barn Photos Off Phone

I'm blogging this on Tuesday instead of Sunday because I wanted to do more. I should know by know! I successfully got all my photos together in one place on my hard drive. I sorted them by date into folders. I put them all on a flash drive for Louie. There are 441 pictures!

I also intended to put the "best" into a folder to do a slideshow or video . . . and that hasn't happened yet. But my stated goal WAS achieved (by Friday!) I need to be good with that and move on to this week already.

I love this picture because Titus quickly developed an affinity for the pole barn. He got to be off-leash, running around and playing inside. 

Louie and Mike plan to frame up the workshop next. I still hope to make a "greatest" hits folder to show the progress. It feels as though this has taken an incredibly long time (and a lot of money!) but I love the space and pray we will use it well for many years to come.

Oh, and now that I'm at home, I'll back up those 441 photos to our "home cloud" for further safekeeping.

2025 OneThing #25 - Read and Blog Book Club Book (FAIL)

This goal seemed like a no-brainer. We'd be up at the lake for two weeks, so I'd have plenty of time to read and blog. I'd be back in town for book club discussion on May 27 (last night). Perfect. (FYI - I still haven't finished the book completely and it's Wednesday of the next week's OneThing already. I *did* finish all the parts of the Medora Baby Quilt, though!)

We spent two weeks up at the lake to build our pole barn. The cement slab was in place last fall. We had ordered materials. We had Louie's brother Mike (a construction worker) and our son Nick (the engineer who made our plans) as well as our son Alex for a weekend.

For over a solid week, we all worked hard. I stayed on the ground and fetched things and handed things up. I cooked and did dishes. I ran errands. I did not have much time to read. Over Memorial Day weekend, Morgan and his boys came up. I switched to playing with my grandsons while still cooking and doing dishes. 

 

Over those two weeks, Louie and the guys did this: