The rain is peaking out again, progress on our Cabin, backfilled the wall. Poppie grilled.

Saturday the girls and I spent the morning back filling the stone wall,  it is shaping up nicely.  It will really make a nice finish to the pond area.  We put the pond in 5 years ago and the lining is now needing some help.  It didn't help that the grand kids and the big dogs liked wading in it.  It has many leaks that could have been avoided had it not been so freshly excavated at the time we put it in, due to the foundation.  Never the less, it is a beautiful pond with stately burned our hollow logs that flow water and a slab that drops a nice fall of water so it is worth reworking.  We are going to line it with chicken wire and cement the bottom after patching the lining.  I hope to make some cemented water planting beds in it to contain water plants that will provide a nice habitat for fish.  We used to have a very large catfish in it be a bear came along and fished it out, which didn't help the lining one bit either.  The cement will be the best bet in the long run.  We have a bench between the pond and the rock wall made from the cement from an old clothes line some one had discarded in the woods; we picked them at of the woods thinking they would make a nice base to the bench.  They did, we added an old slab of wood to the top and wallya a upcycled bench, very sturdy too.  We hope to have all our yard rebuilds done in plenty of time for this years 4th of July block party, friends and family all welcome event.  I really will post photos as soon as I get some of the new upgrades to the yard.  The cabin in coming along great, we are to the windows at this point,  we are going to log them in as we go along. We ended the day with Poppie grilling steaks and his black forest cake, well our version of it anyway.  Yogie made it, and didn't grease the pan all that well, so it stuck but he loved it anyway.

The yard does have a great large Kleettraxs right in the middle of it, right next to the new wall so needs to be finished and gotten out of my campfire area.  Poppie has had it for 5 or 6 years, we actually did get the motor to my old 75 Mercedes into it when my well loved car broke it's A frame., thankfully in the post office parking lot and not in the wood on top of a mountain.  Poppie got hurt right after so hasn't actually been able to finish it up.  Bug and BigJ have offered to finish it up for him.  It will be nice to be able to move it and it will be a God send for fixing potholes in the road and for plowing come winter.  I am thinking the boys have ideas of how they want to use it and borrow it from ole dad as well.  It is a 1949 tiny bulldozer.  I guess it won't actually be a Kleettraxs when it is done more a mercedtrax or some other high bred name.  I will be a very use full tool either way.

We had a nice day at church but both Poppie and I were a little sick all afternoon,  I actually napped and rested, maybe a much needed day of rest.  Poppie spent time with Bug and BigJ.  They did go pickup a dresser for me at Sisters.  They did a bunch of guy things as well so a nice day for Poppie.  The girls made dinner which was a nice treat. They made firtata, toast, with strawberries and cream  for dessert.  I like slow days when you don't have to do anything you don't want to.  I did manage to go out and help with the feeding of the goats, it is always a joy to watch them frolic around the pen, no worries just play and tag on their agendas.... tomorrow.