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October is Gone

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The Mystery of the Bicycle - it appeared across the street one day.... stayed there for a couple months... then as quickly as it appeared, it disappeared.  Never saw anyone ride it, we just watched it sit until it was there no more. We finished our summer and introduction to fall this year with family & dear friend visits in and around Yakima, WA.  Our plans were up in the air going into the trip, during the trip and returning from the trip!  We pretty much have been living day to day with a general sense of where we want things to go.  We must like the flexibility and adventure of it all.  Not really knowing what will happen from day to day is a good way to watch and appreciate all the amazing things that just seem to happen.  Things seemed a bit hectic as we prepared ourselves and thoughts for the big 2025 family visit.  The summer season is somewhat limited in eastern Idaho, so everyone is trying to fit in all the summer they can before the cold...
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August 2025

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 It seems like we've been busy, but don't have too many pictures to show for it.  We've worked on a few small projects around home and one very big project.  In the picture below Steve proudly displays the Dinger Improvement Project.  This consisted of painting the PVC riser, re-setting the internal re-bar that supports the riser, re-manufacturing the Dinger mount out of Trex board as the original plywood mount had degraded over the last 2 years, cleaning and servicing the Dinger itself, re-engineering the attachment of the fancy address sign,  and then reinstalling everything so it is now plumb.  What is a Dinger you ask?  It is a proximity sensor that alerts us with a DING inside when anything or anyone comes up our driveway.  The big project was the addition of a small storage building.  Below the materials arrive a week before construction would start.  The Crew lead on this build was Freddy, so we affectionately call this new additi...
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