Arrived Safely

We arrived at Rockin' C Ranch today at 4 pm. It was a rather stressful trip. The cold weather when starting and then getting stuck in Williams IA for 42 hours in a snow storm at a Flying J truck stop. After leaving Williams IA on Friday morning the roads were very good except for about five miles where there was black ice. We had a leisure trip the rest of the way. We were going to come in to the project on Saturday but the water at the project was frozen up so we waited until Sunday. There is snow all the way down until the lower part of OK.

This is a beautiful place. We are parked next to the horse barn. I see they have a ford tractor. I will post pictures as soon as possible. We have very good wireless here but poor cellphone reception. Email is the best way to contact us. Good night.

April 2009 project pictures

Betsy making part of the potluck supper for the SOWERS. Great fellowship around the camp fire. Thanks Betsy and Larry.

Putting in water lines. Ladies working on camp mailing.

Shingling hogan--also stained exterior.

Bill digging out tree stump.

Carole sewing.

Ladies planting shrubs Prescott, AZ in April--the snow only lasted a couple of days.

The tug of war mud pit Bill dug.

Bill's oops--he hit the hidden and unknown water shut-off while grading the road. Yes, the camp was without water while repairs were being made.

Brush to be trimmed. The "before" picture.

The "after" picture

Carole taught the ladies to quilt

Boulders Bill dug out and moved for a retaining wall. The close one is about four feet across.

Peeling logs.

Bill and "the machine"

Pictures from Prescott Pines project, Prescott, AZ

summer work at son's house

inside addition front yard

back yard patio

outside of addition

another view of front yard

These are some pictures of my work for the last two summers at paul and terri's. nlsower

New House

We are in the process of trading houses with a couple in Willmar. We will be moving in May 2010. Exciting but lots of work. BC

Nearly Christmas time

Hi out there. I have been working on getting the camper ready to head to TX to work on four SOWER projects. Jan thru April. I am putting a luggage rack on the back of the camper for a generator and air compressor. I have the frame mounted to the camper now it is making the basket to hold the "stuff". It looks like it is going to be really cold packing up.

I hope to post some pictures from this summer soon. Bye

I am back

Hi everyone. We just signed up for Jan and Feb 2010. We also sent a request for march but haven't heard back on the march request.

Jan will be at Rockin C ranch and Feb is at YWAM.

We haven't decided where to go in April.

We are looking forward to heading south--may get frost in MN tonight. nlsower

Sorry-sorry

I have sure been bad at getting the pictures from april on the blog. We have been busy working on son's house and landscaping.

We are starting to look at projects for Jan thru April 2010. Most likely in Texas. nlsower