It's About Time

Finally, I think summer is over.
Three days ago it was 101 degrees and today it’s only going to be a high of 73. Also a little rain came in with the cold front so it’s twice as good.

Tonight we are loading up for a weekend of Chili cooking in St Jo Texas. This will be our third year to go and the first time for a two day. We will be staying in the truck tent because it’s too much trouble to break down the camper. If we were not living it, then we would take it.
I have never had any luck at this cook off. The wife has made top 10 two times but not me, not even in beans. Then again, this will be the first time I have cooked this recipe up there so we will see.
A big group of folks will be staying for day two and I know this will be too much fun.

Tiny House update.

After much deliberation and redesign, we decided to make it a little bigger, two feet wider to be exact. By doing this it will cut down on the crap pieces of lumber by utilizing the complete board and give us 32 more square feet. I think this will put us out of the “Tiny House” category and into the “Small House” one.
They say (and I don’t know who they are) a tiny house is anything under 500 square feet.  We are now up to 560 square feet.
We also had to make our house pad a little bigger for it to set on. That meant bringing in more dirt and building the pad up. We will still need more dirt hauled in later to even out the edges and make it where it’s a gentle slop up to the house and not a step up.
There has even been talk about adding a widow’s walk to the middle section, but I don’t know about that yet.
The buildings should be moved in next week so we can get them in place and get started. I can’t wait to get out of the camper.

See ya next week with a picture of my first place trophy,
Jerry