Jerry's Shop Air Conditioner

We bought a large air conditioner at an estate sale last year for Jerry's shop building. Just now got it put in his window.


First we mounted the case in the window.
















The air conditioner is very heavy so it took awhile to figure out how to raise it up to the window.










Finally decided to use the car ramps but put the in the wrong place and it raised the unit up too high to slide it in place.

So we pulled it back down and moved the ramps down to a cross brace below the window. That did the trick - we slid it right into place.,




































It does put out some cold air so hopefully this summer it will work well for him.

Texas Panel Quilt Number One

Texas Panel Quilt Number One

This beautiful quilt started with half square triangles in red, white and blue and evolved from there, using a panel and Texas and bluebonnet fabric from a lovely quilt shop.

The quilt has cotton batting and muslin backing with red binding. It is long arm quilted in a meandering pattern and measures eighty by eighty-eight inches. It is shown on a king size bed.

Oh, The Memories!

While cleaning up files and going through some old pictures on my computer, I found these wonderful memories of our biker days!

I haven't found a picture of my first bike - a '86 Suzuki 550. I rode it quite a bit and started selling AVON in Odessa and delivering my orders on it. It was chain drive and I told Jerry that it was undignified for me to have chain lube on my pants!

A fellow biker friend had a bike shop in Lubbock and said he had the prefect bike for me. I sold my 550 to an Avon customer and rode behind Jerry on his bike to Lubbock.

I took the '76 Gold Wing for a spin around Lubbock and loved it. I put 50,000 miles on. Jerry made me an Avon sign to hang on the back and I had a little trailer that I picked up my orders with.



Same bike painted after having to lay it down to avoid 18 wheeler who ran a stop sign right in front of me. Looks like a police bike - I had no more problems!

My next bike was an Aspencade but I didn't drive it much. It had battery issues and about that time we decided to give up riding.

I made vests for us and our kids, who always went with us.

I think this was at Ft. Davis in the mountains. We had an interesting time there with a rally. Mother Nature decided to dump snow and ice on us and our tents in the middle of the night. Not fun getting home that time - they sent all of us "blizzard survivor" pins for our vests!









This was Jerry's first sidecar. It did not do well in the rain!! We went on vacation and it rained from Odessa to Oklahoma. It collected water with one of the kids in it. Relatives in Ponca City OK dried us all out and helped Jerry drill drain holes in it.

The kids played musical bikes - one rode behind Jerry, one in the side car and one behind me. When we filled up with gas they changed places. I pulled a camping trailer behind my bike with sleeping bags, tents and ice chests.

Second sidecar was much better. We ordered it from England and it was fully enclosed.  At one point, we did not even own a car, just bikes.

We had a lot of fun on them for many years. Still miss it sometimes.

52 Years. . .

Happy 52nd Anniversary Jerry. I love you more!!

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Kitchen Remodel

This is the way our kitchen used to look.





















The first thing we did was to take the trim down and cut off the dated scallops.

Jerry used the router to round the cut edges and put the trim back up.

It really changed the look of the kitchen.














The next project was to remove two small drawers to make room for a new oven.

We ordered the Kenmore oven and mad the opening according to the specifications listed for it. When the oven arrived, it would not fit. Jerry had to trim out 1/4 inch at the top for it to go into opening.


























It looks good and works well!





















We then started cleaning and preparing for anew look with light grey paint.

We had some help from our friend, Richard, our realtor.

The grey worked out beautifully! It goes well with the pale yellow counter tops. We painted above the cabinets with white and the kitchen looks so much brighter.

I love the new look!!

Goodbye little Scion!

Goodbye little "toaster" car. You gave us very good service for eleven years. Such a fun little car to drive. I remember when we first got you, Jerry said he was going to paint you like a McDonald's happy meal and put a handle on top!!



 I hope the new owners love you as much as we did. New young lady owner will have to learn how to drive a stick shift but she won't have problems learning.

























You made a great ambulance for the drive from Cross Plains to Abilene getting Jerry to the hospital after his heart attack. Never would have believed you  could do 105 miles an hour but you did good!

Thanks to son, Jay for "doctoring" this picture for us back in 2008.

We will miss you.


Here is your replacement.



 A Ford Escape is bit larger and heavier. Less fuel mileage but a safer car on the roadways. It has more bells and whistles than you had and I really like them.






 It will take me awhile to quit looking for the clutch and trying to shift gears with this one being automatic.