Disher Family Fodder
Solomon Wickey
My wife and I and a couple friends of ours went to see Solomon this morning. My wife had been to see him a couple times before.
If you don’t know who Solomon is, you could start by taking a look at this book that was written about him: Solomon’s Touch.
Molly competed yesterday at the Flip-N-Twist Invitational a local meet that was held at Lakota West High School. (What a nice facility by the way).
She did very, very well. She came in 4th Overall for her age group in Level Four. She notched a 1st place in Beam, 4th in Bars, a 7th in Vault and I think 11th in floor. I might have the last two switched. Vault is such a messed up event at this level. All the vaults are same, they all look the same. I mean it’s really hard to tell an 8.xx vs. a 9.xx in vault. A good vault is a good vault, and a bad one is bad. But it’s very tough and the judging for vault really seems to vary meet to meet.
This was her best Beam performance yet, and probably her best Bar routine yet too even though the scoring didn’t really indicate that.
Molly’s final meet of the season will be the state championships for Level 4 & 5 in St Mary’s OH the weekend of April 21st. We still don’t know when she will be competing yet.
We’re very proud of her.
Spring time…
Time to clean up the yard, fire up the mower, pickup all the sticks (logs) that have fallen out of the trees.
Ugh, I need to do some maintenance on the the o’l BobCat Zero turn.
It’s time for complete fluid changes. Oil and Hydro drive fluids. I put this off last year because the design of this thing is not so hydro-drive oil change friendly.
Now the walk behind has its issues too. I broke the starting rope this winter trying to start it to move it out of the way. No good.
My record with re-stringing pull starts is not a positive one. I think I’m like 0-3. Generally I end up taking the cover off, and to get to the old rope that’s left you have to take the winder thing out. Somewhere along there, that’s when I here the ‘ping’ and “Pssst??? as the spring unwinds and everything falls apart. I’m not sure that I’ve ever gotten it put back together. Nope, not on a lawnmower, or weed whacker, so we’ll have to see how this goes.
Alright!
So we’ve framed out the rafters across one side. Now we need to deal with what we’re going to cover them with.
Our original thought was wood paneling, you know the wainscot looking board, but the unfinished stuff is outrageous right now. The dimensions are also screwed up. Still per sq foot it’s probably the best bet.
I did find some nice unfinished flooring at lumber liquidators that would be awesome. (Yeah flooring on the walls) but in this old house it would rock!
I’m going to look into some tongue and groove boards, 12″x some really long length and see if it is in any way shape economical. I doubt it but it would far easier to put up than something that runs vertically.
Heck anything that runs horizontally will be far easier to put up.
We still need to box in the sky-lights too, but that’s a “We’ll figure it out when we get there” kind of thing.
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The Deposit has been made.
Let the barn building commence.
Let’s see, things that are going to put a drain on the ol hip pocket:
Barn: (check)
Fence: (still waiting on final damages)
Stalls: (I don’t even want to know)
Barn will need electric: (We have a couple options here, none are cheep)
Barn will need water: (Drilling a well, boo-yeah, that will come later)
Build a Tack Room and Feed Storage: (ooh, my head hurts)
Gravel for driveway: (anyone have spare rocks they don’t need?)
Motorcycles are way cheaper than horses, that’s all I gotta say.
🙂
OK, *most* motorcycles are cheaper than horses, and OK they don’t love you back