Spring Flowers and Some Nice Touches

It's been three months since we've been to the barndominium and it'll be about six months until we're there again, but that doesn't mean nothing is happening.  Some work continues on the electrical and we've ordered a couple of nice things for the new place.  The first is a "Christie" medallion for the front gate (yet to be constructed).  There's a manual, locked gate there now but ultimately will be a nice, stone automatic gate and this emblem will be part of the new gate.

And while on a business trip to NYC right after our working visit to Texas, Julie bought a nice chandelier.  In previous blogs, you could see the vaulted ceiling in the main kitchen, dining and living area.  The chandelier will probably go over the area for the main dining table.

And this Spring, given the amount of rain they've had in Texas the past few months (after 2 years of terrible drought), we finally have vegetation and wild flowers on the property again.  You can see the pump house on the right side of the picture as well as my old Ford 8N tractor in the middle.  The propane tank has pretty well disappeared in the vegetation (or could be just slightly to the right of the frame).  Either way, it's really nice to see the wild flowers and vegatation on the property again after two years of virtually nothing growing.  I hope the trees have profited from the rain and I'm sure that much of the rain is making its way down to replenish the aquifer.  Let's hope the rains continue.

Above is a very nice shot across the width of the property showing the vegetation this Spring, the wild flowers and the barndominium in the background.  Wish we were there, but we'll be there soon enough and there's a lot of work we'll hopefully get done between now and then, so when we have some new progress and pictures, we'll post again.

And as a final post for this session of blogging, here's a nice shot of Ivy and Jude running through the wildflowers.  Thanks to Bob Denson for the photo.  We appreciate Bob's willingness to be our "eyes" when we're not there.