Finished!!

Here is the finished product. For the most part I am pretty happy with the end result. The special, customized touch is that I am betting this is the only Noah's Ark picture with border collies in it. My friend has a 15 year old border collie that she and her family have to put down for health reasons. (he's got old creaky joints and is now in congestive heart failure). I hope this is a special way to remember him.

Crossing my fingers

My best friend is PCSing in a couple of weeks, and as a going away present from our women's group I am painting a Noah's Ark picture (she collects Noah's Arks) and will have everyone sign the back of the painting. Here is a sketch of what I have done. I am hoping that it will look good painted on canvas as well.

Jessica's New "Toy"

Pretty much ever since we moved into our house I have been bugging Brian to put a clothesline in for me. I love the way clothes, especially bedding, smell when they are dried on the line. Plus, living in Arkansas means I can use my clothesline April through October. Talk about a great savings on our electricity bill!! In August of 2007 I put in a circle clothesline. However, I really couldn't put the bedding on it or really even a full load of laundry. Mom was telling me that Dennis knows how to weld and if I asked real nice like and paid for the materials, then he might make me a t-bar clothesline. This last trip to Nebraska was the perfect opportunity since Brian was along to help haul stuff and we have a truck now to haul stuff with. All I asked Dennis was if we paid for the material and if Brian helped, would he mind making the clothesline. He said sure. To me surprise, he had two already made and in his barn that had been previously dug out his yard. Yea!!! Over the weekend Brian "lovingly" put the in the ground for me. I just love having a big clothesline!!

When we left Nebraska, we just put the posts in and let them lean against the tailgate. That make for a big pain for packing the truck bed and a big pain when we had to lower the tailgate to let Kodiak in and out. When we got to Texas Brian and his dad made this great custom clothesline post holder. I highly reccomend it for anyone traveling with a clothesline post. The a-frame section was snug up against the tailgate, so once it was closed those bad boys weren't going anywhere.