Found the patio doors

We were at Lowes last night and as usual had to go to the door isle looking for clearance or returned items. Guess what I found my doors marked for clearance at $270! Half price for steel french patio doors.

Mom wants a smart phone

Mom here is the phone I told you about.




LAS VEGAS--Over the last few years, Kyocera has been a reliable presence at CTIA. It's had one of the best-looking booths on the show floor, it's always introduced phones, and those new handsets have stuck to the basics. This year, however, Kyocera partly broke with tradition. It still had a spiffy booth, but its new phone, the Zio M600, is hardly a low-end device.
As we told you Tuesday, the Zio is Kyocera's first Android handset and the company's first smartphone in six years (remember the 7135?). The Zio (pronounced Zeye-oh) packs the standard Android features in a touch-screen design. Sure, it lacks some flashy offerings of the new HTC Evo 4G and the Samsung Galaxy S, but that's fine with us. Kyocera says the point of the Zio is meant to be affordable and approachable--a sort of starter smartphone if you will--and the Zio succeeds in that regard.

It's never to early to celebrate the 4th

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Don't know what happened to the earlier post, the video was rough. I think this one is
a little clearer

Carport

Had an idea I finally committed to "paper". A permanent steel frame and awning material carport.

Awnings

I have been so busy this past weekend I forgot to post pictures of the awnings I made.

We bought the roll down shades about two years ago and have always wanted to make awnings out of them. What do you think? I may add them to the windows.

More updates

Hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend, but it's back to the grindstone! We've been busy around the house lately. I've finished putting up the cedar skirting.

I've moved on to the inside and starting sheet rocking. I find it fun, I know lot's of people hate it, don't really know why.

It's getting hot and the snakes are out, the cat is bringing his toys in the house now. Have I mentioned I really don't like cats, this does not help their cause. Gary walked in on the cat playing with this snake in the living room floor. Did I mention I don't like snakes either?

The garden is doing very well this year, we have a bumper crops of carrots!

Gary happy...

and very proud.

I cooked chicken with these carrots, here is the very simple but VERY tasty recipe  for Aunt Teresa's Thighs

Ingredients

• 4 chicken thighs
• 1 green bell pepper, sliced
• 2 carrots, shredded
• 1 large onion, sliced
• 2 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed cream of mushroom soup 

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a 9 x 13 inch baking dish, layer in the following order: onion, bell pepper, carrots and chicken. Pour soup over the top. Cover with aluminum foil and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 minutes. Remove foil and bake an additional 15 minutes.