Dana's home Made Smoker

I gave Dana the rusty box in this photo. Using the existing holes, he turned it into a smoker.

Yes, that is an old propane bbq on the top.

The metal box already had the hinges on the top.

This is where he loads the wood.

Note the hole in the lid, that is where the smoke goes up like a chimny.

He matched the hole from the lid and put one in the bbq right above the lid hole

At the bottom of the metal box he added a door to an existing hole where he lights the wood.

Tada one home made smoker...  Works great! 

All my little helpers

Bailey has been especially brave lately. 

It used to be she would hide in the back room when ever I started working on a project. 

Then after she got the thundershirt I would see her peeking around the corner at me.

Today I caught her standing in the driveway looking up at the roof checking out what I was doing... 

with NO thundershirt on to boot!

What a brave girl she is turning into! 

Gator on the other hand is always close by.

She got a bit dirty helping Natasha dig up a mole.

Natasha better be careful she is about to be pounced on! 

Doesn't Louis appreciate the fact that Natasha needs to supervise the opperation!

Cats

Natasha has been doing alot of supervising on the roofing project.

I got a kick out of the dialation of Louis' eyes.

He was watching a bird in the bushes.

This is the view I have when Suzi is out walking Gator.  

That is Natasha on the left, Louis on the right, and Bailey dog in the center.

We enjoyed the serenade we recieved from this little bird while we worked on the carport roof.

reminder: if you want to see how the carport or deck I have links on our web page at www.gingerthebrave.blogspot.com on the right side of the page.

A friend of ours gave us one of those upsidedown tomato planters so...

We bought a cherry tomato plant, but the 1st tomatoes are a bit large.

Maybe that is because we got miracle grow dirt?

The first tomato was really sweet.  nummy

dragonfly

Just a shot of a dragonfly we saw yesterday while roaming the yard.

Louis and Natasha

Just a cute shot of the cats.

 Louis on the left, and Natasha on the right.

They are watching Gator dog play.

We saw the white tip on this fawns ear and thought it was a new adult deer...

Then we looked at the pic and realized... yeah a fawn from this year.

Looks real healthy, not like last years scraggly fawns.

We were at Marymoor park and saw this rain squall just before sunset.

Humming bird

The Hummingbird really likes the fuschia hanging basket we have.

Louis

Louis is glad the deck is on hold.  He wants me to leave it this way forever!

Rubarb

We had a hot snap this summer, and the rubarb was quite happy about it. 

That leaf is over 2ft wide!

Turkey Vulture

My buddy came by to say hi today.  I let him/her know I'm not ready...  yet... ;)

Beckler River off road daytrip.

It was too hot to do anything, so we decided to hop in the truck with some a/c and head for the hills thinking it would be cooler at a higher elevation... 

We decided to explore a single track road near Beckler River campground just East of the town Skykomish WA.

The road was rough, and twisted and curved up to an elevation of just over 2000ft.  We were wrong, it was significantly hotter here than at home.oops...

The end of the road did have a  beautiful view of the surrounding mountains. 

We stopped on the way back down.  This is the road we traveled.

We noticed this huge cedar tree.  Suzi went over to be scale for the tree.  She makes good scale...