Arts' Hi-topper trailer project

Oh, no, another great idea from our Idea factory. This time, it is to take our tall topper, which we paid many many dollars for (about 5 years ago) and make a covered trailer out of it. Started with a Harbor Freight trailer kit. This is the one with 1980 lb. carrying capacity. But, since this is a car which will be pulling it, we've got to keep it as light as possible. Our intention is to use it for summer travel with the car. He doesn't care for tents, I don't care for Motels. So, we should be able to use this behind the car, instead of the truck, which uses 3 times more gas than the car. We can sleep in it, stand up in it (because we are short) and use it for hauling stuff out of the weather, too. We'll see, how it works out. The whole point is, we have a use for the hi-topper now.

DJ turns '61'

Well, it's that time of year and my old tripometer clicked over to '61'. A person never knows how many you'll have, we're not given that information. The Lord gives us a certain amount of time to do the things we're supposed to do, and he takes 'his own' home in His timing. Till then, the birthdays keep coming. We waited to celebrate Saturday, when the teens and Dave could be there. Jody baked a cake, Mak pulled it out of oven and decorated it. It kinda had lumps on the top, and Jody said "It fell, lets make brownies". But, when she tried a corner it was fine, actually very good. After our BBQ steak dinner, the guys dispersed and us girls started eating the cake, and fed some to the little guys. Not much left after that.
Here are the two door greeters, who are always so anxious for us to come in the house, waiting by the door and excited. This is a great morale booster for us old people, that someone really enjoys our visits.


After dinner, we took a group pic of those of us who didn't 'bail' to the garage or retreat to their room.

Here's Mak and me. Her arms are long enough to reach out and take a pic without using the timer feature.