ARRRGGGGHHHH!

It's Memorial Day.  Borepatch said it best.  "Remember the cost".  Sons and daughters never born.  Grandsons and Granddaughters also.  Greatgrand...The only thing more tragic would have been if they hadn't payed the cost.   Heroes all.  Rest In Peace, Warriors.  You did your duty well.

On an infinitely less important note...

Big Week here at Rancho Juvat.  El nuevo hogar de Juvat has changed significantly over the past week.  So much so, that I recorded a walkthrough video fully intending to present it for your viewing pleasure.

Howsomeever,  my mastery of things electronic seems to have vanished.  I cannot, for the life of me, get the (&(^%*&%^!!! thing off the phone.  I can see it when connected to my PC, but when I try to copy it, import it, use the Photo's app on the PC, or any of the other things I've seen online to fix the problem, it still says the phone is "Not connected".  

Apple, I've never been a fan of your products.  This isn't changing that.

So...You're going to get stills.  

(Also taken with the same phone, and opening the same phone, clicking on the pictures, copy, paste in the PC, works like a champ, but not the flippin' movie.  Hence, you may sense why the title of this post is the title of this post.)

Anyhoo, last Wednesday, after feeding the horses their evening meal, I noticed the supervisor was at the house.  Mrs J and I do a daily walk through at that time, so we went over.  I asked him what was next as we had had the insulation installed and inspected, so were through with that step.  He said the Dry Wall hangers were going to show up Monday and as soon as they were finished, the Bricklayers and Stone Mason would begin work.

Well...Monday was a no show, but Tuesday, bright and early, the Dry Wall guys showed up. and got to work.

Yes, Beans they really do use stilts.

 Thursday evening, when I did my walk through, virtually everything was done, but they said they were low on drywall and would return on Monday (Today).  I let the supervisor know and he said he'd take care of it.  

The rounded corners really make the doors

That center beam will be wrapped in Cedar when finished, not sure why they put drywall on underneath

Saturday morning early, I hear the rumble of traffic headed up to the site.  A little later, as I head up to feed the horses (twice a day, it's the highlight of my day!), I notice a guy shoveling sand and mortar into a mixer.  By the time I'm done with the hayburners, he and his partner are starting to brick the north side of the house. 

Since virtually nobody is going to see this side of the house, cheap little old me, decided that would be solid brick vice brick bottom, limestone top for the rest of the front.

By that evening, that face was finished.

Since the next day was Sunday, I figured we would be undisturbed until this morning.  Nope, just after dawn, I heard the trucks again, peeked out and it was the Bricklayers.  Worked all day  and this is where they were when I went to press.

It's really starting to look a lot like a home, now and it's much easier to get a feel for how it's going to look.  Mrs J is starting to get excited, I'll confess I am also.  

Although I still looking at Christmas as a move in date.

Now to change the subject, my former office mates sent me a link to a video asking me if this was what flying a fighter was really like.

I have to answer...Sorta!

It's obviously filmed from the cockpit on an actual flight, but the maneuvers are much more smoothly applied than shown in the film for a lot of different reasons.  But...It does give you a view of flying a high performance fighter.  

Just as an aside, as I was watching, I could feel my stomach and leg muscles tensing as the first step in the G straining maneuver.