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Texas House Sold!

Well this week has been an adventure with alot of late nights!  We finally closed on selling the Texas house on Tuesday, it was supposed to have closed last week but the buyer did not have the money in yet.  So Wednesday called the father (only number we had) of the people who own the house next to our property in Minnesota to see if they were interested in selling. He was going to pass on the information to his daughter and soon in law but as of today we have not heard back so will probably give another call tomorrow to make sure they copied my number right but may hold off another week.   We heard rumors they were planning on selling this summer so we will keep the fingers crossed.

Chris left to go back to Mn/ND this week, he got back just in time for a PT test!  I am looking forward to getting back there myself in a couple weeks.  Have so much to day when we get there!  Other then that been building inventory for my sale next week, up to about 60 items but wanted to be close to 90 so will have to step it up the rest of the week.

Made my first set of darts this week, these are 20 Oz steel tips, did not come out perfect but they are usable for my first set of them!  Now need to find a steel tip dart board around here to try to them out! Here is what they look like!  Did have a crack in one of them but not to bad.

 We changed time this week, I am happy they change here on Thursday night just before the weekend so you have all weekend to adjust!  Will be a busy couple of weeks before I leave!  Still need to do a planting plan tonight before I head to bed and send it my brother in law, who is going to start prepping the land for me for tree planting so will cut it a little short, will leave you with some pics of this weeks pen turning!



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