At the beginning of this year, I told my husband that I would make a vegetable patch in the yard, and I would grow vegetables, strawberries, etc. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info It wasn't until April that the weather warmed up, and my husband nailed a square with a wooden strip and said it was my garden, the vegetable patch, for me to see. I said, "It's too small!" I want to eat more. My husband said: Who knows if you are playing. If you really feel good this year, I'll get you a bigger vegetable patch next year. So he called John, two of them

I went to the supermarket and bought the soil for growing vegetables and flowers, and directly spread the soil on the grass, saying that the grass underneath is also fertilizer. What a stingy bag! Such a big yard made me a vegetable patch the size of a palm! I despise you so badly!

Next, we went to the supermarket and bought tomato seedlings, pepper seedlings directly planted on the ground, and many kinds of seeds, such as peas, sword beans, carrots, onions, radish, spinach, lettuce, etc. The palm-sized vegetable patch really can't grow so many seeds. My husband planted half of the crop and left half of it, saying that some vegetables could be planted again after the harvest. It was very interesting for me to watch my husband grow vegetables upstairs, and I took a ruler and a rope to measure the length and calculate the distance. What an engineer!

After planting the seeds, my husband came back every day to look at the menu, and at first I boasted that I would water and water the flowers every day. But then I forgot about it, so my husband came back every day to water it himself. Slowly, the task of watering fell on the husband's head. My husband bought tomatoes on the shelves and made nets for peas and sword beans to climb on. He also pulled out a lot of small seedlings, saying that they couldn't be allowed to grow too crowded, otherwise they wouldn't grow big. It's a pity that there are so many dishes!

But the angry thing is that my husband is in a hurry to harvest, so he pulls out the little carrots that have just grown, washes them, and tells me that they can be eaten! I am so angry, this is too small, right? I said can't you wait for them to grow bigger? My husband said, they are so big, you can eat them! I am so angry! I am so angry! I say: You are not allowed to pull my vegetables again, I will pull them myself!

This is the carrot baby that my husband plucked, and they can actually grow even bigger!

On Saturday, my husband worked from 9:30 a.m. until 8 p.m. and didn't finish work until dark (except for 2 friends, who left at 5 o'clock when they had something to do at home). On Sunday (today), my husband got up at half past six, and he was so excited that he didn't shave his beard for the past two days, and he bought breakfast at McDonald's, and his friends came at half past seven, and a few people ate breakfast and started working. It was all done and cleaned up until 3:30 p.m. After a total of 17 hours in 2 days, their work efficiency was really amazing, even our eldest lady and good friend Skylar were amazed, and 2 girls wrote a note "GOODJOB, Guys" and pasted it on the window to praise them.

A smiling flower thief ---- tadpole

This weekend, my husband finally planned to go to the house to remove the tiles and change the roof of our house. As early as last year, he nagged that he wanted to change. At first, I didn't agree with it, because we had been planning to change houses in two years, so there was no need. But my husband has his own opinions, saying that before changing houses, he must maintain all aspects of the house. It happened that there was a hail last year, I took a few photos, and he printed out the photos, saying that the hail had some damage to the roof, and the insurance company might compensate us some money. Soon the insurance company sent someone to check and really compensated more than 6,000 US dollars. I felt like pie was falling from the sky again, but I paid us $4,800 first, and the remaining $1,500 said I'd pay us when we got a new roof. Because a lot of people just take the compensation money and don't change the roof. My husband didn't think it was anything and said: We have to pay a high amount of home insurance every year, and this is our own money.

After returning from China in July, my husband started shopping for roofing materials. I gave him a budget of no more than $6,000 from the insurance company, and he planned to ask a few of his good friends to help. Because my husband has helped many people before, he has helped his friends change more than 20 roofs alone, and almost never charges, unless some friends insist on paying him a salary. So this time we can also save a lot of labor costs, and his friends are willing to help us. But the husband said that he still had to pay his salaries to his friends. Personally, I think this method is better, because the labor cost in the United States is very expensive, so that friends help each other, mutual benefit, both save money and gain friendship. Personally, you can learn a lot by helping others. My husband said with deep understanding that many of his skills were learned in the process of helping people. So, my husband's friends are all hands-on, skilled, and helpful.

On Friday afternoon, my husband deliberately left work early because the roofing materials had to be delivered to my door. John also came over to help, and the two of them discussed tomorrow's roof change.

Boomtruck delivery is coming, it's a truck with a boom

The driver holds a remote control and directs the crane to deliver the material directly to the roof

Tadpole children also came to see the excitement

Husband and John pick up materials on the roof

At half past six o'clock in the morning on Saturday, the dumpster rented by my husband was delivered, which was a large garbage truck that looked like a carriage, holding waste materials removed from the roof. At around 9 o'clock, five of his friends came with their own tools. My husband said that they brought their own tools when they went out to work.

Lo and behold, the young man Ryan came in his construction truck. He is only 26 years old and started a construction repair company two years ago. His father was a good friend of John's, and he met his husband 17 years ago when he was helping John and Teri's family build a house, when the young man was only 9 years old!

Each person came with 1 or 2 ladders. We also have 3 ladders in our house

Shovel down the old roof first

Begin to lay the edges of the house with black material for winter anti-icing

The roof has already begun to be laid here

The old roof is still being demolished

This is a photo taken by my husband on the rooftop, which was shown to the inspectors at the city hall. The light blue grid material is used for waterproofing. Because the city hall staff has to come to the door to inspect it, and they want to see the materials you use inside.

Tadpole children are at the scene

When the girl saw the ladder, she was very excited, and she wanted to run over to play, but was drunk by her mother. The girl cried, and then her mother took her to the other side to play.

Everyone worked until almost 3 o'clock before they thought about eating. My husband and I got them grilled food, which was barbecue sausages and hamburgers

There are also potato salads, bread, onions, cheese, various sauces. Typical American outdoor barbecue food. American men love it.

Americans always have to put on such a radio when they work, and work while listening to songs. We had one at home, and Ryan brought another one himself.

The following 2 photos were taken by my husband on the rooftop, or for the city hall.

Roger is in his 50s, and his husband didn't let him work on the roof, letting him clean up the clutter underneath. Working on the roof can still be dangerous. This is when he cleans up the debris, he uses a magnet to clean up the nails that fell on the grass little by little, and then he uses a vacuum cleaner to clean the barbecue station and its surroundings. The old gentleman also said to me that he likes to do these jobs very much (changing the roof, building a barbecue station, building a warehouse, etc.), and it is very fun.

Cleanup after completion at 3:30 p.m

It was finally completed at 3:30 p.m. The squares on the roof are ventilation holes. The material my husband used this time is better, the name is "lifetimeroof", which can be used for more than 30 years. In the end, there were a few packets of materials left, and he said that he would leave one bag for backup, and return the rest to the mall. In fact, this package is reserved for future residents, because we plan to change houses and move out in 2 years. Lao Mei's work is still a little different from ours, if I choose materials, I won't choose such a good one, anyway, I don't live for long. My husband said that this is not his way of doing things!

In the past 2 days, tadpoles are very interested in changing the roof of my father and his friends, not only do they like to play with all kinds of ladders, but they often have to stand there for a long time to watch. Dad said proudly: he can train tadpoles to be small builders, little carpenters. I know that my husband has always hoped that there will be a successor and pass on his skills to future generations. However, with the tadpole mother here, his conspiracy cannot succeed! How can a girl be raised as a man?

Expose the tadpole daddy's arsenal (partial). It is said that it is a 3-lane garage that can park 3 cars, but in fact, only 1 car, 1 lawn mower, 1 motorcycle, and other places are used to store all kinds of tools for the old man, as well as various wood and other materials. Tadpoles like to sit on the lawn mower to play, and it is estimated that the father wants to train tadpoles to mow the grass, because the tadpole mother is lazy and does not want to learn, anyway, there is a husband who mows the grass every week.

In the end, my husband still paid a lot of wages to a few friends, some of whom accepted, and some of whom didn't ask for a penny.

At 6 o'clock in the evening of August 2, the annual community dinner party in our community began. I read in our community magazine that the purpose of this dinner was to deter thieves and other criminals, and to demonstrate the power of the masses. My husband and daughter unanimously asked me to make fried rice, saying that many neighbors were waiting. So this year, I still make Chinese fried rice. My husband took care of the tadpoles, and my daughter and I went to line up to eat first, and when we saw that the fried rice was about to be eaten soon, I only served one spoonful. Later, when my husband went, it was gone. He said, "It's okay, I can eat it at home a lot." I'm so proud that your fried rice is so popular! By the way, Lao Mei is really lazy in cooking! They often buy some microwave food or canned food, and just heat it up, or 2 slices of bread and 2 slices of ham meat, and then spread some sauce on it, or a bag of popcorn or a bag of potato chips is a meal. My daughter is sometimes invited to dinner by children, and that's it. How can we Chinese be so hardworking and spend so much effort on cooking. My daughter's children love my cooking. (To be continued.) )