Veterans Day

Happy Veteran's Day. Dennis went to breakfast this morning at Hy-Vee, because they were offering free breakfast to all Veterans. I didn't go since Zach had spent the night and didn't wake up until about 8 AM. Zach and I made cookies again, and he rode his motorcycle. It was 33 degrees when he went out to ride, and the puddles on the ground were iced over. Nevertheless, he rode for almost an hour. When he came in, we had eggs, hash browns, sausage and bacon. After eating we played Trouble before he left to go skating with his friend.
This afternoon, Dennis went out to tear out more of the old fence, and worked at cleaning up the area where he is thinking he'd like to put a new building. This little shed has been used for many things. We bought it at an auction way back in '82 and Dennis dragged it home on skids. It served as a playhouse for the boys and then we used it for bottle calves, hogs, and most recently a doghouse. Today it was consumed by fire! It was still a decent little building, but of no use to us. The skids that were used more than twenty years ago had rotted away, so there was really no good way to move it to a different location, so the firebug torched it.
I stayed out there with a rake to make sure the fire didn't spread and was amazed at how quickly it burned! I told Dennis that there must be about a hundred pounds of nails in that pile of ashes.