This weekend is looking like it will be quite busy. There will be a neighborhood garage sale on Friday and Saturday to start things off. Then, on Saturday, the guy that helps Granpa Milo keep up his house and grounds, Cayatano, will bring over a whole pickup load of trees Grandpa Milo got for us (for free). We will not be able to use them all, so we will give the ones we do not use to our neighbors. Cayatano will plan our trees for us. Hopefully, he will be able to come back in the next month or so to put in our fence for us, too. Dad was able to get a bunch of redwood boards for building it at a cheap price.
Kelly and Christian got all their homeschool work finished yesterday before I got home. We are really starting to finish things up now, so they will have less to do every day between now and the end of the school year on May 27. Last night, we went through only the multiplication flash cards with which Christian is struggling. It is mostly the eights, sevens, and sixes. We did them ten times. I believe that once he gets those under control, we will be able to get through the deck in less than two minutes for each side which is the overall goal. I imagine we will get all this done within a month or two after the beginning of the school year next year.
I downloaded the software to run the CNC router that should be getting here before too long. One of the first things we want to do is to make a Lone Star shaped rosette for Texas. Here is an image of how the surface of the rosette should appear when we finally get the machine to make it:
Ron is meeting with our big customer today with the hope that we can negotiate a long term contract to produce MDF rosettes for them and possibly grow the number of rosettes we are producing by helping them move into new markets. A contract of a couple of years would certainly allow us to do some things we cannot do right now because we are not sure how long the orders will keep arriving. It will allow us to get additional equipment to go after new markets with less risk.