Jul 22

Thursday July 22

Making our way through another week!  A short work week for me.   We made it to Door County on Saturday.  The trip went fine,  the people on our site stayed to the very last minute!  But that is their right.   So after 3pm we made it on our site and set up.  The same for Enders.   And it was good to be there, it has been so many years it feels like home.  We enjoy the park,  the restaurants, the stores, and being with good friends.  And this year a whole group of us are next to each other.  From us Enders and Sporer across the way, Pindel and Miller on either side.

I came back to work Tuesday morning.  Drove direct to work from Door County.   I am saving some vacation days for later in the year.  So work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,  and leave from work Thursday to head to Door County.   Then I will have a long weekend and do it again next week.   Work has been very busy, which is good overall.   It makes for a lot to try to get done, especially since I have other things I want to get done!  I had a call from our concrete contractor that he had an opening and wanted to do our work on Wednesday.  So got home from work Tuesday and back to my ‘excavation’.   I wanted to dig out a lot of the decorative stone we had in so it could be used again.   That is the top layer, and we had screenings below that then dirt.  The contractors machinery tend to mix it all up.  So Tuesday night I got my work out in finishing the work.   Wednesday morning they showed up on time and went right to work.   We are doing a new entrance walkway coming into the breezeway, then by the grill a long patio area and walkway back to the woodpile.   It will be much easier to shovel in the winter!   And cut down on the gravel we track in.   They worked hard all day and were finishing up around 4:30, and came back later and put a sealer coat on.   It looks great.   I took lot’s of pictures I was going to put up,  but my camera must have defaulted back to a high pixel count and the site won’t let me upload them.  Craig I never wrote down the software you recommended for downsizing the pictures! (check that looks like it is now letting me one at a time, check some pictures in albums!)  Next week I will start working on putting ground and stone to edge it.

Good News on Mary Jane.  She is with us in Door.  She wanted to make her 25 year reunion at her grade school on Saturday (yes 25) and made the drive.  She is very tired of the sore throat but otherwise seems to be much better.  Unfortunately John could not make the trip.  He was released from the hospital last Friday night.   Still has some morphine and anti biotics in his system,  sounds like his elbow is much better and every day better.  Hopefully that is continuing.

So I was lucky enough to be able to work from home yesterday, it was a very busy day and I worked late after the contractors left.  So need to get going to work (It is 5:30 am) so I can leave as early as possible today (good luck).   All last night our cable was down and could not get to this, or a few other things.  Unfortunately is sounds like another rainy day is back.  It looks like the storms are already moving out of Minneapolis into Wisconsin and could get more storms this afternoon.   Sorry Sue, that sounds terrible,  I hope my ‘waves’ did not wash into the house last week.   And hope the road does not flood again.   I am hoping for our campers that this wave of storms stays south and leaves Door County alone.  Although the next couple of days  the chance of rain continues.  I have a golf game around noon tomorrow I hope to get in!

So everyone try to stay dry and enjoy!

I did look out at the sunrise and ran out.  Red sky at night sailors delight,  red sky in the morning sailor take warning.

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4 Responses to “Thursday July 22”

  1. sue yell says:

    Rick and I walk the dog at 5:15AM every morning and yes the sunrise was spectacular. Have a good time in Door County and say Hi to Mary and Chris for me.
    Sue

  2. Darren says:

    The concrete work looks fantastic. We really enjoyed seeing (and golfing with) you in Door County. I’m going to think about how tasty that bratwurst was between holes 9 and 10 for another year. Hopefully we can go back and do it again next year.

  3. Allen says:

    Ditto on Darren’s concrete comment, looking forward to trying it out! Meanwhile, enjoying your company, and our other good friends, here in Peninsula. That MN rain hasn’t been enough to dampen our camaraderie or the making of another year’s worth of great memories.

  4. Andria says:

    The photograph is beautiful. Craig says to use to Free-Picture-Resize-Starter on your pictures. We are busy packing up the house for our move to Austin. Save some vacation days to come visit us! I loved seeing you guys at the wedding. We are working on the beer website, hope you can give us some feedback, soon.

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