Our New Home Pt 2

Let me continue and see if this goes any better. The gentleman running the Bobcat in the previous post is Ron Lillie. He is an Army friend through Amanda and Julius. While he was deployed his kids became our surrogate grandchildren. As a matter of fact, they came to meet us at the airport one time and when we were making the boat trip last year we visited them near Mobile, AL. Ron will finally be medically discharged from the Army at the end of the month and will be able to get back with his family. Ron was here to help build the deck over Memorial Day weekend. He put in over 24 hours during the 3 days running the equipment. Without his help, we would never have gotten this far with the project. Thanks again Ron. Anyway, here is the finished product.

Notice how that it is a pretty good distance to the neighbors house over the hot tub. Also notice the two white tables over the flower pots. The moose got one again last Saturday morning. The moose was on the deck. Our bedroom is the window closest to this end of the deck. You can also see how well the grass has come in and what the moose did to our flowers.

The deck and grass project was finished by the end of June. We began the month of July bringing Ron back out to the house to help me build Jude's Yarn Shop. We built an 8x14 foot for her yarn and knitting supplies. This project went faster and better than the deck as you can see in the following pictures.


Also here are a couple of pictures from around the house. Looking out the back, our lot goes half way to the street/tree line on the other side of the gravel pit. The gravel pit itself gets limited use. We have seen the owner takes gravel out only once this summer. The white chairs are at the campfire pit. The building is my workshop.

As Labor Day weekend is almost upon us, Ron is happy that we are out of projects and that he is heading home. Jude and I will be working putting people on the ships on Friday and we will be working in the Hotel on Monday putting people on their flights home. The birch trees have a yellow tint beginning to show as summer is beginning to come to a close.

I hope this gives you a little insight as to where we live.

Rob