Week 16

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So on to our week!

We had a surprise call from the realtor Monday morning saying a guy was going to come look at the property sometime that day. Well that resulted in a 2 hour frenzied clean up! Just because of the painting and stuff going on the yard and beach were a bit messy, but we got it looking nice in time :)  The guy said he really liked it but we haven't heard anything else.

The rest of the week Joel worked on on hammering all the boards on the lodge's south side that had pulled away where we could see outside.

He also worked on painting the rest of the blue we had left on the first level under the deck, and when he ran out he did the trim. He got to fishing a couple times too and we ended up with a nice meal of snapper :) 

Thursday we got to go to our friends house for the day. It was so fun to go somewhere different. Joel went to work on a backhoe but Sage and I got to enjoy ourselves all day!  We hadn't been up the river before, it's really cool, check out that color:

Sage even had fun on the boat:

 Joel worked on this backhoe all day and it's finally up and running. They had to take the whole thing apart, as in pull it in half, to get at the parts they needed to.To add to the fun after they installed the clutch it didn't work the shop that worked on it adjusted it all the way in to work on it without informing them. So after they put the whole tractor back together they had to start all over just to adjust a few screws out on the clutch. On the upside they were good at it by then and almost got it apart and back together before dark. Our friends were able to finish the rest on their own in a short time a day or two later. 

We had a lot of rain the end of this week, we're glad to have all the tanks full before it quits raining altogether. 

We enjoyed a nice visit from some other friends yesterday for a few hours, it's so nice to have people here that care about us :)

We've had an invasion of large red ants this week too, they only come out at night and they're a lot like the army ants and we're still trying to find out where they're coming from. That and the rat, hopefully we'll pick up a rat trap this week and get rid of that problem.  

Hope you all have a wonderful week!