The insulation was installed today. I thought it might be a 2 day job, but Mario from Broken Drum Insulation had the job finished in just a few hours. Toby called before 3p to let me know I could schedule the required inspection. I called the inspector, but his voicemail said that he was on vacation until Monday, 3 Aug. The nerve! I’ve waited this long, I guess another couple of days won’t make much of a difference.
Below are some pictures of the whiteness in the walls.
Enjoy!
So beautiful – great weather and hardly anyone on the lake.
Max and me
Cousins Nate and Alex and Max
Matt and Lucy
Cousins Emily and Nate
Auntie Katie and Uncle Rich
Yaya and Cousin Alex
Happy Boaters with Poppa
Thanks to Uncle Jeff and Auntie Jan for letting us enjoy the boat and cabin!
Cousin Abby-Sue and Pop
Lucy loved going fast in the tube!
Yes, our 63 year old Pop can still shore-start at water skiing!
I am learning what every homeowner already knows. You are never really done working on your home. In November, I thought that we had finished with the construction upstairs. These past 6 months have been easy living in our completely finished upstairs.
However, you can see by the picture below that we now have the beginnings of a new wall separating the area where our bed lives from the other area of the bedroom. Kevin S. was on site on Saturday and built this wall for us in record time. I had 3 jobs for him to do (including the wall), and he got all of it done before lunch. Man that guy is fast.
I am still in the process of pulling network / computer / tv cables down stairs. When that is done insulation goes in. When insulation passes inspection, then drywall goes up. After drywall passes inspection then floors, doors and trim go in. I am hoping for a 1st week of August start for the drywall.
Today we cleaned up the cabin and headed out. A big thanks goes out to the Bernards families (Jr. and Sr.) for their generosity in allowing our big family to use the cabin and the boat.
After we left the cabin, we went after a geocache. Success! (even through Lucy’s whining). Then we stopped at the Hungry Hut and experienced the truism that Jeff had said earlier in the trip. “Its not that great, but it is the one in town”. The kids had ordered chicken strips and they were raw more than half way through. Who can say ‘salmonella’? The supervising lady was also kind of brusque. “Its not that great, but it is the one in town”. So true.
We stopped in Bakersfield for a McDonald’s break. I whipped out the GPS to see if there were any close caches. One was across a parking lot less than 500 feet away. Toby and Lucy gave up about half way due to the heat. They waited in the shade of a parking lot tree while Max and I soldiered on. Success!
Home in the evening and with the kids helping it was easy to unpack the car. A great long weekend.
Jeff had to leave early today, so we began to use the boat right away. We only had the single, double booted ski to use so I couldn’t shore start like I prefer. After I ski’d, Jan ski’d, because she wanted to say she still could. Poppa didn’t want to be left out, so he decided to try. He also prefers to shore start, and decided that he just wouldn’t use the back boot. Using lots of binding slime, he squeezed his foot into the boot and yelled ‘Hit it!’ He successfully skii’d with only one foot in the binding. Congratulations!
Camp was cleaned up and we were off the lake by 2p. After naps, we drove to McKinley Grove to see the giant redwood sequoia trees. Those trees are huge. It took 10 of us holding hands to encircle a medium sized tree. Rich, Katie, Alex, Max and I were in the car together, so we decided to stop for a few geocaches along our way back. We stopped for ones that were within a few hundred feet of the road we were driving on. Rich is really good at following the device. He was the first to spot 2 of them. We were 3 for 3 on this run. Alex really seemed to like it.
That night, Poppa and YaYa presented separated the boys and the girls for some special time. The girls did some fingernail painting together (Lucy has little red flowers on her thumbs). The boys all got small flashlights with shadow covers (to make shapes in the light).
Poppa took the boys (and me) out for a night walk with their new flashlights. We stopped at the water tower (which looks like it is brand new) and Nathan climbed up the ladder on the side. But there was the ladder gate about 8 feet up, so Nathan couldn’t go any farther. Alex climbed up and was working his way through the cage when he decided there might be an alarm and he didn’t want to go to ‘Juvenile’. Max scurried on up and slipped right through the cage. He went to the top of the ladder and let us know that there was a roof on the top of the tank.