Back home again



A foggy morning looking down at the lake.

Back at the Lake House and the work never ends. If it isn’t regular car maintenance IE: oil changes, exhaust replacement, electrical issues, then it’s house troubles. I had planned to walk a small section of the Appalachian Trail on the way home but Anna called the day before I left saying that the well pump had given out and they had no water in the house and that the garage door had also broken in the up position. So, back to Michigan I drove only to find that if she had moved the shovel out from in front of the electric eye, the garage door it would have opened fine. The pump was another story. It took a new pressure switch to make things right in that department.

I came out of the garage and found this large snapping turtle laying eggs in the garden! It had wedged it’s head and one foot in-between the tines of the flower holder so, I moved the holder and left her to her work. In about 6 weeks we just might have little snapping turtles running around the yard.

I had to tunnel under the walkway.

As far as the house goes, I dug a 45 foot trench in front of the house and laid in a new drain pipe for the area between the garage and the house (it collects water there and the old drain pipe was less than useless). Then it was on to the barn. Even though I have a 30 x 40 barn it’s getting crowded in there. So I’ve built a 150 sq ft mezzanine to store stuff on for as we all know, we always have ‘stuff’ that needs to be stored.

This is the "good" side of the tanks, the bottom's are much worse.

I have an old (seems like everything I have is old) Ford truck that had both of its fuel tanks rust out. The last time I used it I found that I could only put 3 gals of gas into one of the tanks before it would start to leak! Not a good thing! So, After ordering 2 new tanks, I spent a day fighting rust as I replaced the tanks. YUCK! The only good thing to say about the job is that it’s done. Toss in a bunch of work for others (hey, when there’s a maintenance man around people tend to ask for help) and I’ve yet to have a day off since I got here. Hope to change that situation around soon. Hope that your summer is going better than mine. Drop me a line and tell me what’s happening with you this summer.