Forth of July Weekend

I am back from the cottage and things went well with the family. We got a lot done and there still is a lot more to be done. Ugh! My brother had the bright idea of renting the cottage out for a week so all the work has to be done by the end of July, which it won’t be. It will be livable; the downstairs walls are not painted or taped, but up stairs will be pretty much done.
So you are all wondering what it looks like, before (I dug that picture from mid-eighties), during and after (The dock in the foreground was added a good number of years ago.) we raised it up to add a basement. It was suppose to be a small project to get rid of the moister from the crawl space under the cottage but it turned into a major project ( Why don’t we add a rec room $Cha Ching$, Why don’t’ we add some more bedrooms $Cha Ching$.........).




This weekend the weather was beautiful and we ate our meals out on the deck, something we couldn’t do before because the deck was too small ( The deck was another “Oh since have to have stairs why don’t we make the deck bigger, $Cha Ching$ ). While we were having our breakfast this morning a pontoon plane took off ( Somebody down the other end of the lake has one. ) and when it landed about twenty minutes later it flew right over our heads at tree top level.