Monday Monday June 22

Well we are in Kalamazoo this week getting my radiation treatment which if everything is  working well only takes 30 minutes today they had a machine break down and the wait was much longer but still a nice wait.  When I go  there I see many people that are much worse then me which kind of makes me feel a little guilty but most people continue to have positive attitude's so in the long run the experience is over all up lifting.  Also my treatments do not have an effect on me in the short run and I hope that they have a correct effect on that last node which is active. 

 

When you have a family cottage and small kids no matter how rough it is it can get a lot of use and its a good family time for the kids to remember.  from my last few cottage entries most of you realize that the cottage was very rough but we had water and a functional bathroom and many bugs and mice which we tyred to not pay attention to.  The problems start when the kids get older and your time is tied up running the kids from activity to activity so then the cottage gets less attention with very little upkeep.  So we get to point where our kids have small kids and we show up at the cottage after not going there for a few years and you discover a roof that a tree was growing over and had worked a hole through the roof and around the side walls which were continually under water in the spring and fall had rotted away about 6 to 8 inches so an attack was needed and Garett and I spent two weekends rebuilding the lower part of the walls on 2 sides and a rough roof patch with out the electric frying pan (see below for electric frying pan story) which seemed like hard work but it held for the winter.  In the spring I mentioned a week end at the cottage and I was informed that Sharen would not spend another moment in the cottage with small animals  running through the walls.  So we had to decide what to do with the cottage and I found a sleazy contractor and he put poles around the existing cottage and added a roof over the outside of the poles ,.which I called repairing the roof of course the new roof was over 6 feet over the old roof.  The plan was to fix the siding the next year by placing walls on the outside of the polls.  To be continued maybe.   

 

To help understand my work ethic when I was younger when the family went to the cottage we always had a project lined up to accomplish for the week end.  So every one was up by nine or ten then Mom would start making breakfast which was Bacon sandwiches and any kind of egg and we would be about ready to start the project of the weekend by 10:30 or so and we would get a fair start on the project but at 12:00 Mom would pull out the old electric frying pan and have to start lunch.  I am not sure why this would cause a halt to the work but that act meant we would stop working until lunch was complete with a nap afterwords and back to work by 3:30 or so and the work seemed to have a low stress level also not much would get done during the weekend.

 

Please continue to keep us in your prayers and may God continue to Bless us all.