Derby day weekend

Another family filled weekend. It was Derby Day on Saturday; the marinas were full and the bars/restaurants were booming. Seemed like a mid-summer weekend after a few back-to-back slow ones. We finally go the weather we have all been waiting for...

Friday evening Bonnie took to the girls to see the sunset from the west side of the island. This is an awesome photo. Notice the perfect flying seagull heading towards to the setting sun!

Picturesque sunset - nice photo Bon! 

Saturday, Bonnie packed up the kid crew, went downtown for a bit and then hit the beach. Below is a shot of the ladies all hanging out having fun.

Bon, Anna, Lily and Sophie

Bonnie surprisingly was able to talk the girls into doing some shopping around town while she stayed behind and relaxed at Dockers.

Bon at Docker's enjoying the sites

Next on the agenda was beach time. It was a warm beautiful day, but the Lake was still very cold. It didn't discourage this crew from enjoying the island beach.

Anna and Lily

 Sophie

lil Neil

After the beach, while I was wrapping my work around the cottage, Bonnie convinced Anna (and Lily) to babysit Neil and Sophie while we hit the town for some official adult Derby Day time. 

 Me and Bon

Saturday night, Capt. Ron hosted a barn party for the pay-per-view fight that evening. We brought pulled pork and chili and met-up with the neighbors. Here is a photo of Anna on the tractor.

Anna on Capt. Ron's tractor

I did complete a few outside projects including building a nice fire pit with natural island stone and a firewood rack on the back of the shed. The back side of the shed has been a mess and just piled high with crap for several years now. So, I finally took the time to permanently clean-up it up.

Fire pit and firewood rack

Although the grass planted last fall is coming in fairly well, there are many bare spots or just missing grass completely large spots. So... Chris rented a gas-powered slit seeder to re-seed all the adjacent neighboring properties. This behemoth machine, was like a wide heavy push mower that scrapes the soil and drops seed as you go along. This was a pain in my azz pushing this thing around the yard. Anyway, hopefully we get a little rain and we'll see some more grass fill-in!

Another job I have been postponing, was the extension of the door jam in the master bathroom door way. This was framed with 2x6 (not 2x4 standard) and made the standard door kit 2 1/2 inches short all the way around the opening. I used some primed 2 1/2 inch trim wood, cut it to size, shimmed it up and nailed it in. Then I cut and hung standard door casing. To finish it off, I just need to fill-in the cracks and nail holes and paint. The extra deep door opening is kinda goofy, but this was all I really do to made it look decent.

 Master bathroom door jam

Next weekend, Uncle Al and his crew are coming up for an all boys weekend. Not too sure how much work we will get done. I may try to do some more trim before they all arrive in full force.