What a weekend

We are home again and what a weekend. If anything could go wrong it

did on Friday and early Saturday. Friday afternoon we arrived in Talmoon ready to work. I drove to Marcel to Rent a auger attachment for my John Deere 250 skid steer. I needed this to drill the holes for our deck footings. This was supposed to speed up the process by saving me from hand digging these. When we started every thing was going great and me and Leo were drilling holes like mad dogs. When I got a little more then half done a boom & splat occur ed. One of the Hydraulic lines exploded and sprayed the front of the cabin with hydraulic fluid. What a mess. Now I lost all of the hydraulics on my machine so I couldn't even move the tractor plus I had to scrub down all of the cedar siding to get the fluid off of the house. Well I called the rental place and according to the rental agreement the renter is responsible for fixing any blown lines. Great I thought now what the @#$#@@@@! am I supposed to do. Well they told me the John Deere dealer in Grand Rapids could fix the part. So Saturday morning I cruised over to find that the idiot that was supposed to open the place never showed up so they weren't open. Now what was I to do. Well I went to just about every store in Grand Rapids until finally I found a hole in the wall place that could fix the part. THANK GOD!!! Now we have the part we need but by this time half of the day went by already. I also still remembered to get more hydraulic fluid. Well any ways we went back and I repaired the auger and then we actually finished the job. I have posted a small video clip of us drilling a hole. The rest of the weekend went very well. Me and the boys poured all of the concrete footings for the deck and actually had enough concrete. The next day Me and Leo just about finished the Hardy plank siding. Just a little more left to do. Hopefully by the end of August the siding, deck, and stone work will be complete. Other then this We also had some fun on the lake. Me Harry and Leo took out the boat for a midnight Cruz and went swimming out in the middle of the lake at night. this was pretty fun for all of us. We also did some skiing and knee boarding during the day time hours. All in all we ended the weekend on a good note. And look forward to havein next weekend off because Vincent is getting baptised at St. Andrews on Sunday.