More Work Needed

We stayed pretty busy the next few days.  We got the truck unloaded of course, but we still had a lot of projects to do while we had the help.  My son Jeremy wanted to learn a bit about repairs while he was here, we had already done a lot of them and I think he was a little disappointed.  There was a lot of work going on during the days, but we would relax at night and got to visit.  I am not sure who all did what at that time.  We had to go pick up the last section of the butcherblock countertop for the kitchen from Lumber Liquidators, Mark wanted to finish up more of the plumbing issues, we wanted to run network wires to the room that we wanted to use as an office, we had a gazebo we really wanted put up...and so much more that we still are not finished with everything today.

The boys really had a hard time drilling into the cement to attach the posts for the gazebo, and went through a ton of bits trying to get it done. There were many trips made to the hardware store trying to find enough of the right kind of bit to get it done.  We love sitting outside when it is nice outside and Crew and I knew it would be hard for the two of us to erect the gazebo by ourselves.  There was also a break in the fence by the cement pad and we needed to fix it so that Kensie could go out and not have to worry about all the dogs that were running free out here.

The boys putting up the gazebo on the 20'x20' cement pad behind the house

Our gazebo is pretty big, but one of these days we know it will need to be replaced...we would like to have a barbecue island out here on the pad and a solid structure to sit under to keep the rain off.  We have lived through a Summer out here now, the Mosquitos are terrible so it will need to be screened in if we want to stop wearing so much bug spray.  We had some black iron fencing that we used as a temporary fix to get out to the gazebo, it just sticks in the ground with stakes, but we had it around the gazebo at the Dallas house to keep the dogs off the porch...this was to keep Kensie in...and hopefully other dogs out.

The gazebo after it was completed and the fence was up...and we took care of the grass.