Back from a weekend of rafting!

Tom & Deb joined Gerald & I for a double upper Gauley White Water Rafting adventure. The last time I went was two years ago with Tom & Jim.

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The food was awesome, the weather was perfect, the company was pun-tiful, Tom was the only one to go floating, and Jackie was a great guide!


Oh, yeah, the White Water Rafting on the Gauley was top notch as well!

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Off grid supplies have arrived

Dad called to say that Bob has delivered all the expected supplies, and that solar panels are now hanging from the tractor shed.
Still a lot of assembly to go!

Finished that weatherizing window trim

Just in time to leave town for WWR in WV in the morning!

Day at Dad's

His garage door was installed today, after which we completed all the sheeting inside. Ready for the solar hardware!

We started the day in the house, where we got the downstairs bathroom paneling at least half up, then stripped the hall ceiling, ready for tile to be installed.

From what I understand, the hall, bath and entry room ceilings along with the remainder of the bath and entry paneling need to be completed before we are allowed to start on the flooring. Then comes appliances, toilet and carpet. Seems SOOO close!

Block wall assembled

Fri Sep 11 07:35:04 EDT 2009

Another Bridge walk year -- and fun in the park!

Rachel and I joined about 49,000 people walking over the Mackinaw Bridge, then spent the afternoon at Thunder Falls. As we were too busy having fun, neither of us was being a shutter bug, so we don't have pictures of the gigantic body slide (how did she talk me into going that high?) or the climbing tower.

Wood cutting day

Got Rachel to try out Gerald's chainsaw.
She had a pretty big grin on her face!

2 days at Dad's

We finished the peak, insulated the shed and got enough OSB on to have the 7'x7' overhead door installed this coming week.



We also ripped out the original 3' high north retaining wall and replaced it with a 6' high beefier wall on Saturday.

Of course, with 2 blocks to go, a Universal joint failed on the skid-steer, giving Gerald something to work on while the rest of us continued working on the shed:

At the end of the day and all blocks installed that we had:

There are more blocks on the way to complete the wall.