More of trip #5 and mo-ho repairs

Down by the beach under the parking lot next to the dunes there was a buried creek. A few years ago, it was apparently leaking and during a storm collapsed, taking a good chunk of the parking lot. Fortunately it was off season and there were no cars parked there. So they basically dug a channel and patched up what was left of the parking area and barricaded it off. Well, thanks to the stimulus money, they are working on a permanent solution.

This massive chanel with flood gates and fancy fencing. In the pic below you can see something going across the gate area. That will be the walk that was part of the 'beach trail'. It snakes from the parking lot through the dunes, back to the campground. It will be a much shorter walk than the road to the campground. This project was suppose to be completed by July, but it looks like quite a bit of work still to go. It'll be interesting to see if it's finished when we go back on September. It made for quite a traffic nightmare going to and from the beach.

And they did bury a small section using massive culverts so beach goers can use the other side of the beach.

And in a section of the wall along the channel where some of the seed netting has fallen, some type of swallows have made nests. That's all those little holes in the bank. I wonder if they'll let them finish the season before repairing the netting.

Yesterday, I cleaned the Salon, then washed the bug guts off the mo-ho front. Cleaned the inside up for another trip later this month, and then washed off the back deck. The birds have finally left the nest, and did they leave a mess! Bird crap all over the place! Glad that's all done with, although, they were fun to watch.

We've also decided to take the mo-ho in to finally get that hydraulic jack fixed, replaced, or whatever. The last 2 trips, it would not come up on it's own, and now I can't even pry it up! I had to resort to using a hydraulic jack we use when we change the tires on the car. That literally pushes the jack up. Craig's worried it might at some point not even go up with that, and then we'd really be stuck since you can't drive the mo-ho with the jacks down. Just another expense you didn't plan on! Oh well. That jack hasn't worked right since we bought the mo-ho, and will be nice to having it work normally. I hope.

Well, now it's time to get ready for another work week!

trip #5

Good morning.
It was a beautiful Independence Day weekend! Upper 80's, sunshine, and good friends. We were joined at the campground by Tom and Dean, our camping friends from Wisconsin.
Since they arrived a day earlier then us, Tom made us a welcome dinner of tater tot casserole on Friday after we arrived. We spent the rest of the afternoon catching up on each others lives. With the distance between us, we only see each other once or twice a year.

Our campsite with Tom and Dean across the way.

After catching up, it was down to the beach, where local communities teamed up with the DNR to do fireworks. They had a barge out in the lake they shot the fireworks from. It was a good show with thousands of people there to watch. But being by the lake as it got dark, the temps quickly dropped. We weren't dressed for that and it was a cold long walk back to the campground as the beach trail is still closed. On Saturday, Dean fixed a delicious breakfast of omelets, toast and sausage links. After hanging out and enjoying the weather, we decided to go up to the Four Winds casino 20 some miles north of the campground just across the Michigan border. It's a much nicer casino than the Blue Chip and Tom and Dean hadn't been there yet. Well, as our apparent tradition continued, they lost money, and we walked out $7 ahead. So we took them to the Texas Corral for steak dinners. Then back to the campground for movie night. Sunday had us repeating breakfast since it was so good the day before, and Dean loves to cook. Then it was down to the beach for sun, sand, and scenery. Here's a pic I took of my early Sunday morning bike ride while everyone was still sleeping. The beach was deserted. Not even the clean-up crews were out yet.

And here's a couple of pics of the beach as we were leaving around 1pm.

For those of you who don't live near the great lakes. They look just like oceans. And fortunately, we have no oil wells.

Then back to the campground to shower to remove the suntan lotion and sweat. It was a hot weekend with temps around 90.

For dinner, I cooked some pork cutlets, Dean grilled corn, and we added some store bought potato salad and macaroni salad.

Then another movie night since it was way to hot for a campfire.

Monday morning, we broke down the camp, said our goodbyes, since they were staying one more day, and made it back home safely without any 'incidences'.

It was a good trip

Yep! we are on our way back from another trip!
I fill you in on the details later.

daylillies

The crazy week is over, and now a long holiday weekend. Hope everyone is having a good time. We sure are!
Here's a few of my nearly 50 varieties of daylillies that are beginning to bloom.

Have a great 4th!

washer/dryer update

Good morning.
Yesterday was exhausting! I arrived at work at 7:15am. I needed to get the old washer/dryer out of the back room before the new one arrived. When we put it in 13 years ago, we kind of built it in. It when in the corner at an angle and we added shelves and cabinets on both sides. So I needed to disassemble them to get the old washer out and give them enough room to get the new one in which we were told would arrive between 4 and 8pm. Then I had 22 customers starting at 9am straight through till 7:30pm.
They arrived with the washer/dryer at 7pm and took nearly an hour getting it in place and hooked up. I checked it out when they were done and discovered it wasn't in the corner right. The electric cord that came with it was only 3ft and not long enough . Where the washer/dryer was would not allow me to reassemble the shelves and cabinets. I asked if they make longer cords and he said yes. I asked if he could check the old one they were hauling away to see if it would be longer. He checked and yes it was. He removed it from the old one and gave it to me and left. Can you believe he wouldn't even put it on for me? I was to tired from the long day to bother with it, so now I need to go in early today to swap the cords, get the room put back together, and get some towels done before I start again with customers. Thank god it's a short work day, and a long holiday weekend.
I'm gonna need some rest!
And now, off I go!