Happy Mother's Day??

It was a busy and somewhat strange weekend at the Red House ....

Friday was the MS play ... the kids did a very nice job and since there was only one cast this year we had things partially torn down and were home by about 9:00 on Friday night.  Saturday was full of errands and jobs -- grocery shopping, taking the junk to town for "dump day", tearing down the play set, hauling it home and putting it away, running to the pool store for chemicals -- fun stuff!

Saturday night we started noticing something strange going on with the electricity in the house.  The stove (clock) kept going off and on, and our bedroom would intermittently not have power, but the rest of the house would be fine.  We're so thankful we have an electrician dad .... Bruce drove up Sunday morning to try to fix it, but in the end it turned out it was a Consumer's Power issue ...

 Thanks so much to this guy who wasn't able to spend the afternoon with his mom, but came out and chopped up our tree (sad to see part of another tree go, but he said probably the entire tree should come down at some point or we may find it on our garage ...)  Seems there was a wire that had been rubbing against that tree for quite some time and it broke, so every time the wind blew on Saturday it was bumping the broken wire causing parts of the house to lose power.

Glad that's been fixed, but it did throw a wrench in how I got things like laundry done.  :-/

The second load of pool water still hadn't shown up by the end of Sunday, so Monday morning I called to be sure they hadn't forgotten .... nope, they hadn't, but I guess the milk hauling business has issues right now, so they didn't have any spare trucks and they didn't even think they would be able to get out with the second load until May 20th .... YIKES.  They were able to give me the name and phone number of someone else that might be able to get me some water, and not only were they able to, they even managed to bring it out on Monday night!  Only about 6-7 more inches of water needed and the pool will be ready to swim in.  We'll put those last few inches in with the hose bit-by-bit.  So happy "The Water Boys" from Hemlock were able to help us out (even if the water did cost more, LOL)  The boys are ready to go swimming so I really hope the sun starts shining and the temps go up so they can get in and splash around!

Hope you all have a great week.  It's a busy one here ... MS Band Concert on Tuesday, track meet on Wednesday, a funeral (my Uncle Steve) and the HS Band Concert on Thursday, and I have to work BOTH Saturday and Sunday (I am not looking forward to this, but am trying to look on the bright side .... one weekend is completely shot, not two!!).  We are planning to go camping the following weekend, so we are just plugging away knowing a bit of fun and relaxation is around the corner!

Love,
~Kati

Almost there ....

David was really impressed this guy backed all the way in the driveway ... the other water people just backed in the trail and ran hoses from out there ...

Come on mother nature ... bring on the heat!!

Exciting things happening here at the red house ... another item on our spring maintenance list was taken care of today.  We woke up to rain this morning and cold, so I was a little surprised the pool people showed up, but they did.

Sometimes you have to make things look worse before they look better (although if I'd have included a picture of the pool before they took the old liner out, you'd say this was an improvement ... it was gross!!)

New liner and 1st load of water went in today.  The water guy will be back with another load sometime this week.  I think I'm going to LOVE the new patterned liner, it's very pretty and makes the water look REALLY blue!!

And, so far, the project has come in under budget, so we may look at replacing the deck boards on that top section of decking.  We'd like to put composite decking up there ... that area of the deck gets a lot of exposure to water, so it really takes a beating.  I used that new "Deck Over" stain on it last year, and I'm not impressed ... I also don't like how it looks.  It was worth a try, but I think the boards are still in need of replacement with something that can withstand the water better.

Now, we just need some sunshine and warmer temperatures so we can start swimming.  We've never opened our pool this early in the season, so come on sunshine .... I want to use the pool vs. look at it.

Hope all is well with everyone.  

Talk to you soon!

~Kati