Saturday, September 22, 2007

A new life for the A-frame









Terry and Elery bought a beautiful piece of property on Lake June a few years back with the intention to build their retirement home here. The property came with this little uninhabitable one-bedroom A-frame that housed many creatures, never had A/C and smelled really strange. The first thing they did was build a beautiful dock and create a sandy beach, which we all enjoy regularly. A frequent question by visitors and family was, "when are you going to knock down that house?" Somehow it just never happened and the timing isn't right for building a home on the property....so the little stinky A-frame is being renovated to a humble cottage. We'll keep you posted on its progress, who knows...maybe you'll be staying there!

Happy 44th Anniversary!




Today we celebrated Terry and Elery's 44th wedding anniversary.....the original plan was to go out to dinner somewhere in Sebring. The more we thought about it the more we thought there might be a better plan....We thought maybe a lobster boil here at the house, but found it difficult and pricey to get live lobsters here. Next thought, lets just fry up some chicken wings and when Terry and Elery get here to gather for our big dinner we'll surprise them with a gift card to Red Lobster for just the two of them, and tell them to return for dessert and a champagne toast. Perfect evening for all, the kids could be kids, Kenny cooked dinner, and we all enjoyed a lemon-champagne punch and Elery's favorite, cheesecake with cherries on top.....

It's not even October yet....



We have two new residents on our back porch....a bat and a black cat. The bat lives in our umbrella and the black cat is trying to move in. He has already bitten each of the twins and makes our other cats "fuzz up" at the mere sight of it....the twins are so scared of it that they run in the house when seeing it and make me "lock door mama...mean black cat...", and Halloween isn't for another month....