Wednesday, May 06, 2009

No new well......but our first boat ride of 2009

Sorry it has been awhile since my last update. We have been so busy getting ready for the Memorial weekend Party. It takes a lot to get the cabin in tip top shape to greet our guest.

First let me say that Pam is doing wonderful. When and saw her on Saturday and she wasn't totally her sassy self, but it was slowly starting to merge out. Her surgery went fine but they had to do it the old fashion way and cut her open to get the 6 golf ball sized stones out of her. She will be getting her staples out on Friday.

Secondly, we have no well. The jack ass we hired to do it, didn't seem to understand the phrase "We need to schedule for you to drill the well the week of April 27th because Joel is on vacation". The fool showed up Thursday morning to look around and said he was going to go back to Cameron to get his drilling equipment and that he could only drill the hole and not complete it until the following week or after. We tried to explain to the ass jack that we have guests coming and it needed to be done by Memorial weekend. He could guarantee it would be done. So needless to say, I told him to shove it up his butt and that he could drill it the first week in July while we were on vacation again.......that is almost 3 months notice, I hope that is enough time!

Thirdly, as you can see by the pictures, the boat is in and Lilly had her first boat ride. She did very well and I think she will make a wonderful first mate to Captain Zoey.

And last but not least, the shower house is on the road to being complete. Joel & Steve have done a fabulous job so far. Before we left on Sunday, we hired a drywall contractor, Bob to mud and tape all the sheet rock. Both Joel & Steve are good at lot of things, but mudding & taping is not one of them. So that should be completed by the time we arrive at the lake tomorrow. Then we can start painting and Steve can start adding his touch to the walls.

One final note, Big Joe almost lost his beloved Maxx yesterday, but thank goodness someone was waiting over him. Maxx had a 10:00 vet appt to get his nails clipped, heart worm and flea/tick shot. While Big Joe was sitting in the waiting room petting him, he felt a lump (size of a golf ball) under his neck. When he was in the room with vet Bi Joe asked the vet to check it. Vet decided to take Maxx in the back room and draw some of the fluid out and biopsy it. Well, all the vet could get was blood and fatty tissue. So they decided he would need to go under general anesthesia to get the biopsy. So later that afternoon the vet was doing the minor surgery and apparently this lump had it’s own blood supply and she couldn’t get it to stop bleeding. She had to keep her finger on the hole to try to get it to stop bleeding. Maxx almost bleed to death if it weren’t for a University of MN surgeon that happened to be at the vet clinic. He hopped in and removed the entire lump and patched Maxx up. Basically saved his life! After the fact, this lump was wrapped around his carotid artery and mostly likely would have killed him within a short time had it gone unnoticed. Anyways the funny thing is…..Maxx goes in for a nail trim and it ends up costing Big Joe $1400! Not funny at the time…but funny now. So Maxx just got out of the hospital this late morning and Big Joe, Maxx and Zoey went to the lake so Maxx could recuperate. Maybe Maxx should go recuperate with Pam….LOL. Tomorrow Lilly is getting spayed, so she will be down for the count until at least Sunday.


So this has been one heck of a busy week and we are looking forward to heading up to the lake again tomorrow. We also have guests coming on Saturday to hang out with us for the evening, Twila (Joel W works with Twila) and her husband, Joel. Humm.....that is going to confusing my husband Joel and Twila's husband Joel. Maybe we'd better come up with a nick name of two, After a night of drinking, I'm sure we will have that taken care of.

UPDATE: I screwed up or Joel communicated the wrong information.....It wasn't this weekend that Twila & her husband Joel were coming up......My Bad!

Anyways......check back often and check back soon.

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