We are now a 4 Season Cabin

Joel's vacation is all complete and he is back to work like the rest of us poor folk.......but he got a shit load done.

The furnace & central air was finally completed on Thursday, so we are officially a 4 season house. Just because the title is there, doesn't mean that the Waage's are ready for their first winter at the lake.......but we are getting there slow but surely.

Big Joe picked me up from work at 2:15 pm on Friday, so we could make a bee line to get to the lake because Jonathan was going to playing in his first pep band as a Chetek Bulldog and I wanted to be there. So we pull up into the driveway & there stands my beloved son with 4 cheerleaders! huh..... So off he goes to toot his horn. The Bulldogs lost :( but my son sounded fabulous. I am so proud of him. While that was all going on Joel & Steve were moving the water pipes in the basement to prepare for Wayde & Shelley to come in the morning to scope out the possiblity of putting some step inside the house going to the basement. Later Pam & I drove over to Jeanie & Chris's house. Irene (my adopted Kensey mom), Chris, Jeanie & Suzie were sitting around a bon fire. Pam was going to be borrowing Suzie's car for the weekend to get to work.

Saturday we had to have Jonathan at the high school by 4:30 am.......yes, I said 4:30 am because they were taking a school bus down to Madison to play at the Badger game. Once again, he had a blast and was home by 7:00 pm but he was a little tuckered out. But not so tuckered that he & Daniel couldn't make a trip up to Rice Lake to hang out for awhile. While Jonathan was gone for the whole day, we had to get to our business at hand of getting the house ready for winter. Wayde & Shelley came up from O'Neill Creek to check out our ideas for adding steps into the basement. As always, Wayde comes to the recue and came up with a fabulous idea. So November 13th & 14th, with Wayde leading the pack........we are getting steps. Woo Hoo!! We are going to lose the guest bedroom (sorry everyone :( but we still have the futon, air mattress or floor) & trying removing the wall between the guest bedroom & livingroom to open up the space. Also at some point be adding a office area on the bathroom wall. After Wayde & Shelley left to go back to attend Oktoberfest, Joel & Big Joe continued to work on building walls, insulating and sheet rocking the basement. They only have 1 more wall to go and they are done. Boy does that make a difference......it actually is warm down there.

Sunday was more of the same.......work, work & work. We had absolutely beautiful weather, but didn't take the opportunity to hit the water on the pontoon or jet ski at all. It will all pay off in the future. Pam & Steve stopped over in the afternoon & stayed to send Joel, Lilly & me back to South St Paul later in the evening after I fixed Jonathan dinner. He needed to be at marching band practive by 6:45pm. They are down to the wire in preparation for the show at homecoming this Friday.

Love you all.....

Chetek Back Often......Chetek Back Soon

Joel, Amy & Jonathan