FREE TRACTOR RIDES!

Last weekend was Father's Day. I think Willem had a great day. The girls and I got him a couple of adirondack chairs to put around the pool or wherever. He got breakfast in bed then we headed off to church and then my parent's place for lunch. Mom made lunch and afterwards I expected to just mill around and relax. Apparently the men that my dad and Willem are wouldn't allow them to just sit still. They moved furniture, a new bed into our spare room and then Dad got all ready to cut grass. Apparently he had been itching to get on our tractor and do some cutting. I think he was feeling nostalgic about when he was a boy growing up on his family's farm. Far be it from me to stand between a man and his desire to cut OUR grass on Father's Day or any day for that matter. We all ended up getting involved. Below are a couple of pics of Daddy riding our IH.

Anyways that whole "Dad wanting to ride the tractor thing" got me thinking. If any of you out there want to "ride" the tractor. We are giving free tractor rides every weekend! They last about two hours long and you go in circles until the grass is all cut down!

We have this enormous slab on the side of our house. I say enormous, it's about 20 feet by 18 feet or so. It used to be a little house. Anyways it's too big to break up easily and dispose of and it's too big to ignore. And it's very close to the house so we're unsure what we will do with it. In the meantime we have decided to make good use of it. We put our above ground pool on it and it fits perfectly with enough area to sit and chill. Not permanent, but until we can afford to get someone out here to bust it up it'll be home to our swimming hole.

For those of you who are wondering how our bathroom reno is going here is an update. We needed to bust up the concrete in order to relocate a toilet and to move the shower drain into place. It was a pretty daunting task but it ended up being not that bad. Willem cut with a concrete blade on his circular saw to try to score the concrete. He then tried busting it with a sledge hammer. He finally decided to rent a jackhammer and it was smooth sailing after that.

We got the drains in place, plumbed up and concrete is now curing downstairs over what was a huge gaping hole. During the week we hope to finish all the plumbing and get sheet rock up so that we can begin floating the walls and tiling the ground. We're still shooting for it to be finished by July 6 but my guess is we'll be lucky if it's operational. Keep your fingers crossed.

That's it for now. I'll leave ya with a couple more pics of bathroom demo and that pic of the tree house i've been meaning to put up. Hope all of you dads had a great Father's Day!