Our adult children recognize our project capabilities, and Jon and Katherine had two they hoped we’d be able and willing to tackle during our stay. No problem! The first involved removing a broken playroom window and closing the hole it left in the wall. The boys accidentally broke the window when the handle on the…
We took a four-day trip back to Green Valley, so we could finish what was left undone from our first visit back in June (Please refer to our earlier blog, Brother Rus’ Projects – Green Valley, AZ). As a reminder, we had converted Rus’ carport into an enclosed garage; however, we now had to refloat,…
Over the winter, we planned to visit my brother in Arizona and stay long enough to complete the conversion of his carport into a garage. He retired and moved to Green Valley two years ago and has been wanting this conversion since that time. We chose to camp at Mission View Communities RV Resort, which…
We visited Michael, Sarah, Samantha, and Happy for three weeks over the 2022/23 Christmas and New Year Holidays. As always, they greeted us with a well-thoughtout project list of 42 items. We didn’t complete the list, but with Michael’s help during his vacation time, we knocked out much of it. Some were simple and hardly…
We usually help our niece Vanessa (Larry and Susie’s youngest) when we’re staying in the DFW area. She recognizes and appreciates what our capabilities are and doesn’t hesitate in coming up with things for us to do. Her dining room light has never been centered over her table. We have all known this and been…
Coincidental to our arrival in Carrollton, TX for the winter, our condo tenants moved out a week afterward. Our new property manager, Millicent Roberts-Reagins, had alerted us in advance, and we agreed to do all needed repairs and some upgrades. Our tenants had been two men, and while there was no unexpected damage beyond normal…
In late June and early July, we spent 3 weeks in Lake City, MN doing projects for our good friends Tony and Georgia Zugay. We also helped their daughter and her husband, Dawn and Tony Mendoza, with projects at their house in St. Paul, MN. It stood to reason we should also offer our help…
Tony Zugay let us know that his oldest daughter Dawn and husband Tony Mendoza could probably use our help. So when we coordinated our visit to Lake City, we also contacted Dawn and planned to spend the following week in St. Paul to help them out as well. Unfortunately, our plan didn’t quite unfold as…
Lake City (population 5,063) sits on the south side of Lake Pepin, where 100 years ago Ralph Samuelson invented the sport of water skiing. After some trial and error, both in making the skis and developing the technique for rising out of the water on them, the 18-year old Samuelson, while being pulled behind a…
In early 2021, we were invited to the wedding of Jonny Gomez, youngest brother of CJ and Michael, and Ailys Toledo, his long time girlfriend (at least as long as we’ve been a part of the extended family). The date was 5 February 2022, and we looked forward to attending the big celebration. We even…
