Another one bites the dust

The tree cutter came for the Jeep truck today all prepared with a car trailer and additional help.  The truck had sat so long that the right front brake had rusted to the point where the wheel wouldn't turn.  They jacked up the truck and removed the wheel and began to pound on the brake drum with a sledge hammer.  It took them 30 minutes of pounding and prying to get the drum off the truck.  After all that they put the wheel back on and were ready to go.  Not quite!  When they lowered it from the jack the truck rolled back into the woods.  Minor glitch.

The driver of the truck was a 6th grader who could barely see over the steering wheel.  That didn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling being that there just a small space to back the pickup truck in by our porch on the cabin.  He managed to get it in there with outside help from his father.  Interesting!!

Eventually that extracted the truck and pulled it out onto the road in front of the cabin.  Loading it on the car trailer wasn't a piece of cake but they finally were ready to roll.  He came up and thanked me for the business and said to call him again if I needed any more trees cut.  Gerry wanted to get a picture of the Jeep leaving the area and had to hustle down there to capture this final shot of the the Jeep.   Maybe one day we will see it being driven down the road by the 6th grader again, but I think he will be a lot older before they get it road ready.  Good luck guys.

Cassie, Jack & Lexa came over for a ham, continental potatoes and squash dinner and it was enjoyed by all.  I mixed up some margaritas and we made it into a little party.  Later we played the game of Catch Phrase for a couple hours.  Friends Gloria & Doug introduced us to the game last winter and it is a fun game.  Lexa especially enjoyed the game and didn't want to quit, but three of us were so tired she had to hang it up. 

A clarification on this posting.  The tree cutter came to take down some dead trees that were threatening to fall on the cabin.  While here he noticed the Jeep and was interested in acquiring it, so I traded him the Jeep for cutting down a large dead tree.

Electrician Showed up

The electrician showed up today and put in about 5 hours of work.  He got a lot accomplished and should finish up the work in two more work days/evenings.  We are looking forward to having adequate power to the RV so we can use a/c on these warm days.

Kenny & Peggy showed up today to retrieve their Jeep from the cabin.  Kenny bought it from Larry Jr. and intends to rebuild it and restore it back to new condition.  I think he has a lot of work ahead of hime since it is badly rusted and needs a ton of work on it.  The Jeep is a Scrambler Jeep and there weren't many of them produced so it could wind up being valuable if he restores it.

I managed to find a tree trimmer/cutter person today and he said he would come up and check out what work we need to be done.  There are a couple dead trees close to the cabin and also a couple live trees too close to the cabin and where we park the motorhome.  The dead trees have to go one way or the other.  

Man, this has been a fun summer so far.  I hope we can get through it before the money runs out.