Family Happenings this week

Today I'll catch up on Family events for the week.

Wednesday Carol, Lois, Jim and I caught up with sister-in-law Bev and nephew Jonathan up from Texas on their way to visit home in Stockholm, ME. We met up at Capt. Newick's Seafood restaurant. It was Jonathan's birthday and he had his first lobster.

Today Carol and I went up to visit Mom. It had been planned that my brothers, sisters and I would paint Mom's garage but it was raining like cats and dogs so that activity has been postponed. Brother Dennis was there anyway because he was going to rebuild Mom's front door steps and this was the only day available for quite sometime, so finding him on his own I pitched in to assist. Dennis' wife had suggested using a couple of canopys they had for some cover over the work area. We still got wet but no where near as bad as it could have been.

Dennis on the left and me to the right.

A couple of early stages of the project.

Sister Kathy stopped by and Mom comes out
in the rain to inspect the completed steps.

Dennis and I, ready to call it a day

Dennis had come to Mom's a few days before with a rented jackhammer and busted up the brick and mortar steps, then when he arrived this morning wheelbarrowed those remains away to a neighbors gully to be used as fill, he did a great job putting this together - considering that he builds houses for a living this wasn't much of a stretch. I was glad I could help, in spite of the rain I thought it was great fun.