Third Time is the Charm!

Our homeowner’s association has an annual meeting each Memorial Day Weekend to elect new officers to the board of directors. Tim threw his name in the hat for the 3rd time and was aligned with 2 others in a campaign to take a majority vote on the board. They did it! Following the election, the neighborhood was plastered with smiley faces. This picture above is the kiosk at the entrance to our neighborhood.

This same weekend, we hit it again with another rental of the concrete saw. Luckily we were reimbursed for the first go-around. Unfortunately and despite Tim stating that he wanted to be sure that there was a new blade on the saw, they still had him leave with a blade that couldn’t finish the job for us again. It meant a trip to Traverse City, 45-minutes each way and the price of a 2 pack of blades. Only one blade was needed to complete the concrete removal. The other goes online to be sold. Once again reimbursed for the saw rental. So really we are only out the one blade we used!

Since cutting concrete is a job for only one person, I did some cooking and threw the ball for pooches in between soothing a tired, hot and dusty Tim.

This week we did it up! I ran to Carlson’s in Fishtown for fresh whitefish. I prepared it in a small foil pan with butter, garlic, capers and dill. We covered it with foil and took it back to our site to cook over the fire.