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Weekend Photos

Dad working on sailboat 1

Dad working on sailboat 2We often like to head out for the weekend and spend a couple of days at the lake.  It was a short trip as we couldn’t leave until Saturday morning and we had to head out Sunday at 2 PM.  Still, it was worth it.  Mom made us some fantastic food.  I helped Dad work on the sailboat.  It is coming along well.  He has put a lot of work into fixing it.  The boat was seriously damanged in a storm a few years ago.  He thinks we are almost ready to get the boat back into the water.
Katie in front of the treehouse You can also see our progress on the new tree house.  Katie was standing in front of it just before we got in the car to come back to Houston and I snapped a couple of photos.  We started building this treehouse last year using a lot of the leftover wood from the old pier we took down.  That wood went into the “platform” that is attached to four trees.  The “house” sits on top of the platform.  The house framing is done.  The roof is decked and covered with tarpaper.  We put up enough siding to give the walls some stability.  It should be done in time for our kid to start playing in it.
Mule Dogs It’s fun to get out of the city and let the dogs run, play, fetch, and drive the mule.  The mule is kind of like a small pickup truck.  It could also be described as a golf cart on steriods since it has 4-wheel drive and can launch boats.  Any time we fire up the mule, the dogs all compete for who gets to ride shotgun.  It’s normally pretty cute, unless the winning dog just got out of the lake.  Then you’re just trying to drive while keeping a stinky wet dog from crawling all over you.
Posted by Ben on Monday, October 6, 2008, at 7:35 am. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , . Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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  1. Heather Teichgraeber | October 6, 2008 at 3:11 pm | Permalink

    I love the picture of the dogs and the “mule.” I took Ellie out to Robin’s place a couple of weeks ago and she loved running after me while I was driving the golf cart. It wore her out. I am not sure how she would do driving “shotgun.” I will have to give it a try! :)

  2. rc | October 7, 2008 at 2:35 am | Permalink

    I’m thinking that boat should be re-christened “Ninth…” or “Twelfth Wind”. It’s second wind came and went back in the eighties. Will she be seaworthy in a couple weeks? Can’t wait to see you all….

  3. Ben | October 7, 2008 at 6:52 am | Permalink

    We finished the rudder assembly over the weekend. The pictures are of dad working on mounting the new split stern rails. We still need to re-mount the mast, but that wasn’t damaged in the storm so all should be good there.

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