Lots of news

 I got an update from Sandy Krafft about their house in St. Pete Beach, "We are very busy arranging repairs. All the new floors are being installed, but unfortunately we have to rip out the lower half of every wall.  We will have a team starting next week.  The pool area needs new screening, and the list goes on.  It's a tremendous amount of work and mess, but we are okay and realizing despite it all, we are better than many."  Isn't that just like her?  I also have learned that all of their landscaping is history.

Marchelle and Aaron's septic system is moving along and should be up and running by next week.  There was a week setback when the company making the septic tank made a mistake, and they had to make another one.   We walked over this morning to see the status - Aaron, Marchelle, and Rainee are in California visiting family - and we had a good talk with Nathan.  He was there from before eight o'clock this morning until six o'clock tonight.  We also saw Bumper on the road before 9:00 as he was heading in for a day's work.

One big honking piece of equipment

Nathan was the person who went over to Barb and Steve's to plug a 1/2 inch leak they found in a pipe carrying water into their house.  Steve had been trying to figure out why their water pressure had lessened, and when he went searching, he found a waterfall coming from a broken pipe.  Nathan took over one of the backhoes from Marchelle and Aaron's to fix it.  It looks like maybe we need Bumper and Nathan on speed dial.

Tomorrow afternoon, a group of geology students from Fort Lewis College in Durango are coming up with their professor to look at rocks on Veenstras' Trail, with Becky and Mark's permission.  Mike will be their trail guide so they don't wander around aimlessly.  I'm guessing at some point, they'll be on Steve Lankenau's property, as he has some great rocks, too.