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Lakeside Addition 1 – Tree Removal
The day finally arrived for work on the addition to begin. The biggest events of the day were the removal of two trees by Tim Nabors of Superior Tree Service. This man’s skills are awe inspiring.
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Brian’s nonsensical ravings
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Lakeside Addition – Site Preparation
We had a lot of homework to do on the site before work on the addition could begin.
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Lakeside Addition – Preliminaries
Before we started on the addition, we expanded the kitchen by taking out a wall and building in-wall pantry storage shelves.
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Lakeside Addition – The Plan
The Lake Becky house needs a number of improvements. Rather than piecemeal them together, we decided to hire a contractor to make them and build an addition with a large studio, and master suite.
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Road Trip September-October 2020 Day 2
First thing this morning, we visited the Shiloh Civil War Battlefield, then made our way to the Mississippi north of Memphis and crossed over into the toe of Missouri. In the afternoon, we made our way up from the Mississippi valley into the Ozark Mountains.
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Road Trip September-October 2020 Day 3
Today we drove through the Ozark Mountains to Hannibal, MO – boyhood home of Mark Twain.
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Road Trip September-October 2020 Day 4
Northeast Missouri to the banks of the Missouri River in northeast Nebraska with a short zig into southwest Iowa.
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Road Trip September-October 2020 Day 5
From the Missouri River to Rapid City via Badlands National Park. We were unable to visit the Wounded Knee Memorial due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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Road Trip September – October 2020 Day 23
The final day of our trip. After a short walk along the Cascades Trail, we made our way home via the Blue Ridge Parkway
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Road Trip September-October 2020 Day 22
After a pleasant stay with our old friend John in Roanoke, we pointed the rig along the Blue Ridge Parkway, but didn’t quite make it home.