T Stands for 4 Days of Craziness

   Hi everyone. Happy new week to you. And hello to everyone who stops by Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog this week for T day.

   I have to tell you that I am exhausted today. The past weekend was  fun 😊 but very busy. It's always that way over the July 4th weekend as it's the big family holiday in my husband's family.  Plus, there was a deck to build at my mother-in-law's house, so before the holiday we took a couple of  trips up to the lake to bring up the lumber and tools that were going to be needed since my husband was the one in charge of the project.

  Not that going to the lake for 4 days straight is a bad thing, especially in the summer. 😉 ❤ Especially when it's hot.  

   And I also want to mention that if I haven't been by your blog for a few days, my time has been pretty filled up for the last few days. I'm working on catching up, but I wouldn't be surprised if I still missed a few people. 😟 I apologize if it was you.

  For T day this week let me share a few photos from the last 4 days of craziness. Warning, this is a bit of a long post.

   I'll start with  the deck project. This was the guys big July 4th project. They'd started planning this back when they put in the  dock a few weeks back. The deck  frame was still in good shape, but it needed to be lifted up, leveled and then new deck boards  screwed down. 

   Below are the 4 guys at work. Starting at the guy in the blue shirt at the right who is my husband, going clockwise is then my husband's sister's husband, one of their son-in-laws, and also my son-in-law.  The sister-in-law's other son-in-law refused to  help, and that wasn't the smartest move since it not only disappointed everyone, but didn't make anyone, especially the guys, really happy with him.  

    Most of the deck was finished on the 4th, but a little bit needed to be finished on the 5th. However, enough of the dock was completed so you can see my daughter explaining something to her aunt. Also in the photo is my son-in-law and  then smiling at me, my husband.

   The young guys were gone the night of July 4th, but my husband and his brother-in-law finished off the dock on Sunday the fifth.

   This finished dock photo was taken by my husband, and ha ha, I just noticed you can see me off on the other end of deck with a book in hand reading.

     For those of you who are not excited by construction, here are some other views.  I'll start with some photos for those of you who like sky views. The sun through the clouds was beautiful at one point.

    I can't forget the dogs either. On the 4th, Maddie went for a swim and then found the most central location on the dock to relax all day. I'm sure this was part of her plan because it required everyone going by her to stop and give her a pat.

    The construction and all the commotion was making Pete a little bit nervous so he was my shadow all day on  the 4th.

   The niece's little one (Jack, he's 1 1/2) was fascinated by bubbles.  At one point it was also a fun photo play time for me.

   And Jack wasn't the only little one during the day. Mama Merganser and her 5 little ones came by. But I had seen 6 on another day. Then, after a few minutes, we heard a little peep-peep-peep as number 6 came quickly paddling along.

    I'm glad she didn't lose one of her babies. 👍Also speaking of birds, a couple of loons came in pretty close to shore on Sunday afternoon when the lake was much quieter.

   We didn't do much exciting for food. Just hot dogs and hamburgers.  For dessert my husband and I picked up this huge tray of cupcakes at Sam's Club (it's closer than Costco). Luckily there were enough people tempted to eat them that we only brought home a couple.

  I can''t forget my drink photos either.   Here's the 2 nieces with little Jack. Mom's in the blue hat, and his aunt in the green one.  Auntie Ally is holding a drink also, but I'm not sure what she was drinking. 

   I remembered to snap one photo of my drink also. This was actually on the 5th when we went back up so the 2 guys could finish the deck, and we all could do some cleaning up. During the summer weeks are assigned to each of the siblings, my husband and his 2 sisters. One of his sisters wasn't around on the fourth (which was actually nice because she's rather difficult for various reasons), but this is her week to use the house so we definitely needed to clean up after the construction and people traipsing through the house.

   I think that covers the gist of the 4 days before and during the holiday weekend so I'll wish everyone a happy T day and week ahead.