Dean flew back out to Michigan right after we closed on the cabin. June 10. I had a few things, like unpacking from the cabin, and some financial things related to the closing that I had to take care of. I Flew out on June 16. To be honest, this was one of the hardest months we have experienced.
It seemed like everything was going great, until we started seeing what this renovation was really going to take. The house was in much worse shape than we thought. Time to make this decision a good decision....and that is going to take a ton of work.
One of the first things Dean did when he got to Michigan was buying this beauty of a truck!
We took off the blue siding, only to find yellow siding underneath...and rotten plywood underneath the yellow siding.
On Father's Day, Mike and Amanda and their kids, and Min and Mary and their kids all came out to play in the lake. Times like this are why we bought this property!
We took off the roof, which was always part of our plan. While we had the roof off, we had crazy rains. Our neighbors assured us that this was not normal for this area! On June 26, out of nowhere came a huge storm...right after Dean had shot himself with the nail gun! While we were in the Emergency room, there was a tornado warning for our township! We knew we had piles of plywood piled on top of our house, and we hurried and covered up the house with a tarp before we went to the ER. We had no idea if that was going to be enough, or if our plywood would be blown all over the neighborhood. That was a horrible day.
We tried to pull the nail out of Dean's hand. We couldn't get it to budge.
Because it was in so deep, they did X-rays, and then sent us home. We expected to hear from them, but we heard nothing. Dean can move his thumb, so we are assuming everything was ok in the x-ray.
We got home a couple hours later to find everything fine at our house.
We ended up needing to stay at Amanda's house much longer than we had planned. Snuggling the kids in the mornings is amazing, but we needed to give Mike and Amanda back their house, and their privacy. They have been awesome to make us feel welcome.
The reason we bough a house in Michigan is so we could be close to some of our "Grands". Even though things were not going as planned on our house, being by Amanda's family has been great! We got to watch swim meets and soccer games, take walks & talks with Nora ( which may be one of my most favorite things ever!), and just hang out with the Francis family.
We often get people stopping by to see what us old people are up to. One couple, Janine and Jeff, stopped by on June 29, and asked us about the house. They were super nice, and seemed really interested in our project.
The next morning, Janine came by again. She told us they were going out of town for the 10 days, and wanted to know if we wanted to stay in their house so we didn't have to drive back and forth to Amanda's! She had known us for less than 12 hours, and offered us her house to stay in! We were so discouraged, that this act of kindness was huge for us at this time!
She did ask us to feed her cats and let them out in the mornings.
This is Fern and Pumpkin, our housemates for the next 10 days.
We ended June feeling very grateful for kind people.
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