The Gavin/Owen project...

First let me say that this is the life. I'm tan. I have a cold beverage in my hand. I'm resting in a king size bed in a bedroom with more square footage than some entire homes and...wait for it...I have a decent wireless signal so I can blog for you! In bed. with a cocktail. blogging. Seriously...it's brilliant. Brilliant.

Day 4 for us out of 10. And today is when I tell you about the Gavin/Owen project. When you get down to the bottom of the long, long stairs that take you to our private beach here, there is this little river of water that also trickles down the bluff to the lake. Last year Alex and Owen (and I think Chris and Kevin) built a dam to 'shore up' this waterflow. Well this year is like that, only on steroids.

Owen and Gavin have worked for 3 straight days, building wall after wall to make this water move the way they want it to, but never actually letting it get to the lake. They started close to the lake...that is "wall number 1" - a few feet back, closer to the bluff is "wall number 2" and so on, and so on. I think there are 8 walls in all. They work diligently, have "sheduled break times" for playing in the lake....and when they return? HIGH DRAMA! "We have a break in number 6! Water is getting through! Emergency! Emergency!" And they work to patch the break and block the water.

Once they came back from a break and there were several breaches in their very own panama canal...Gavin was working to repair wall number 3 while Owen was pushing the water back. Owen yelled "hurry up, Gavin, I'm giving you as much time as I can, but I don't know how much longer I can push the water back!!"

Then another wall broke down...Owen called for backup "Gavin, come quick, I need help!" Gavin's response? "I've got problems of my own!!"

It's all VERY serious...very dramatic and yells of "Hurry, hurry, this is a MAJOR break!" could be heard all day, every day....which cracks us up. I took some pictures, but haven't checked to see if I have my handy-dandy USB card reader thingy (yes, that's what it said on the packaging) so I can upload them for you. I'll try...but I am, ahem...on vacation. This is a phrase I have to choke out, as my husband says it over and over. Whenever I need him to do something..."honey, can you..." I'm on vacation! I hope Julie's laughing right now because it was the same thing he said over and over again last year.

The Janet has been cooking her ass off. Monday night we had lasagna, last night it was some chicken/artichoke/water chestnut concoction with garlic green beans and salad ... tonight we had kabobs and garlic bread and peach cobbler. Ummmmm, yeah...can you all see my ass getting larger? Between the food and the booze I'm damn glad there are 50 million stairs to get to and from the beach. I can use the exercise!

The family leaves in the morning. Most of them will be missed, but that's a long story for another day. It's been a good beginning. I'm tanning out from my earlier burn and tomorrow the other Kevin Crum comes with his wife and they're supposed to be bringing me wine from California. Hopefully they're bringing reds...because as you know, here in MI...we're all out.