Today On The Mississippi

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Mandy: Okay, so Mom said I have a great shadow. What do you guys think? She is so weird but as you can see I *did* manage to sneak my nose into the photo. Anyway, on to some of the gardens and other scenes around the river here where we are living right now.

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Of course, as mentioned yesterday, there is always a golf cart or two in view.

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It is sunny, warm and very, very humid out right now. It didn’t start out sunny, it was really raining this morning with thunder, so a little bit of a storm passed through.

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The Bluebird house above is actually inhabited by Bluebirds!

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This is one of the well cared for gardens I was mentioning yesterday. Some really beautiful lots out here, especially those right on the river.

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The one below usually has a big Class A RV sitting there, but they have taken off on some sort of trip.

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Always just beautifully kept up though.  You can see a big wooden piece in the front. That is stairs with a big handrail.  That goes up next to the RV’s door to create a nice little pouch. They push it away when the leave to go somewhere else. You can see their shed, lawn furniture and beautiful bushes are awaiting their return.

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We had some folks take off from the cove here on a fully loaded down canoe for a trip down the Mississippi River.  Looks like fun, I hope they have safe travels!

It’s looking a bit gray outside again, the river looks like it is running pretty fast, must be due to the rain. We will probably be getting more rain.

Have a Wild Wet Wednesday!

House – Aug. 1, 2018

So this will actually be photos from yesterday evening, however, today we went for the Electrical Walk-through, but I didn’t really take photos.  We added quite a few changes today, which is what the meeting was for. Now, in about a week’s time, they should be able to tell us when we will be closing and moving into the house.

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Just getting Mandy’s ‘paw of approval’. She likes going with us when we go. I am always afraid she will cut her paw on something, so when I am not walking her…I kind of scout for where she is putting her feet regardless.  Let’s just say I ‘mention’ it a lot. 🙂

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You can see the duct work is pretty well done, a lot of the electrical was in, and they were working on that still this morning.

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Furnace.

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Air exchanger. (or whatever that is called). Gas lines…. so on and so forth.  It is all really starting to take shape.