Cottage Update

While the rest of his family stays home to play hockey and attend birthday parties, Rob heads north every weekend to work on the cottage. Most weekends he is joined by his parents and cousin Mike. (Mike and Kira's cottage is being raised and a whole addition is being added below - very cool!)

Two weekends ago, Rob and his folks filled in most of the trenching for the geothermal pipe that comes from the lake into the cottage. This entailed Rob filling the contractor's little workhorse machines with sand, driving it over to the pipe and dumping it for his mom and dad to shovel and fill the pipe and trench.
Here's Leah on one of the little machines that Rob used:


Rob also started to install the wiring



The contractors assembled the garage pretty quickly. There will be a long narrow room above the garage that the kids are looking forward to using as a big noisy play room.







This weekend Rob and his folks were joined by family friend Vic Povilaitis. Going on 80, this man kept everyone hopping. He's a concrete guru and worked with the boys pouring a cement pad above the cold room. He and Irma also dug out the area in front of the basement windows and installed the window wells. They also covered the rest of the geothermal pipe. Rob came home with the biggest grin on his face - it was a very productive weekend.