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The Weekend and the Week(s) Ahead

As always we had a busy weekend. Michelle took Friday off and started on the updating of Brendan's bedroom.  She started to paint the room and I put in his new light after I got.  I also started on laundry.  Saturday morning came early and Michelle and Brendan headed for Clio for the Clio cleanup.  The church participates every year and the kids from the church that help out get $10 in quarters at church camp for the arcade.  They get pizza after working for lunch also.  Brendan then went to Kids Storm at the Bible Baptist Church with grandma.

I stayed home and waited for Sears to show up and work on the wood chipper.  They got here close to 12:00pm.  We thought we blew the engine on it.  The repairman worked on it and it is running again.  Good thing we got the extended warranty!  This is going to help us get the yard cleaned up.  Speaking of the I worked in the yard and then we headed to Clio.

We went to the Black Horse Tavern for a benefit dinner for the Clio Rotary Club.  Michelle participated in the silent auction and did very good!  We got home and mom came and got Brendan to stay the night at her house.  MacKenzie also stayed there.  They were going to church with them and then to the final day of Kids Storm.  Michelle and I got to bed early.
 
We seen this guy by Dairy Queen.
 

We had a nice breakfast Sunday morning and then went to church.  We went to Dairy Queen after church and used a coupon that Michelle won in the silent auction the night before. 

We then went to Menards and bought some perennials and strawberry plants.  After getting home Michelle worked for a while in Brendan's room and I worked outside again.  I got more of the yard cleaned up and some more old wood burned.  We want to get all the brush from my old house cleaned up so we can set up the pool this year.  Michelle came out and we got the plants in the ground.

I need to pull the deck off the lawn tractor, pull and replace the blades.  Hoping to cut the lawn for the first time on Friday.  Want things to look good for Mothers Day.

While at work on Friday Michelle texted me to ask if I ordered something from China?  I had and it came really early.
This was waiting for me when I got home.
 
This is a carbon fat bike fork that will go on the Farley.  The geometry is the same as the Salsa Makawa and should be a perfect light weight fork for the bike.  Hopefully I can get it installed this week and the tires changed out for training.
 
JJ and I will be starting our Ore to Shore training this week also.
 
Next post will either be on the Farley upgrade or Mothers Day. Stay tuned.




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