August
To say my husband is allergic to poision ivy is an understatement. he is one of those lucky folks who can have a leaf blow by and it is all over him like a tick on a June bug. So we waded around in the stuff for two days and snipped and clipped. Stephen brought his tractor and trailer to help out and Timothy hopped on it and ripped and roared so we came away with one mostly cleaned up patch of land and one rash covered man.
We discovered the downed tree from the 2004 ice storm was way bigger than we could move and would need cut up. Lots of scrap metal parts and just trash of every kind littered the place. What was once a car wash and was now just an uneven piece of concrete with jagged pieces of metel protruding covered a good bit of the back side of the building. It began to rain or were those tears? The two youngest arrived just in the nick of time to serve us Chicken Express sort of like a 30 mile meals on wheels. It felt good to see the talents of these men as they tore into cleaning the place up.
Wet, dirty and wornout the guys group photo says it all. But we can now see the front porch thanks to their efforts. Left to right Will, Bill (husband), Mike, Steve and Tim. God bless them all.
Inside I swept up dirt and rat leavings. We set traps and hauled off trash. It was a very productive weekend because of so many helping hands.
We decided we needed electricity and after taking stock of the restroom fixtures which were all broken, that water was not going to happen for a while.
On the way home we stopped and visited Nanny and Popa to share what was happening at the store and just check in on them as well.
Because of the generosity of Stephens Boss we had equipment to deal with the years of vegetation and large pieces of sheet metal.
