The Perfect Day

Mary Kay and I ventured north for Memorial Day weekend. I had been up the weekend prior with my brother Al and what a difference a week can make. A week ago we had frost on Sunday morning. This trip we had temps in the 80's and the bugs were awakening from their slumber.

This weekends plans were to screen in our porch that we built last March. As usual, the truck was packed with supplies. To screen the porch we framed the openings with 2x2 cedar. Then we made our own screen frames with heavy duty extruded aluminum. We used black aluminum screen and splines to complete the project. The main porch screens are 80"x42". The came out great ... not perfect mind you, but well within our tolerances. The black colored screen blends in and is nearly invisible.

Sunday turned out to be a "Perfect Day". We completed our screened in porch .. DONE! We then unwrapped our paddle boards to take them on their maiden voyage. You'll see we were donning our life jackets expecting some pretty cold water if we fell into the lake. After a short trip on the lake with Minnie as our paddle board Captain we decided it was war
m enough to attempt a swim. To our she-grins the water was warm! We floated in the lake and laid in the warm sun on our boards to dry off. 

The day flew by and before you knew it was Happy Hour! Mary Kay decided it was due time to put her feet up and use that porch that she has worked so hard to build. Since I cannot sit still (nor read), I decided to try my luck at fishing. Minnie was torn ... stay with Mkay or go with Mark, stay with Mkay or go with Mark ... she decided to stay. For a golden, it is pure torture to have to choose between your peeps. In the end, Mkay had to listen to her whining on the porch and I missed my ballast in the canoe ... but we all survived.

My happy hour in the canoe was interrupted by a nice trout. My first out of the lake. We added the trout to our walleye for dinner which was fantastic!

All in all ... it was simply ... a Perfect Day!

We are almost ready for our electrical rough in inspection. Plumbing supply lines and vents are also nearly complete with the drains remaining. If we are not careful we'll be able to insulate the walls soon! We've purchased our complete PV solar system from Wholesale Solar and we are working on the off grid installation. We're installing a 2.6kW solar system that should support all of our conservative electrical needs. For those interested ... we're installing a 4000W Magnum Inverter, Midnight Classic charge controller, 9 - 290 watt SolarWorld panels mounted on a ground mount. We'll have 8 Crown 6-volt 430Ah batteries to supply our power. The batteries will be installed in a custom made battery enclosure that has a 24v DC powered exhaust vent.

Enjoy!

M&M

Next time maybe Mark can take a few photos to include Mkay!!