Friday, yesterday was a super work day here at out house. At 7:30 A.M. LeRoy Brown arrived with 30 tons of sand for our driveway and road. He brought a front loader along and as they dropped the sand he spread it down the length of our drive. We shoveled and raked our way through it to make it nice and smooth. Boy, did we work! We love the finished product!
We managed to have a little afternoon time left to wash our new truck and wax it. This is Mardi Gras weekend here on the island so we needed to have a clean truck to go out Friday evening. Dinner this year was at Pirates Point Resort with a live band for dancing following. They really have good bands here and everyone gets on the "floor" to have a good time to the beat!! We had a good group of friends to celebrate with and the food was spectacular. We got home late!
Saturday weather was perfect to work on some little outside projects and sit on the beach. After lunch Richard announced ISU was playing a game that we should watch at Iggy's. We decided to do that and immediately got a call from Mike and Linda. The parade for Mardi Gras started at 4:00 and they asked us to do a float with them. They have a perfect vehicle for the MASH movie/show and Linda is an artist. She transformed their SUV and we came up with costumes with materials on hand. Boy! We had fun! I made crutches out of brooms and foam, towels wrapped around arms and legs were casts. Heads were bandaged and blood was spray painted on us. I carried an IV pole made of a water bottle and rope and old broom handle. Mike was the doctor chasing after "hot lips" from the show. We had the music playing from the show. FUN FUN FUN! We won second place in the residence float category and first place in the group category. The theme of our Mardi Gras this year was Hollywood. There was a big Casablanca float, a Wizard of Oz float and a Bollywood float. The Hitchcock float was awesome. Needless to say, we didn't watch the game! ISU won anyway!
I made a late supper of tacos and we are both tired and going to bed early. Tomorrow will be another big day I am sure.
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| Trucks and sand arrive. |
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| I'm barefoot'n in the sand while I work! |
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| Finished product! |
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| Our lovely entrance. That big bamboo pole on the left will be the site of my new sign! |
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| Richard and I with Linda and Mike at Mardi Gras. |
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| Some of the Mardi Gras crowd after parade. |
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| This is our driveway entrance when we purchased the property. What a lot of work! Compare to above photo. |
I love the before and after pictures! The sand driveway looks so nice. Please take a picture of the front and back of the house. I want to show Earl.
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