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Since I rained out today on the construction of the "multi-purpose" building, I thought I might catch up on a little office work. To date, the building is looking good. The roofing and siding architectural design worked out very well, after a little exterior trim work, I will be ready to work on the door and move in to the interior finish work. Have run into a small problem, that is how I am going to move it out of my driveway and to it's proper location - I can foresee a major task in this accomplishment.

I do have a little time to figure that problem out since we are now into full "spring breakup" and the "whole in the wall campground" is slowly evolving into a beautiful lake. The one camper on jacks is still above the water line, but I did see a beaver looking at it the other day. I assume he was considering why he should build a house when a nice one was already on site. The second smaller trailer, the last we saw it was when it was floating across the highway and over the bank. I am sure we will be able to recover it later into the spring.

I know that all of you are planning to come visit me to celebrate the date of my birth on May 18th. If you are traveling in from the north, you will need to make a small detour to get to my humble adobe. Traveling the Sterling Highway from the north, you will need to pass through Anchor Point and proceed to the south end of the Old and New Sterling Highway intersection, turn right on the Old Sterling Highway and drive back north to Anchor Point. My drive way will be the second to last driveway that you can turn into before you reach Anchor Point. You may want to add 31.5 minutes to your driving time in order to take this new route to my home and the "Hole In the Wall Campground". It seems in the wisdom of the state engineers that they will be closing the Anchor River bridge on the Old Sterling Highway to all traffic from May 8th to May 18th. Being that this is a "state employee" in house construction project, I estimate that they will be done by July 4th. Problems are already starting to compound, I am just one mile from my video store business, yet I will have to drive 18 miles to get to the store. They will start launching boats on April 29th, after May 8th, all the boats will have to go around to get to the beach, another 18 mile detour. They also forgot to consider that kids will still need to get to school, although some only live a half mile from school - they go half way to Homer and back again to get to their destination. But, the good news is that the old bridge needed some work and perhaps the reason they have a target date of completion on May 18th, perhaps they are going to dedicate it to me! Heath has come up with a business concept, he figures that if he puts his boat in the river on a pulley line like they have on the Russian River ferry, he can charge everyone $5.00 to cross the river! It is going to be a mess but do not let that stop you from coming down for the spring clean up project, the campground should be de-watered by then. Once again, would someone ask me why I want to retire!

Prior to closing, I have a question that I am seeking the answer. There was a mechanic and a plumber waiting in line for admission to the "International Tool Show" at Sullivan Arena. One of them was the father of the other one's son. How could this be possible?