The Lake
Report
October 28 - November 3, 2002
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We had breakfast at Sam Jake's Inn
in Merrickville on Monday A.M.
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Did you catch us on Canada A.M.?
Jeff was in Merrickville on his ultimate road trip
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Caza came and removed excess rocks and earth and graded front
lawn
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He dumped the stuff to the right of Carlie's apple tree towards
Chemin Trepanier
- - the beginnings of my
tennis court!
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The septic tank was put into place on Thursday
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Then the peat pit filtration systems were placed on a foundation
of crushed rock
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- The septic tank drain
leads into the 4 peat pits
(one per bedroom is what they calculate)
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- Something told the wild
geese it was time to go
- The temperature dipped
to 7 degrees below zero C. Wednesday night
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- Our propane furnace arrived
Thursday
- They measured for the
duct work and will be back next week to install it
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It's November 1st and we have snow!
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Ken gets started on the studding Friday
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Pit for septic dain pipe -
- Don't worry Lynn, I transplanted the Asian
& Oriental lilies, the varigated iris and other stuff
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Laying down the septic drain pipe and covering it with
crushed rock, styrofoam and earth
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Connecting the drain pipe back to peat filtration tanks
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Had to come back Saturday to finish the trench for the water
pipes
More huge rocks!
Plumber and Electrician due Monday to hook up water, toilets
and our new tankless hot water heater...
now, if we only had our windows and patio doors installed!