The work on the MICHIGAN really started to slow down July 1, 2019, when we commenced a major front & backyard landscaping project we had been thinking about since 2014 and earlier. We had the plans for 5 years, but Janet & I had been putting it off mostly because we really dislike the disruption caused by construction activity. Routines stop and reset according to what the construction guys have in mind. The MICHIGAN got neglected while we tore up the the yards, removed trees, installed an outside kitchen & BBQ, enlarged a patio, added a patio shade structure, removed lawns, put in a new lawn, converted all irrigation to drip and low volume sprinklers. Oh…. and there was the new brickwork, and pathways and path lights and garbage can enclosure and gate and plantings and mulch and fruit trees and….. well you get the idea.  But wait, there was also the tortoise enclosure and pond and fountain and…. all together it was a major deal. No time for the MICHIGAN until the landscape work was finally finished in early February 2020.

Rancho Tortuga – with fountain, pond and Rocky outside her condo.

And then came the Covid-19 shut down with all its disruptions to life as we know it. I really didn’t get back into MICHIGAN work until about April 2020.