It was along about this time, when I was in the 8th or 9th grade, that mom and dad started talking along with some friends of ours about buying some lakefront property in Missouri. The lots they were considering to buy were in the Ozark mountains in southern Missouri on Table Rock Lake. The idea was to buy these lots and build a resort and boat dock. The friends backed out of the deal so mom and dad went ahead and did it themselves. No hard feelilngs to the friends.
The lots of course were full of rocks, big and small, twigs, tree stumps, brush ect. so it took a lot of cleaning up before we could even think about starting to build. Dad and sometimes mom would go down there whenever they got the chance and work on it.
Then they had to get some heavy machinery like bulldozers and road graders to level off the area for our roads and our cabins. There was a lot of preparation before we could build.
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I didn't realize they bought the property and had to clear it themselves. I assumed they bought the resort, as is. I'm sure that took a lot of work and dedication.
ReplyDeleteYes, they built the resort from the ground up. They had the foundation dug and waterpipes done for them, but most of the cabins they did themselves.
ReplyDeleteHow many years of back and forth was there for Grandpa? Obviously took some time since you were in the 7th or 8th grade, yet started high school in Wichita.
ReplyDeleteI think probably when I was in 8th grade it was just an idea, and when I was in 9th it started being more of a reality. My memory is very fuzzy on this time frame. We moved to the hills the spring of my sophomore year.
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