Family is One of Nature's Masterpieces

We are excited about retirement for a LOT of reasons. But the main ones are featured in this post.

Today's work is categorized under End Marks - Paving a Road to Retirement. This category will feature efforts to build On the Rocks Rentals as a source of income to provide additional funds for our early retirement.

I need to lay some context about what work looks like in the Jones Family.

1. When we have a hard task, we call in family - and friends - and strangers - to help. We work together. And we all participate.

2. We never do things the easy or conventional way.

3. We work hard, but we also play hard, and we always try to make the hard work fun.

4. It is ALWAYS a learning experience.

Jacob and Megan live on a beautiful acre that is shrouded in beautiful trees, many of them ancient, very large, pecan trees. Several family gatherings have been spent over the last year trimming these trees and speculating on the best way to remove some extremely large, towering limbs that have been out of reach of our tallest ladders.

A couple of weeks ago, the whole family traveled to visit with plans for a quite, relaxing, weekend celebrating a birthday. Before Megan and I could finalize plans for the day, the guys left in a truck and we looked outside to see the photo above. Instead of hiring an entire company to trim the trees, the Jones boys had concocted a way to save some money and get the job done in one afternoon.

We have some background understanding of how a simple little task can quickly turn into all-day, mostly dangerous, and problem-riddled endeavor when all the Jones boys are together....

Today's adventure: the truck and trailer hauling the sky track can't fit through the yard gate. But not to worry - the guys have a plan: Pull the sky track across the entire acre - through gates, over sewer lines and around obstacles, while trying to avoid and not injure tiny, curious Jones boys. They will complete this task with a riding lawnmower, their combined brute strength, and sheer force of will - mostly because it presents such a challenge.

Just getting the sky track in position to trim the trees was a half-day affair.

Success!

Jones boys learn early about work and fun and doing hard things together.

And they seem to love it.

Join our journey as we work to build

On the Rocks Rentals.

We will share our family.

And our accomplishments.

And our stumbling blocks.

You will see some unconventional task completion methods. And you will witness some crazy work-arounds.

But it will be a grand adventure as we Get Busy Living.

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