Original sentence: Building a large float on Lake Shannon (just above the town of Concrete), they had approximately fifty fishing boats for rent.Nell and Kate also bought a large tugboat in order to tow logs to a lumbermill on Lake Shannon and had a fishing boat franchise.Nell ran the tugboat for the mill-operation and Kate ran the fishing boat operation on the weekends, allowing them to still operate the telephone company during the week.Together, Kate and Nell claimed the vacant lot between their home and their telephone office and built a chicken house - raising thousands of chickens, selling the eggs as well as chickens
Edited sentence: Building a large float on Lake Shannon (just above the town of Concrete), they had approximately fifty fishing boats available for rent.Nell and Kate also purchased a large tugboat in order to tow logs to a lumbermill on Lake Shannon and operated a fishing-boat franchise.Nell ran the tugboat for the mill-operation and Kate ran the fishing boat operation on the weekends, allowing them to still run the telephone company during the week.Together, Kate and Nell claimed the vacant lot between their home and their telephone office and built a chicken house - raising thousands of chickens and selling the eggs as well as some of the chickens