Christmas goodies this year included a couple big box hardware store gift cards. We turned those gift cards and a surprisingly short amount of time into a new backsplash:


Christmas goodies this year included a couple big box hardware store gift cards. We turned those gift cards and a surprisingly short amount of time into a new backsplash:


This year, I drew my mother-in-law’s name to find a Christmas gift… Continue reading
Now that I have a little bit of freedom after the [bedroom remodel death march], I have managed to finally get my digital photos organized and tagged. With that done, I can finally get back to what most folks want to see, pics of the kiddos:

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What started out as a 1 week project is now about 90% complete after 3 1/2 months…
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ls foo*.jpg | awk '{print("mv "$1" "$1)}' | sed 's/foo/bar/2' | /bin/sh
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Software update is coming, new pics and such to follow.

We put bamboo shades on our drenced-in-morning-sun front porch and it makes all the difference in the dog days of summer. We took some a.m. pics of the kiddos. Graydie has the lion’s share of the pics here- Gabe makes some cameos towards the end.






Today the lovely wife and I took Gabe to a live show of the Backyardigans Live. It was the first time we have taken him to anything like that- he hasn’t even been to a movie in the theater before.

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A big hackberry tree fell on our roof early this spring. There wasn’t much damage to speak of, but I needed to remove a small stretch of chainlink fence so the stump grinding machine could do its thing. Continue reading
Some odds and ends to make up for lost time:

Poor Graydon has been getting short shrift on the Unknown Dog. For Graydie fans out there, don’t worry, her time is coming…
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