We’ve made some more progress on the house. Here’s a couple videos. The narration didn’t get picked up so you can’t hear my great descriptions. As of now, 95% of the framing is done, doors and windows are in and skylights are framed but not installed. The A/C guy has started putting in the new [...]
Things are really moving along finally. Here is some eye candy for ya… The House We have about one more week of framing left. We ended up having to tear off the whole roof: rafters and joists, nearly everything. I think our house is going to end up being only 10% original. The Landscaping Behind [...]
Hello all! We have some exciting news to share and thought we’d get back to blogging so you don’t miss anything. As you may know, Amanda and I bought a foreclosure about five months ago. We have been watching this house since October of 2010, so nearly a year later, construction is going to begin! [...]
While we were in Pittsburgh last week we saw a news bulletin that an airplane had crashed into one of the IRS buildings. Our good friends Chrissy and Craig had a way too up-close vantage point. I got this email from Craig that day:
We haven’t been blogging much lately, but there has been plenty of stuff going on to catch up on. So, here we go…
It had been way too long since we visited the Cross’ up in yankeeville. What a marvelous adventure it was! Here are a few of my favorite video clips from the trip:
We rung in the new year as it should be done. With a toast of champagne watching the New York Times Square countdown. And, to ensure our good luck and prosperity we had the traditional new year’s dinner including black-eyed peas and spinach.
We’d be happy ducks if every week was as wonderful as this one. Amanda and I were off Thursday through Sunday and enjoyed a wonderful weekend of cooking and hosting family. Thursday (Christmas Eve) started off with some food prep, and Amanda put the finishing touches on our house for Christmas.
We skipped our post last week so there’s a little catching up to do.
Our good pals Lynn and Bri are still in the far east but we managed to have a good time anyway.
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