The You Capture theme for this week was Real Life. I gotta be honest. Real life right now is a mess of blessings packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, poured into my lap. If I had to tell of one complete good year in my life, one full year of contentment, one full year of no pain or no suffering, … Read More
You can see all of my Tackles here. * * * This week. I hung things up. Alright. Phil hung things up. But I stood nearby handing him screws, drills, levels, and pencils. So I helped. And I told him where to put things. I don’t have before pictures this week. Mostly because pictures of blank walls would be, well, … Read More
You can see all of my Tackles here. * * * I’d been looking for a craft table, figuring I’d spend $20 or so. I stopped at my brother’s house to visit one morning and when I left, I found this gem just a few houses down. (I called and made him come get it for me!) The best part? … Read More
One room is done!! We just need to drywall a little above a door, get some trim for the ceiling and that’s that!! This has been a LONG time coming! Way Before: The Surprise Under the Floor: After: Before: After:
, You can see all of my Tackles here. * * * It was supposed to be an easy job. Rip up the carpet, lay the new oak laminate floor. Done in four or five hours. Uh huh. Sure. “Honey, does it look like the floor’s bowing there by the window? Where’s your level?” “Yep, it’s bowed alright. I bet … Read More
Duane, Jess, and Aiden Lee Born 8:53 April 27, 2009 8lbs 8oz 22.5in That’s a proud daddy if I ever saw one! And Pawpaw Phil. (I think he cried more than me. Maybe.) I’ll try to ignore my double chin. But it’s bigger than the baby’s head. Uncle Zane. Wow. The next day. Spit shined and adorable. And already missing … Read More
Our grandbaby!
The purpose of Sincerely ‘Fro Me to You (every Thursday) is to link up a post about something from your past. You can reach back all the way to your childhood and bravely post pictures of your ‘fro (don’t act like you didn’t have a bad hair style. I know you did) or post something from last year and tell … Read More
, You can see all of my Tackles here. * * * Are you sick of the construction photos yet? You should be. I am. I’m trying to be happy about all this change, but it’s tiring and I’m so done with the packing thing. Then there’s the banging upstairs and the cold and the dirt. Plus, I can’t go … Read More
You can see all of my Tackles here. * * * Alrighty! Here’s a photo of Zane’s (former!) room last week as I emptied it in anticipation of our friend Sam coming to use his mad construction skillz.In case you missed last week or you’re too lazy to click here** to see last week’s post–I’ll update you. We’re moving, Sam … Read More