Yesterday was the anniversary. Precisely, it has been a total of three full years since we took possession of our humble little house and began the tedious process of filling it with depreciable consumer products. Yes, the effort continues. This has definitely been the longest we’ve been anywhere since escaping the nest. [...]

If you’ve ever seen the Robin Williams movie “Bicentennial Man”, you may recall the opening scene: a quiet suburban neighborhood is the setting as a delivery van pulls up to the door. A box is signed for, dragged into the house, and carefully pried open revealing a gleaming robot which promptly goes into demo [...]

Yesterday, Karin was rooting around in the girl’s mouth and discovered clear evidence of a lower incisor poking through soft gum. Yes, Claire is now officially teething. And she doesn’t seem too upset by the ordeal. Yet.
Good thing we’ve got a dental plan. (Whatever.)
I celebrated by having five yards of gravel dumped [...]

A year ago today the folks drove up from Red Deer to help with the frantic fencing bee. We spent a chilly morning and afternoon slathering green paint across a few hundred fence boards promptly followed by a lot of pounding nails that eventually led to the the bulk of the back and side [...]

Ah, another weekend in September gone and time for an update on the progress of summer projects. It has been, yes, a busy, busy summer. For those who read this regularly, it’s probably common knowledge that we’ve kept ourselves busy with little projects around the house. I reported earlier that the deck [...]

I was standing in line at the hardware store this morning, yet another pail of paint in my hand, and I got to thinking just how many projects I seem to have on the go at the moment:
1) There are still a few fence boards to tack on before winter arrives. I’m like 99% done. [...]

SHED
Aces up! The weather held out this evening (for a little while) and I managed to get three walls of the shed installed. If all goes well, there might actually be a roof sometime tomorrow afternoon.
FRINGE
Shift three is tomorrow. If anyone is thinking of stopping by the main event at all, tomorrow might [...]

I’m not impressed. Today was supposed to be the shed building extravaganza, but we woke up in the wee hours to a thunderstorm, and the rest of the day followed suit. I spent a few hours yesterday and actually got the frame and floor installed, but now there it sits, a skeleton, in [...]

In the spirit of the quickly fading summer, we ordered our shed package last week. Building it will be one of two last outdoor projects to accomplish before the weather turns cool and the insides of our house echo with the sounds of parenthood.
The shed package itself — an eight foot square, barn-style contraption [...]

Other than feeling obliged to write “every day” I’ve not much to say today… I was home for the afternoon and continued to paint on the mural. I should have some more progress done this weekend — not much else going on.
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Thanks to some cooler temperatures — as well as a few blocks of free time — I finally got a bit of work done on the baby room mural. The caveat to the photo below is simply this: It’s very much a work in progress. When it is done it should look awesome. [...]

I took the opportunity of a lazy Sunday afternoon to test out the airbrush I bought. Unfortunately I don’t think the rate of paint delivery will be up to the task of painting fifty square feet of Lorax-Mural. The paint flows (while somewhat sporadically) at a steady dusting of color that would be [...]