This year’s project is… dun-da-da-dun… The Living Room! After finishing up the office near the end of 2013 (and the finished result), I did a few short projects, like painting the kitchen and the laundry room upgrades. That means we’ve checked off […]
Each month, we have several accounts that we contribute to. They’re usually pretty small amounts, but that way we are always saving toward those things. One of those accounts is our “large household item” accounts, which is where we purchase… […]
We are blessed to have so many awesome fathers in our lives. My daddy, Bobby, and Ansen’s daddy, Steve, have shaped us both more than we could ever describe. Then there’s their dads’ and our moms’ dads’. For me (Dri) that’s my dad’s dad, Papa Dale, my mom’s dad Grandad Walt, my dad’s “step” dad, Grandpa Kinny, and my dad’s grandpa, Great Grandad Ted. For Ansen, that’s his dad’s dad, Grandpa Max and his mom’s dad, Grandpa Alden. All those grandpas have had a profound impact on our parents and therefore us… and we think they’re pretty cool guys as well.
My great grandma, Billie “Joy” Knight, was a strong woman. Though most would think of her as sweet, kind, shy, maybe even soft, I chose to remember her as strong. Hers was a quite strength, not one that was boisterous or crazy. No, that was her partner in crime, grandad Ted. She married her best friend at the young age of 16 and loved him until her last breath at 85.
As usual, I have way more projects in the queue than I have time for, but here are a couple that I am currently working on.
The garden:
I planted the lettuce in the center. Apparently they’re out of spinach and they only had a very small selection of seeds left at this late date. Also, I staked the tomatoes so they will grow big and strong.
