Hole in the tub

So i saw the need to continue to "fix" our bathroom because our towel rack fell off the wall, and we developed a hole in our tub....So i went to Lowes and Sarah and I got a caulk gun and a caulk tube and i went to work on our bathroom.

Black Friday

So i decided to continue the tradition that Sarah and I began last year of getting up early on Black Friday to buy stuff. Unfortunately one of us had to stay home with the girls. So I decided to be the early riser, but first i had to make a plan. I got all the ads out and figured out what we needed and wanted and where it was avalible. Then i looked at which stores had the most things avalible and figured out how i could go to the least amount of stores and get the most stuff. I ended up needing to go to 4 stores, K-mart, Target, Best Buy, and Radio Shack. Thats right ladies and gentleman i didn't have to go to Wal-Mart!! WOO WHOO!! Well next i drew up a map of where i needed to go and in what order...this was very entertaining to our girls...Anyways i got up at 5am on Friday...and was out the door..First stop was Best buy where i bought 2 movies for $5 total....Next stop K-Mart to get $8 CD players for the girls (no more borrowing or "she took it without asking") but guess what happens to $8 CD players....they run out...Oh well...On to Target to get presents for our family, more movies, and a George Foreman for the house. Last stop is Radio Shack to get new phones for the house and one more present. I was home by 8am and ready to go a whole day at work, and prepare for the whole weekend of work. As our Paster Ray Conata would say "move towards the pain"...We just need to figure out how to not be in pain :c). Pray for our girls...Sarah....Me....and Emma/Eli...

LIVING IN 2007

You know you are living in 2007 when.......

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )

12 You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list

AND NOW YOU ARE LAUGHING at yourself.

The Price we pay to drill

So the other day I decided to let the girls in on my house fixing adventures. This time i was working on the landscaping timber for the front yard. If your wondering where i am in the process let me tell you.
I began with Looking at and determining that the wood was rotten and needed to be replaced.
Next I bought the new landscaping timber (only 3 logs the first time, cuz i mis-estimated) it turned out to need 9 logs.
Next i tore out the old logs.
Then i measured the garden and determined how long i needed to trim the logs to in order for them to fit.
Next i measured where the re-bar was and marked on the landscaping timber where to put the holes.
HERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS.
I was going to allow the girls to drill some of the holes in the timber so i put my 12V drill cordless drill on one of the holes and told the girl to go at it. Well she made it about 1/2 through the timber and the drill died. I figured out my cordless rechargeable drill was not going to survive the 27 holes that needed to be drilled if it could not survive through 1.

To Make a long story short i decided i needed a corded drill. I went next door to the hardware store and told them the size i needed and they were anything but helpful. So i decided to walk to the Ace Hardware down the street. I thought it was about 9 blocks down so i decided to get some excersie and walk. I invited the girls to come with me, told Sarah, and off we went. 2 miles and about 30 blocks later we were at ACE (3535 Magazine). 4 miles total walked and not enough time left in the day to drill the holes. But don't worry i did it on the rain day we had 2 days later. Next step putting the timbers on the re-bar and planting new plants :c).

My New Project..AN ARK

So for some odd reason while the rest of the country is having rabid forest fires (south California), droughts, and back in SC water restrictions, We here in New Orleans are taking on water. I checked the weather last night to see if it was going to rain because i was going to finish my landscaping timber project today on my day off. Well it said something like "scattered showers". They lied....It began raining this morning and has not stopped since, Urban Flooding is so bad by our house that i had to walk through 1/2 ft. of water on the sidewalk going to the Circle K just down the street. Lucky for me I have my Crocs (i used to hate them when people would wear them, but they are just SOO useful). Poor Bella the dog had to go potty on the cement because all the grass had at least 3in of water on it. When i find my camera PC cord i will post a video of my walk to the circle K....Pray for the people in the city because Sarah and I live in one the highest parts of the city. Most of the girls schools have been canceled because of flooding, i guess part of the "charm of the city" is all the water we get to experience. I should get my Kayak from the storage unit and go for a "paddle"...Ahhh the joys of New Orleans.

Landscaping the yard

I didn't feel the need to talk about mowing the lawn anymore because it was not a challenge anymore...Ive got it down to about 35 min...including blowing the grass off the sidewalk..However i did do something new...I "trimmed" the tree in the front yard...Turns out i have a Japanese Yew...I found this out as i was trimming it and our paster walked by (isn't New Orleans Great!) He told me that he is lucky enough to have the largest one in our neighborhood. Too bad for him i have the largest live Oak...which are much cooler. Anyways..he told me the name and i forgot it of course..so i took a trimming and fruit sample inside and looked it up...He was right, Japanese Yew. Well the trimming didn't turn out so good for the tree...but they grow back i hear :c). Sorry Mike!

I Began the process of replacing the landscaping timber in the front garden. I began by pulling off the old rotten pieces and i met lots of new friends, Worms, Skinks, and lots of slugs (the girls call them leaches and run away from them). It was a bigger job than anticipated...as always. Sarah came home so i got a decent stopping point and cleaned up the yard (i had pieces of wood EVERYWHERE....

New Light in Living room...Stringing cable..restringing phone

Today i took down the light in our living room and i rewired the new light fixture that sarah and i picked out up by connecting the white to white, black to black and gold to gold (gold is a new one for me). So now we have a new light fixture in the living room...We also have a new one to put up in the bedroom...but thats for another day.
Friday i decided to restring the cable cord so that it was not strung across the room anymore. So i drilled a hole next to the hole a drilled for the Fax phone cord and...WOOOPS...i snapped the fax phone cord in half...so then my new priority was restringing the Fax cord..cuz hello...we are running a business here and get lots of Faxes...Matt made a boo boo. Well i restrung the Fax line then strung the cable cord...YEAY MATT...All boo boo's fixed and i accomplished something.