Been gone

It has been such a long time since I took time to do a post. It is really sad that I have not had anything to write about. Such is life. Kind of reminds me of a quote we learned in the military about combat: Combat is a few minutes of terror and confussion sandwiched between hours of boredom. That about sums everything up. I have learned that boredom is not neccessarily a bad thing. At least when you are bored you aren't terriffied or confused.

I guess the big thing is, the remodel is on! We are now finishing up with the bank and then the hammering will begin. We are looking at appliances today and we get the kitchen measure and design on Thursday. We will get a storage container delivered on Saturday so we can start emptying the house for the remodeler's. Here is a before pic of the back porch looking really bad. Hopefully the next pic will have the house looking fine!

Building character

Heather and Jared came last Friday. It is always lovely to have one of the kids home. Heather and I went for her first bike ride on Saturday morning. I am pleased to report that she did awesome! We went 13 miles with no major issues worth mentioning. Got home just in time for it to start raining. It started raining Saturday afternoon and it has not stopped yet. Do not like to complain about rain, but enough is enough.

I tried to take Monday off to study for my first real college test in quite a long time. Of course work would not let me. I spent over half of the day troubleshooting stuff while I should have been studying. When I took the test on Tuesday, my lack of study showed through. I made the worst grade I have ever made (43.2). I was devastated. I really did try to study and prepare. I was so upset I did not sleep Tuesday night. However, I did build Heather's kids a very cute doghouse to get rid of some of my frustrations. Wednesday was an ok day at work so I got to leave early so I could come home and get the first bid on the remodel. This contractor came at us with a $93K bid! I about died. I had told him we only wanted to spend around $50K. I was soooo upset that I basically ran him off. This upset me so much that I do not sleep Wednesday night. For those that know me, you know a lack of sleep is not a good thing for me to experience. I started getting sick. I ran 102 fever so I stayed home on Friday. It was nice. It was cold and rainy so I stayed in bed all day and read "The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society". Very enjoyable book.

Sally and I basically took this weekend off. We met with our new contractor on Saturday and then went to Houston. We say her parents and then delivered the doghouse to the grand dogs. We then did a little shopping at Dillard's and finally stopped at IKEA to price our kitchen. Sunday was nice and lazy. I am certainly glad that the past week is gone!

Life in the little city ...

Things are really hoping in our house right now. Sally and I are REALLY BUSY with our jobs. No problem there, that is how it is suppossed to be. However, instead of going with it like normal people we decide that I should go to grad school and remodel a house all at the same time. Let me give you a little tip ... DO NOT TRY THIS ON YOUR OWN! I do not know why Sally and I cannot be content with a simple, quiet life. No matter how hard we try, we always sign up for more than we can chew. Oh well, at least we will have lots of memories when we are in the nursing home.

Last Saturday, Jessie and I participated in one of my favorite things; a bike ride! We met in Waco for the Wild West Century. We really had a great time. It was a very lovely, flat and windless ride. Jessie said it was her best yet. It really was lovely. The route let us ride on top of the dam. That was really pretty cool. We spent most of the weekend with Gran. She was very glad to have us. Sunday was blur. Church, CCE, Sally "installed" at the Luthern school, Lutheran communion (am I going to hell?), Herb and Pat, then disaster at work so i went in to the office and stayed till 7:30. heather and Petter for a short visit, then back to Brenham to finish work till 10:30! WHEW!!!! This is a typical day in our life right now.

O.K., enough whining. Time to give thanks. Thank you Jesus for Lycoros Radiata (Spider Lillies). We have a bumper crop of them this year and they are lovely. I do truly see GOD in my gardens. Speaking of gardens, the new Pospicil garden is doing great. Sally and I mulched it with newspaper and hay. We are going to have a bumper crop of COLLARD GREENS, CHARD, GREEN BEENS, YELLOW SQUASH, RUTABAGAS and TOMATOS. Finally, we met with the contractor last night. Jason Grimm. Nice fellow. He is excited to work on our old house and we are excited to have him. He has done Edna's house and her daughter's B&B. Very good and we are very excited.