My truck

I had my truck inspected for rust this week. The frame was in such bad shape the dealership wouldn't even let me take the truck home. I was feeling a little upset about the lose of a old friend. I am feeling better today as I got a call from the Toyota corporation offering me 3/4 of what I originally paid for it! Amazing what a little cash will do!

new elliptical

This is for you Mom, a little demonstration of the elliptical. I tried to send it to you in your email, but AOL wouldn't let it go through. The ceiling in the basement is 7 feet tall, so when I stopped and started going the other direction it kicked my head into the ceiling. You get a little instruction with some comedy too!

Flower bed update

We are now about half way through the growing season and we have flowers and very few weeds. I guess we can now say we had some success! It is down now to watering a couple days a week, and pulling weed here of there, and giving the flowers a shot of miricle grow every couple weeks! You can see that the heat has taken its toll on the yard, but not to torn up about not having to mow very often!

Flower beds

Here is the finished product of all our digging, planting and mulching this weekend. It was a bit of a challenge as we had 8 inches of rain this month, so have been working in a lot of mud. It looks good now, we shall see how it looks in a month!

painting the weekend away

It has been a busy weekend. We started on Friday morning painting the living room, dining room, hallway, and foyer. We ran the tan color that the basement room is painted up the foyer wall and then painted the rest of the rooms a light green. We finished up most of the painting yesterday. We spent today putting in the light fixtures Michelle brought a Tiffany chandelier from her house that we have hung over the dining room table. We bought another Tiffany chandelier in the foyer, which got a little costly as I bought a 10 foot step ladder so I wouldn't break my neck on the extension ladder! We also bought 2 light fixtures for the hallway. The house looks great and now we got rid of that 60's feel!

A sick day and a mish mash of things

It has been awhile since I last posted! Today I did something I haven't done since December of 2008, I called off from work. It is nothing real serious, just fighting a cold/ flu thing. I should be back to normal in a few days. I have spent the day trying to rest , but it seems something is always coming up. Between reading and watching a "House" marathon on USA, I have taken calls from my boss, who was checking in to see if I thought I would be in for work tomorrow. I then handled a banking snafu (which was my fault) that I had money taken out of the wrong account on bill pay. I have dozed some.

I guess it's time to let you know what is going on in my life these days and didn't want to particullary do that in a checking in letter. I have been seeing Michelle since last April and we decided we are taking it to another level and she moved in here at the begining of the year. We have spent January moving her stuff here and have spent most of Feburary getting her house fixed up to rent. Let me tell you it is a lot of work combining 2 households. We have hired out a lot of the work at her house as we just don't have the time to do it. It looks like we have a renter ready to move in in March. Snick is not an only child now as Michelle has a dog Buttercup, and 2 cats Percy and Hyde. The decision for her to move here and not for me to move to her house is that she can retire in 2 years and I still have to work for at least 5 to 9 years. It Made more sense for her to commute for the 2 years than me to do it for 10! Michelle has a daughter Megan who will turn 21 this next month. She is finishing up school in Pennsylvania, we see her mostly on the weekends. Even though we have hired out all the painting work at the other house, we still have been busy throwing stuff out and making decisions what to throw out and what to keep. We are down to the Christmas decorations in the attic and some stuff in the garage. We are looking forward to having a Sunday that doesn't involve going to buy supplies at Home Depot! That's the latest from North east Ohio.