A grandma who will remain unnamed let Ariella get her little fingers in our ice cream cake the other night at Amanda and my combined birthday celebration.
A big thank you to everyone for your generous gifts!
I was thinking about writing an update on Facebook about the latest in our home building adventure when I remembered – hey – we have our own blog. We pretty much stopped writing here when Facebook and Twitter got popular, exchanging blogging for microblogging. But since microblogging became social media which is now mostly everyone…
I managed to do something with the beautiful weather we had this extended weekend that I hadn’t had a chance to do all year – wash and wax BOTH cars. Those tasks always seem to get pushed to the back burner during the summer when the home improvement projects are in full swing. With the…
I got way off track with my Europe photos, so I’m going to try and work through them while I’m off for 2 weeks. Here’s the final shot of the Duomo, from the outside.
A little break from the Europe photos… I caught this spectacular cloud yesterday on the drive home. The colors were even more fantastic 10 minutes earlier, but I had to wait to get to an open area to take the shot.
… when it’s 90 degrees outside, 85 degrees inside, no air conditioning, and noisy as hell because there are concrete contractors running around your yard digging, filling, hammering, and pouring concrete for the new patio and sidewalks. To make it worse, I had to close all the windows so the color powder doesn’t blow inside…