August Updates

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:03:20 PM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

I’ll play catch-up in a bit.  Dad came to visit and now has left.  We had a great week.

We worked:

and we played:

  • Adam’s birthday
  • Going to the state fair
  • Watching a Colts pre-season game
  • Hiking at Shades State Park
  • Going up in the 1856 Balloon Voyage at Connor Prairie…
  • …and seeing a balloon land in our neighborhood

Thanks for the great visit, dad, and all the hard work as well!

 

 

Mom is coming out for Mark’s birthday, and we’re looking forward to her visit as well.

State Fair 2009 Edition

Monday, August 17, 2009 3:29:22 PM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Today ‘the boys’ went to the State Fair.  Grandpa Sherrill is here to help out with some projects, so he came along as well. Jenny let us go without her (Pastor Wade joined us instead) and we had a good time.   The weather looked ominous, but it rained north of us, not at the Fair.  We had a beautiful 86, overcast, with a breeze.

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Mark was devastated that the 'tomato train' scale set in the Ball State building wasn't running (it had been broken a couple of days ago) but we compensated with ice cream and a ride on the patrolling tractor wagons.  (Note the happy boys—Tractors AND Ice Cream!)

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Adam fell asleep while sitting upright on the board bench and we headed home. We brought home Jenny an Elephant Ear so all is well.

Renovating our Shed

Saturday, August 15, 2009 8:21:00 PM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Dad’s out for a visit which means we have new projects to do.  First on the list is updating our shed.  I’m not sure on the age of the shed, but the house and porch are 30+ years old.  From the state of the shingles, it may be the shed dates from that era as well.

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Shingles:

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We’re going to replace the shingles, paint, and then clean/organize the interior.  A squirrel thinks that our shed is really a granary (and a nice one at that!) so we need to fix some squirrel damage.

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The interior holds a couple of purchases of hardwood lumber for woodworking projects that have been on hold for a while.  Two work benches help ‘organize’ the space and various shed implements occupy space as well.  Because the lumber takes up 2/3rds of the floor width (and the workbench covers the remainder) the other implements have no place to go.  In my life, when things don’t have a place, then they look like this:

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It’s great to have Dad out for a visit.  It’s even better that he insists on doing projects while he’s here.