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Skyfort Playset Installation – Day 8 (4/6)
Things have been pretty busy over here. I was not able to work at all yesterday, and today I didn’t have much time after I took a kid to soccer practice. But I was actually pretty stoked to continue work, so as soon as I got home and put the kids to bed, I went…
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Skyfort Playset Installation – Day 6 (4/4)
Day 5 was Sunday aka a Day of Rest. So no work done until Monday (4/4/11). I had originally coordinated with my coworker Geoff to come over on Saturday. He is also building a playset this summer, so the thought was that we would swap labor – he’d help me on mine, and I’d help…
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Skyfort Playset Installation – Day 4 (4/2)
Friday night it stormed pretty good, with some ice / hail thrown in for good measure. I worried as I lay in bed. I mean obviously the playset can’t be hidden from the elements forever, right? It is going to live outside after all! Still, we hadn’t sealed or stained it yet and I worried…
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Skyfort Playset Installation – Day 3 (4/1)
Day 3 was another cold day. When I got home, I immediately set out to continue progress! I had stored the first part of the playset underneath the carport to protect it from the elements, but obviously that was not going to be possible very much longer. You can see the first section in the…
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Skyfort Playset Installation – Day 1 (3/30)
As we mentioned previously, Day 1 was Wednesday March 30th. The playset was delivered in the afternoon and my wife let me know while I was at work. I know that the stereotype of these types of endeavors is that it’s a ton of work and not enjoyable at all. But at least at this…
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Skyfort Playset Installation – Choice and delivery
Our family of seven had had a playset on our “list” for several years before we actually purchased one. We wanted to buy one soon enough that our kids (at the time ranging in age from 10 to 2) were young enough to still enjoy it but old enough to be able to do stuff…
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In which I was mocked for recycling
First off, I know Carolyn has mentioned this already, but Facebook really does seem to be killing my blog. I guess that’s the way things go – always something “newer” and “better”. Take email – to someone my age or even a bit younger, email is the way to go to communicate things. Someone older…
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Conference talk – To Acquire Spiritual Guidance
So, I’m back in the saddle of reading conference talks. Today was my first one reading the new conference that just happened earlier this month. But since I missed Priesthood session, I have the whole list to do, which is 34 talks, so I will have to double up to get them done by April.…
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2009 Staycation, Part 2
Continuing my staycation report (Part 1). Thursday was a relax day. Well, it was supposed to be relaxing in that we didn’t really go anywhere. But it wasn’t so much relaxing since we had tons of shopping, cleaning, packing and preparing for our weekend trip up to Cleveland! Friday we got up early (well normal…
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2009 Staycation, Part 1
So we have been planning a “staycation” here in and around town for awhile, and this past week we started it off. First off was a Reds game on Tuesday night. It rained pretty much the entire day and it was not looking good for a game, but about 5:00 p.m. the clouds lifted and…