It’s time for an Elliot update! He’s about six months old now, and starting to attempt a crawl. He’ll need a little more strength in his arms before that’ll happen, though.
Cheryl and I have been feeding him banana and sweet potato and applesauce, which is great fun for all of us. Hilarious. And then after […]

I went out and bought some fireworks this year, late in the afternoon on the fourth of July. I got a good deal on some boxes of fireworks, and then I splurged on this big-ass canister called “Sky Show”.
Now, in order to be legal in Oregon the fireworks are required to suck. And after […]

After setting up a better automatic drip irrigation system in the front of the house, I got fed up with that awful laurel nonsense on the left side of the house. Cheryl and I agree that we can do a lot better. The “how” of that hasn’t really been settled yet, exactly, but we’re pretty […]

Here are a couple of pictures of our “living room” before and after the new furniture arrived, minus the ottoman, which came a few hours later. It’s really a tremendous, huge improvement..lineBreak {clear:both} .phoThumb {padding: 10px;margin: 10px;border-style: solid;border-width: 1px;border-color:#C3C3C3;width: 200px;height: 200px;text-align: center;float: left }