Best Decision Ever

You gotta leave me now
You gotta go along
You gotta chase a dream
One that’s all your own
Before it slips away

When you’re flying high
Take my heart along
I’ll be the harmony
To every lonely song
But you’ll learn to play

When you’re soaring through the air
I’ll be your solid ground
Take every chance you dare
I’ll still be there
When you come back down

Eight years ago, my best friend came back to me. I had watched her leave because she wouldn't have been the same person if she hadn't. She needed to chase things out west and find what was waiting..calling. On June 1st of 2002 we gathered friends and family under the guise of a dinner to celebrate our engagement, and were married after dinner, inside Union Station.

Dashed Again...

..out into the rain to go to the rental place to get a tiller. Only to have my hopes of FINALLY getting my garden tilled dashed by a downpour or two. Holy crap...I don't know how your supposed to get a garden started around here other than covering your plot with a tarp before every rain.

"Get your own damned tiller", you say? Well, the POS tiller that I left in Tucson because it wouldn't go in the truck (because I was hauling a friend's dirt bike back to the midwest)...it would sell for about $95 around here even in poor shape. It's insane! My dad's got two old tillers in AR that I can have, but I have to wait on him to bring them up here. Sure, I've got a trailer and a hitch on the Subie, but it's got a wicked case of Subaru piston slap right now and I don't really want to drive it any further than I can afford the tow bill (flatbed of course because of the awd). Of course, I could get a hitch for the superJetta, but that's almost $500 right there.....

Just. can't. win.

New to Skype

We finally got our camera set up and are really enjoying Skype. The LW was able to talk to her sister out on the east coast and just today I talked with a good friend of mine and his kids out in CA. It's really something to see the person you're talking to and I can't wait for our Tucson peeps and some others in N. Carolina to get hooked up.

We picked up a Logitech 9000 camera from eBay for a little over $50 and it works fine.

House Paint

This past Saturday the guys from K&L Precision Painting finished up the exterior of the house. It looks great and they really did a nice job with the details. They did well with scheduling too considering that they had to work around the rain and crappy weather that we were having when they started the job. We had to get the lead-based paint covered up as part of our 203K loan deal, so it was a bit more expensive than a regular job, but it was worth every cent. We went with Sherwin Williams paint since there's a store here in G-Town and we picked Weathered Shingle for the body and Roycroft Vellum for the trim. Our brick is roughly the same color as Aurora Brown, so we took a guess and it turned out well. The neighbors love it and are happy to see our old house turning around for the better.

52?

WTH? Where's summer already? It's 50 damned 2 degrees outside....in mid-May! It's already in the mid-90s in T-town and I sure wish that I had some of that here right now...just a little...enough to bring the ground temp up just a hair.

Going to start work on the garden in the MIL's yard soon. It's just strips where the sod cutter went to work now and the clay pan is not letting the water go into the ground. Each bed looks like a flooded road right now; it just descends into standing water at the low end of the garden....sheesh.

4th Birthday

CP's party this weekend was a blast. Auntie V. and the LW put together a wonderful scavenger hunt, and put away a bottle of wine in the planning of it. The kids loved it and having to actually do something at the party and it seemed to go over well with all of them. Before the hunt, they colored their own bags with stencils, so they'd have a place for the stash of goodies. My brother came over, brought the neices, and ran the brats on the grill. We hired MJ, the owner of Sister Act Face Painting to come and entertain the kids with her exceptional art work. I had to get ready and scoot just as the candle was being blown out, so that I could put my camera to use at a friend's wedding. A link from shutterfly will be in the inboxes soon...I hope.