Hang on tight — this is another really long one. With photos! But DANG. LONG. Our trip to Chattanooga was fantastic! It had it’s little hiccups, but it was all awesome in the end. For example, we planned to set out after our chiropractor appointment on Friday morning. We got out about 8 miles before… Continue reading
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Happy Thanksgiving!!
I hope everybody had a fantastic Thanksgiving!! We are doing *awesome* over here! It looks like it’s going to take longer than expected to get the updates and fixes done to the website, so I might as well keep on writing. Sorry about the things that don’t work — like the comments and the archives… Continue reading
Refinishing the trunk (post 1 of possibly more)
Several years ago (13 March 2010, to be exact) Justin and I rescued a trunk from a little knickknack shop that was going out of business. It was painted this hideous color beige, but it was solid wood, unfinished on the interior of the trunk, and the hardware marked it as unlike anything I’d ever… Continue reading
Tackling the vines project
Sunday afternoon, I turned to Justin and said “It’s a beautiful afternoon. I’m thinking of dragging the trunk from the living room outside to finish stripping the paint off.” To which he said, “I was thinking of mowing the lawn” and we both went and changed into work clothes for the afternoon. Now, since I… Continue reading
Beach day
I’ve been trying to think of a simile to explain what my weekend was like. The best I’ve been able to come up with is that it was like a beautiful orchestral piece, but with one obvious piece of the melody completely missing sometimes. Beautiful, gorgeous harmonies! And then a strange silence where a violin… Continue reading