Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!

Quick post with a few pictures. Happy (late by 2 days) Birthday to my sister Jen and Happy Early Birthday to my sister Dee. Your presents went in the mail today.

Our St. Patrick's Day was nice and laid back. We went with Mike to an inspection that lasted about 5 minutes and earned him $125. Nice! Then we went to lunch at a really good small Mexican place we found last week. Then, instead of the Home Depot, we hit the church we've been attending for their big indoor garage sale that was going on. We got there in the last hour, but scored 3 good finds. For a whopping $18.38, we got a nice credenza that I'll use to store some sewing things in, a twin bed frame for Peanut when he's in a big boy bed, and about 1/2 yard of fabric for bag linings. The credenza ($15) needs the door put back on and some very minor tweaking, the bed frame ($3) sanded down and restained, and the fabric washed ($0.38). We'll take before and after pictures of the bed frame. It's going to be awesome when he's done.

Here's a few new photos....

Spring training game. One of the few times Peanut left the hat on his head.

YUMMM! Oreos are good.

I think Peanut watches Mommy's hand gestures when she drives. ;)

I'm off to get back to school work.

TTFN ~Crys

Felt like sharing....

Last week I went and did a claim for a shipper that was skeptical at best that I would be able to fix any of her broken furniture. These are my favorite people to deal with, well, usually they are. 99% of the time, the person ends up getting blown away by what can be done with their broken furniture...even the fugly stuff that makes you wonder what they were thinking when they bought it in the first place, but I digress. This was one of those 99% times. She had some various things that were broken and damaged, an antique clock, a dining room chair arm, a desk, a dresser, the normal stuff. Got that all fixed and signed off on, then she asked me to take a look at an old tv armoire that she had and was damaged at her last home.

The story she told me went something like this: "We bought this house, then we decided we didn't like this one particular wall, so we had the builder add in a nook that would exactly fit this TV armoire, they built it, but they built it too small, so instead of fixing the wall, they cut my armoire". Then she showed me this:


Wow, cut it they did. So I take a closer look at it and tell her, sure, I can fix that. But I'll have to do it another day as I have another appointment to go to. This lady was so happy that it could be fixed, I probably could have charged alot more and gotten away with it...damn it all to heck, hind sight sucks! Anyway, I made an appointment with her for yesterday, and went back to fix it up. At first I was thinking I was just going to use a whole lot of putty and spend hours shaping and sanding it. But when I went back, I really got to looking at it and came up with a better idea. Why not build it back up using real wood? So, I took some measurements, and ran off to Home Depot, conveniently located less than 2 minutes from her home :)

With wood in hand (tee-hee) I went back and started the process with this:


Then, filled in the gaps with some putty to make it all flow together, broke out the sand paper and gave it a nice smoothing out. Took a step back to figure out what colors to use, went to the truck and got the colors, and finished it off with this:



I love it when a plan comes together :)

Can I see your green card please?

Meet Hector. Ok, I don't know for sure his name is Hector, but he looked like a Hector while he was flying around in our garage. I don't know why Hector...get over it, thats what I named him.

Hector is a Achemon Sphinx moth, sometimes called a "Hawk moth" or "hummingbird moth", why hummingbird? I can only guess cause they are about the size of a hummingbird. And if it came down to a fight between the two? I'm taking the moth, cause he's bigger? no, cause he has more hair than a certain hairy fairy I used to work with...you know who you are. This thing has more hair than a Yak. Ok, here is Hector's last...and possibly only photo.


Yes, that's a U.S. quarter sitting next to him. I told you he was big. He was actually alot fuller looking in the body, but then Hector made the mistake of landing on my work bench, and then mocking me "what's up honky", "come over here white bread so I can pimp slap you". I've been called plenty of names in my day, and will probably be called more before its all over, but come on, Crystal was watching, I had to stand up for myself. Thats right, there was no backing down from this fight. Sure he was quicker when he was in the air, but now he was on my turf, and he just didn't know when to stop with his smack talking. I was working on building myself a furniture dolly to help move big items on my own, so I was armed with a piece of lumber. What's that you say? Use a weapon against him instead of just going hand to hand on him...did you not look at the picture? All he would have had to do is fly up plug my nose with his legs, and then cram his head in my mouth and bam, I'm done. I wouldn't have been able to breathe. Well I for one am not going out like that. I smashed his face in with that piece of wood, in fact, I hit him so hard his lunch flew out his ass and splattered all over my brand new pneumatic staple gun that was laying on the bench minding its own business, another innocent victim of the human/bug war....why cant we all just get along?