After a prolonged absence I felt it was time for a quick update. We have been massively busy for the last couple of weeks with some major projects. At first I was anxious to get outside and start work on "The Great Front Yard Restoration", but with blizzards on both weekends I had off at the beginning of May, my hopes were slightly dashed. I was finally able to start some digging last week and got a start on the retaining wall I want to build around our massive fir tree. Then, Dianne announced that she wanted to paint the master bedroom so that I would have a pleasant environment to recoup from surgery in. Just a splash of paint , she said. But I knew better and sure enough the "splash of paint" project turned into the "project from hell". After removing the remaining wallpaper from the walls, we discovered that there was some water damage around the windows, so that had to be repaired. In the process we replaced half a wall of drywall, tore up the carpeting, removed sections of the subfloor, treated the flooring for mold, ripped off all the baseboards and casings and decided that we had to replace every window in the house. So now I am just finishing off the painting and will be screwing down the subfloor in preparation for the installation of a new laminate floor tommorrow. We are putting in all new baseboards and casing which all have to be painted yet. We then have a new closet door and ceiling fan to install and then it will be done. We are also contemplating getting a brand new bed which Dianne has been drooling over for several weeks since Sandi bought one for herself. Here's a couple of pictures of the work in progress:









I'll post a couple of pictures of the finished product.

Please check out this website of the daughter of some friends of ours. She is a young 19 year old woman who is in desparate need of a kidney transplant. Please check out the site and send her a message to encourage her. Her Mom tells me that since the site went live on Tuesday May 20 she has had over 32,000 hits from all over the world.

In about three weeks I will be heading to the hospital for my surgery. As this is going to slow me down considerably I should have lots of time on my hands to ponder the universe and as such I hope to be a little more prolific in my postings. I will be attempting to do some writing at this time also and catching up on some reading. I haven't waded through Lord of the Rings for some time. So look forward to a little more output on this site in the form of choice gems of writing and maybe some inspired photography.

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