When you’re making enchiladas around here, you drain the canned chicken onto a plate and deliver it as an offering unto the local hooligans.
Mmmmmmmmmmm…….. soupy……
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… That should be the title of my autobiography. I think I said long ago that the teepee was not going to work, and it surely didn’t. Oh, well. It keeps the cats out.
When the rain comes, it FILLS UP that sandbox, and there have been many mornings I’ve either bailed it out alone or with the help of some school-age heros. This evening, I tried siphoning it with a hose. It worked, but verrrrrrryyyyy slowly. I checked on it after half an hour and it had only gone down an inch. I left it to drain overnight.
…. and it is supposed to rain……
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Lauren’s asleep, so I can post now. Some of you have seen some of these pictures on the Social Medias. My hobby now is putting art shows together. It’s very rewarding and I highly recommend it. So far we have raised about 60k from the sale of the art that the Marxhausen family donated to the Child Development Center and to the Center for Liturgical Arts. Previously these were separate en devours, but our forces have been combined now.
Anyway, the current show is centered around the liturgical art pieces that we have.
But we’re displaying some of the pieces from previous shows in The Vault. It’s literally a vault.
I looked for older posts that I could link to that talked about this, but I guess I we never wrote any. that’s a little strange. Maybe I just can’t find them. If you’re interested, there are some press releases that you can read, and you can also see the art online. Or, if you had any questions, you could just ask.
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We went to Sam and Rachel’s for supper and Beth brought up the summer when we gave each other superhero names. She had spent a wedding serving punch, so she was Punch Girl. Now that we are older and wiser, we thought we could have names related to adult beverages. It turned out they are not superhero names, they’re mostly summer nicknames.
In honor of her text alert sound, that sounds like a bottlecap being popped off:
In honor of his gin and tonic skills:
In honor of her favorite way to drink Jameson and her new degree:
In honor of her birthday and her birthday beverage:
In honor of his standard beverage and youngest male physique:
In honor of his margarita-making machine and skills:
We even honored those not there. In honor of his rum-and-coke preference:
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Happy Father’s Day to our Dads! 🙂
Lloyd had a Republican thing in Nebraska City this weekend. He asked a long time ago if I wanted to come along. I wasn’t too jazzed until he said we could rent a cabin. Yay!
The campground is called Hidden Falls, and for any of you weenies that dislike camping, just do this. We had a kitchen, a bathroom, a bed, a sofa, a porch, and the ability to make fire. Of course, it was a billion degrees Friday night, so I had Council Fire Saturday morning. The view one way was a beautiful field with trees. The view the other way was the parking lot-style campground that I am judge-y about.
Still a good fire, though.
The cabin checked off all my tiny house needs and wants. Saturday morning I dropped Lloyd off at his conference and then went back to spend the rest of the morning imagining that I lived there. Here’s the layout:
That’s right. I drew it. It was about 21’x 21′, if my foot math is correct.
It was like staying in a self-standing hotel suite. Very, very fun, but pricey. I think instead of staying there again, I will just start building my own. 🙂
Oh, there is actually a little Hidden Falls on the other side of the field:
There are also Hidden Chiggers.
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Our stupid trash cabinet has been on a steady decline for years, and in the past couple of months, it became impossible to repair. The door hinge wouldn’t hold or stay adjusted for longer than a day. I made a terrible bracket to help, but it was no good. The door has been hanging at a listless angle for a loooong time. It didn’t help that if the cabinet door was open and you also opened the dishwasher door, they would catch on each other and further wreck the whole system.
I ordered one of those pull-out rail systems that attaches directly to the door and the whole shebang slides out, and last night I decided it was time to install it.
That was not smart. Do not begin a project when you are ready to go to bed.
The installment was smooth, but the instructions were ‘unclear’. I had to unscrew the base and move everything back about an inch.
It was kind of downhill from there. I put bolts on backwards, forgot to take the protective backing off the double-sided tape and had trouble getting the door to hold still while I was screwing it to the bracket. After much huffing, Lloyd looked up from his reading and asked if I needed help.
I said ‘no’.
He read the situation correctly and came over to hold the door still for me. It was all done. We cleaned up, put tools away…
… closed the door…. and it was crooked. Dang it!!! Not exactly the same angle as before, but enough to make me mad. I gave up and wrote my cranky post.
In the clear light of morning, I adjusted it and now it is much better.
The end.