Posted in Projects on Saturday, January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From 2009 Misc
The infamous day the water stopped started like any other Friday morning. The jmonsters were up and at’em at 6:00: 6:20 for the Tallone, he needed a cattle prod to get his lazy bones a moving. Daddy was slipping back into his drill sergeant role barking orders to get things tight and brush [...]
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Posted in Projects on Sunday, August 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mommy and Daddy finished up the first (prototype) build of Jake’s Chair. This is the first project since Daddy bought his new table saw and router table (while mommy was away). After much cursing about the band saw (that is now on its way to the rescue mission) and spending the morning sanding away all [...]
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Posted in Projects on Saturday, March 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today we put in a rain barrel to help with the drought and support a good cause. The Davidson County Community College Zoo and Aquarium Club were selling 60 gallon rain barrels so Mommy and Tallmonster drove to the college to pick one up. After our usual hemming and hawing we decided to put it [...]
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Posted in Projects on Friday, February 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are some pictures of the finished painting projects throughout the house. The hall and stairs are two shades of green while we went back to yellow for the kitchen. Daddy likes having a bright, cheerful kitchen (must help him get going in the morning).The electric blue room is now the darker shade of green [...]
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Posted in Projects, Smallmonster, Tallmonster on Sunday, January 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The jmonsters have been asking when we could get make a fire pit in the backyard. They have always wanted one and now that we have the space it was time. The County lifted the fire ban so we decided to head over to the Farmer’s Market since Daddy saw a fire pit there that [...]
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Started to work on the garden along the back of the house. Removing sod we realized that the wheelbarrow didn’t make the trip South. We decided that we should get a trailer for the tractor instead. The jmonsters were very hip on the idea so they can go for rides around the yard. We are [...]
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Posted in Projects, Tallmonster on Sunday, November 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tallmonster’s room was next on Mommy’s painting list. The colors that he picked out were Planetarium Blue (or as mommy called it blue painter tape) for three walls and Bubblegum Red for the other wall. Mommy got to work on Friday afternoon prepping the room and covering all the molding with painter’s tape. The [...]
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Posted in Projects on Saturday, November 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Mommy has been in a painting mood, so she decided to tackle the boys bathroom next. Opting for the color Rushing Rapids, we headed out to Lowes to get the paint and a few other things. Our few other things ended up being a cart full of work. While Mommy taped and prepped for [...]
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Posted in Projects on Friday, November 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
According to smallmonster, Daddy doesn’t work anymore. Since he was on vacation the first week we were here and now working from home he sees a lot more of him. Mommy decided it was time to get his office in order so that he had a quiet place to go when the kids get [...]
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The jmonsters got an old box from Uncle Jeff and had a ball out back rastling and playing army guys for a couple of hours. By far the most played with “toy” of the Christmas Season. Fancee Dancee even got sucked into the fray. She was having a tough time controlling herself long enough for [...]
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