I think I was in the 8th grade the first time that I went roller skating. I remember how frustrating it was to be bobbling around trying to stand up and not fall on my butt and to see all these little kids (maybe 5 or so) zipping around like they'd been skating all of their lives.

Fast forward 20+ years and change the location to the ice rink.

Here's my 2 boys. Stevie's 6 and Trev's 4. Stevie had 6 weeks...

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WE'RE IN!!!

What a week. The building inspector man was here last Tuesday and gave us the go ahead to move on in.

We've got the man building the deck this week off the sliding glass door and the gutter man called tonight to say he was going to be here tomorrow, but with the deckman in the way, he's going to postpone gutter work until I call him.

Still no phone or television here... For $7.97 at Walmart today, a 50 foot phone cord attached to another cord...

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well, not really but sort of!!

They are finished with everything on the main level, with the exception of putting the screens in the windows. Honestly, I don't know what they are waiting for on that

~The carpets are in.....
~all the doors have been put back on the frames.
~The nail holes on all the door frames have been filled in with putty.
~All the trash (empty boxes, etc)has been cleaned up
~Tools are all removed from...

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well, not literally on. lol But most of my news today is furnace/wood stove related.

We heard from the people that came to look at the hot air furnace the other night and they are going to buy it from us. We dropped the price a little more than we wanted to, but we really wanted to get it sold. So yee haw on that!!!

We also had 2 really old stoves down in the basement. We loaded them into the truck this morning and drove them to a guy that restores antique stoves. ...

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A day ahead of schedule WOO HOO

The boys and I left at 9:30 this morning to run some errands this morning and we got home just after noon. As usual we drove in our yard via my mom's driveway and through the garden, since our driveway has a honking hole in it near the well. I opened up the door and heard something tapping. Lo and behold when I peeked around the corner, there on my front lawn stands a beautiful newly installed utility pole.

You have no idea...

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