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What A Difference A Door Makes

Before After

Just in time for the early spring weather, our new storm doors were installed a few weeks ago. Oh wait, we are supposed to get a big snow storm tomorrow----nothing like a return on an investment!

 

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Hello Charlie

We get the set! Number two is a boy. I didn't know Paulie wanted a boy until the most recent doctors appointment. When I asked him why he hadn't mentioned his wish to me, he said "I didn't want to be 'that guy'". He was totally "that guy" when he threw his arms up in the air touchdown style in the ultrasound room.

We both agree, it's not about having a boy, it's the thrill of having the set and never again having to field the question: "So, are you going to try for another?"

 

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Half Way There

Before/After

More progress! The toilet, medicine cabinet, light fixture and sink are complete. That is technically a half bath---I'm totally thrilled!

Just the shower tiling (and redoing the shower surround build out that was done incorrectly) remains. I give it another year.

 

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Adventures Great and Small (and a little smelly)

I miss Miss Ruby. She was my buddy for road trips, grand adventures and grocery runs for more than twelve years. Savannah, France, Portland and Milwaukee. Sunny sidewalk cafes, huge coastal cliffs, drizzly west coast streets, vast Midwest cornfields, woody campgrounds... Ruby was always with me. This past year she was fading and uncomfortable; I'm glad we opted for perhaps a little sooner rather than later. But there are days when I really wish she was still here in her stinky chair. Or as Viv said "I can still smell Ruby over here".

 

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