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New camera = more pictures

We have had our new camera for a week, and I have taken a few pictures with it (literally, just 30 or so). I uploaded them in super low quality to Tadych.us for you to enjoy.

Start here with the boys, and then hit the next button to see what the most requested game currently being played is.

Enjoy, and don’t forget: If you ever want a full quality picture, or a printed one, please let me know and I will be happy to push that out to you!

Put a pool on the roof

On Saturday, I helped put a pool on the roof. In some sort of terms, anyway.

My father-in-law lost a 10 foot by 3 foot section of shingles from his roof during the blizzard. Well, it is too cold to get new shingles up (you want it to be warm, so they won’t bend and crack), so the temporary fix was to nail down some sheet metal.

It just so happens, in my father-in-law’s goal to never throw anything away that might be useful several years from now, that he had the metal side wall from the old pool still taking up space in storage. So, we spent Saturday afternoon on the roof, fitting pieces of the puzzle into the whole in the roof.

In all honesty, the task at hand seemed much worse than it actually was. That being said, the hardest part is yet to come, and that is properly fixing the roof when the weather is warm enough to support such an endeavor.

Photos and Movies, what a treat…

Wow, do I have a treat for you! First, I have uploaded a bunch of pictures from January and February, from Gus’s birthday up through the water main break (today). Check them all out here! (titles and captions under each photograph, an extra bonus just for you)

But of course, I am not done yet. I took a second to load a couple of movies too. You will have to adventure out to my channel on YouTube to glance at these, but I guarantee you will not be disappointed!

Waterslide
Cotton Eye Joe

What is that rumbling?

Do you hear that rumbling coming from my basement? No? Well that is good. If you go in my basement, then you will definitely notice it. It is the sound of rocks being polished!

For Christmas, Gus got a rock tumbler, and for 5 days now, it has been churning away at making plain dull rocks into “jewelry quality gems.” We finished phase 1 last night, which used the course grit. Now we are into phase 2, which uses the fine grit. This phase lasts almost three weeks! After that finishes, phase 3 only lasts for a couple of days, and is the polishing part. Then we do whatever we do with our new gems (make jewelry, throw them at each other, or put them in a box and forget about them).

Gus was excited when he saw how much the stones had changed in the past few days. I am curious to know, once this whole process is over, if he will want to do it again?