Summer 2011

Yes, its time for a random picture slide show!


This summer we went camping for a few days in the White Mountains. While we were there we went to Story Land and then on a nature hike to some falls. I enjoyed the nature hike up until Gwen stepped in dog poop again. I think she looks for it.

We had some tickets for the zoo. The stone park zoo to be exact. It is very small and the kids were disappointed at the selection of animals.

We have a tradition where you can choose whatever you want for your birthday dinner. Gwen asked for "Hardware Store Pizza" That would be C&S next to the hardware store. So we had her birthday right there. We brought a cake and opened presents.

Morgan on the other hand had a sleep over with a boat load of girls meant not much sleeping took place. They danced the night away to Michael Jackson. I allowed Morgan to blast over the house speaker system and I set up a strob light.

King Richard's Faire

King Richard's Faire is done up like a medival fair, so there are people in ye olde timey clothes, there are period activities and entertainment. By no means are they aiming for accuracy, but rather how to make money...I mean making sure everyone has a good time. They encourage people to come in period clothing which I thought would be cool but I was out voted. I enjoyed myself but I did have two compliants.

One: The ye olde latrin was a little too authentic I thought (smell wise). They were bathrooms in trailers.

Two: The food tickets. You have to buy food tickets. Each ticket is 50 cents which you must buy in 5 dollar increments and then you redeem these tickets for food. No refunds on un-used tickets and that is what annoyed me as it was darn near impossible to work it out so you used all of them.

Once we did finally get our food it was awesome. I had a turkey leg, honey meed, hard cider and yard of ale. Strangly the yard of ale came in a container that was less then a yard tall. Perhaps yard sticks were shorter back then.

I highly recommend it.

Master Bedroom Remodel

This summer's major project was to remodel the master bedroom. When I say master bedroom I mean the room I sleep in. It's not big nor has a bathroom attached. It does have a small walk-in closet so I guess that's something. I never understood the need to have a master bath - just another toilet to clean up and the kids still manage to find you when you're in there.

I took a week off from work and in that week I demo'd the room, insulated, re-wired, hung drywall and got most of the mudding done. So you'd think we moved back into the room the week after then right? Not so much. It's amazing how the last hurtle is always the hardest. It took several weekends more to finish up the trim, and paint. We still did not install the carpet. I'm not doing that. I've installed carpet only once - it was hell. The plan is to change out all the doors covered in lead paint on the second floor then replace the carpet in the hallway, stairs and bedroom.