Hello again.
Golly gee willakers Wally, it's been a while. I guess I got out of the habit of posting. What to say... hmmmm. I think I will make this an update of life's goings on rather than any funny stories. It's been a very busy spring. In March the boy and I spent 8 days in Wellsboro visiting my sister, her husband and two kids. It wasn't really a pleasure trip - I spent most of the time helping Sis and my Mom with odds and ends around their respective houses. Sis had a number of electrical things that needed taking care of, such as hanging light fixtures and fixing things that didn't work. My Mom recently bought a house and we tiled a tub surround and I hung some fixtures for her. I knew going in that I would be busy - that's the main reason for going. The boy had fun with his two cousins and got to see snow for the first time. Overall, it was a really fun trip.
Same old projects going on here at home. The week before I went to Penna. we had our house painted on the outside. There is still more work to be done. I've haven't been attacking the punch list like I should. Gutters, touch up painting, some trim work etc. I'll get to it - I putter around but, I really need to just get at it and get it done.
My contracting work has really slowed down and that's okay. I've done some service work and have roughed in a fairly large basement. Now, I'm just waiting on the painters and trim guys to finish so I can go back in and finish up my end. Not having a lot of work has been good right now because the wife has been extremely busy with her career. She has recently changed projects (temporarily) and has been under a lot of stress with that. Her company is launching a new project and she is quite involved. The vendor that is helping them is located in the Dominican Republic - so as you can guess, she's going to be spending a lot of time down there. She's been putting in a lot of hours and it's a good thing that someone is around the house to hold things down. She is leaving tomorrow morning for a whirlwind trip to Germany, Italy and the UK - meeting with prospective clients for another project she's been working on. She'll be gone for eight days and I'm hoping the boy and I fair well with it. Her trips to the Dominican are going to be ongoing for most of the summer and into the fall - up to two weeks at a time. I don't know if anything will come of it but, she said the company is willing to pay for the family to go down there over the 4th of July for a week. If it comes about I will take advantage of it. I'm going to schedule some cigar factory tours... cha, cha, chaaa!
The boy has three weeks left of school. Good God! I can't believe how the time has passed. It seems as if he just started. He has really enjoyed it but, unfortunately he will not be returning - at least not there. It was a great program but, our needs are different. I think we're going to place him in a daycare for two full days a week. The church program we have been sending him to is just three and a half hours a day. We have found that having someone pick him up and then watching him the rest of the day has been very frustrating as the caregivers are either sick or can't come for one reason or another. Knowing that this is the situation has prevented me from taking on the work that has been offered to me. Anyhow, we've been checking out various daycares near us and hopefully we'll make a decision soon.
As far as other things in our lives, well, let's see. We have started a large garden. It's located at a friends house out in the country and it's been a lot of fun and a lot of work! We started working on it about a month ago. We tilled up the soil and added some amendments, such as horse manure and granite dust. A few weeks ago we tilled again and planted. It's been very fulfilling watching the plants come alive. The boy and I go out every few days and putter around for two to three hours - watering and planting. I have a fence that has been started and I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to irrigate the whole thing. It's fairly large for greenhorns like us, but we're learning a lot. We're going the Organic route... no chemicals. I can't wait to taste the corn and the tomatoes...
We're still talking about selling our house and moving to a bigger one - who knows? The housing market here is in a slump, so now is not the time to sell anyway... I guess we'll see what happens later on this year.
I need to download and post some pics - I've got some from my trip to Penna., gardening and my beer brewing - which by the way came out great... if I say so myself.
Same old projects going on here at home. The week before I went to Penna. we had our house painted on the outside. There is still more work to be done. I've haven't been attacking the punch list like I should. Gutters, touch up painting, some trim work etc. I'll get to it - I putter around but, I really need to just get at it and get it done.
My contracting work has really slowed down and that's okay. I've done some service work and have roughed in a fairly large basement. Now, I'm just waiting on the painters and trim guys to finish so I can go back in and finish up my end. Not having a lot of work has been good right now because the wife has been extremely busy with her career. She has recently changed projects (temporarily) and has been under a lot of stress with that. Her company is launching a new project and she is quite involved. The vendor that is helping them is located in the Dominican Republic - so as you can guess, she's going to be spending a lot of time down there. She's been putting in a lot of hours and it's a good thing that someone is around the house to hold things down. She is leaving tomorrow morning for a whirlwind trip to Germany, Italy and the UK - meeting with prospective clients for another project she's been working on. She'll be gone for eight days and I'm hoping the boy and I fair well with it. Her trips to the Dominican are going to be ongoing for most of the summer and into the fall - up to two weeks at a time. I don't know if anything will come of it but, she said the company is willing to pay for the family to go down there over the 4th of July for a week. If it comes about I will take advantage of it. I'm going to schedule some cigar factory tours... cha, cha, chaaa!
The boy has three weeks left of school. Good God! I can't believe how the time has passed. It seems as if he just started. He has really enjoyed it but, unfortunately he will not be returning - at least not there. It was a great program but, our needs are different. I think we're going to place him in a daycare for two full days a week. The church program we have been sending him to is just three and a half hours a day. We have found that having someone pick him up and then watching him the rest of the day has been very frustrating as the caregivers are either sick or can't come for one reason or another. Knowing that this is the situation has prevented me from taking on the work that has been offered to me. Anyhow, we've been checking out various daycares near us and hopefully we'll make a decision soon.
As far as other things in our lives, well, let's see. We have started a large garden. It's located at a friends house out in the country and it's been a lot of fun and a lot of work! We started working on it about a month ago. We tilled up the soil and added some amendments, such as horse manure and granite dust. A few weeks ago we tilled again and planted. It's been very fulfilling watching the plants come alive. The boy and I go out every few days and putter around for two to three hours - watering and planting. I have a fence that has been started and I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to irrigate the whole thing. It's fairly large for greenhorns like us, but we're learning a lot. We're going the Organic route... no chemicals. I can't wait to taste the corn and the tomatoes...
We're still talking about selling our house and moving to a bigger one - who knows? The housing market here is in a slump, so now is not the time to sell anyway... I guess we'll see what happens later on this year.
I need to download and post some pics - I've got some from my trip to Penna., gardening and my beer brewing - which by the way came out great... if I say so myself.
posted by JKaminski | 5/04/2007 01:42:00 PM
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