Had some ickies removed from here there and yonder by the surgeon. Only the one from the top of my head was deemed of import to send for a biopsy. Even that one he said was undoubtedly ok. The underarm spots HURT and no damned pain meds. They're getting harder and harder to come by legally. Go in next Tuesday for the biopsy results and another ( Read more... )

Eldest son has been promoted to Commander and he and his loverly wife are expecting their 3rd child. Life is indeed good for them. We just don't get to see them as often as we like and it looks like they'll be in Italy for several more years. Oh well, it was like that with me when I was in the military with a young family too. We are very happy ( Read more... )

As if such things could ever happen. He says no hernia, so that's darned good news. He also said to take Imodium more often to stave off the IBS symptoms when I eat out. So, that was good too. Then he said, "But it has been 5 years since your last colonoscopy ( Read more... )

Mah friend Dave would tell me I'm werkin' too hard, but the latest was I power washed the deck on top and underneath last Friday. It worked great underneath and got rid of all the old mold. Looks like new there. On the top it didn't remove the remnants of my "cheapo contractor's" bad deck staining job from last year, but today Katie and I ( Read more... )

We are the proud owners of a new "rood" (I mistyped roof in the note I sent to the real estate agent). Of course we are $7K poorer now too, and we won't get the roof money back when we sell since the price hasn't changed. Hopefully in this crappy market it will be helpful finding potential buyers. We are doing a special for 4th of July weekend ( Read more... )

Hope your birthday was a great success and you got lots of cake to eat (and maybe a Scotch to drink).

yf,
Tom

After spending over $10K in the last year on home upgrades with a contractor and even painting the interior ourselves (well actually Katie did it), now we need a roof. Got the first estimate today at just a tad over $5K (but any sheathing will be added time and materials). Should get a 2nd estimate tomorrow and I'm hoping it will be better (but ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about how busy we've been doing things on the house, traveling to El Paso to see our youngest off to Iraq, doing our regular camping stuff, and how tired of "doing" I am. I wonder how we ever found time to WERK for a living? I don't think I could fit it in right now ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like we won't be moving soon after all. The buyer cancelled the contract via voice mail today with the real estate agent. Of course that's not really a cancellation because it's not in writing which means we can't get the house back on the multiple listing service until the buyer does what he's supposed to do ( Read more... )

Well, we made the trip to and from El Paso with little difficulty. Found we liked traveling on US Highways instead of Interstates for two reasons: 1) fewer trucks blowing us off the road and 2) what a great way to see the country ( Read more... )