This morning on the way to work the head gaskets on the truck went out while I was on the inter state. I pulled off and tried to call Katie, she did not hear her phone so I called one of my co workers who lives out close to where the truck made it to.He was just getting on the interstate so he said he would stop and pick me up. Made it to work, ( Read more... )

After 4 trips to the parts store the truck how has working power steering for the first time since I have owned it. The first trip was to buy the steering gear, the 2nd trip was to get a puller to remove the Pitman arm from the old gear, the 3rd trip was to return the core, and get a belt for the pump and power steering fluid, the 4th trip was for ( Read more... )

So it snowed here on Sunday March 1. We probably got around 3 or 4 inches. it was enough to cause problems for the power company. Our power went out at a little after 5 pm on Sunday, and i went out to the shed and got out the Coleman lanterns and heater and also started bringing in fire wood. At around 7 we heard some trees falling so I grabbed ( Read more... )

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Katie has reawakened my thirst for puzzles. She bout me blacksmith puzzles for Christmas (Big Shot, Double Trouble, and Sneaky Pete), since then I have bought 3 more ( Self-Restraint, Wise Guy, and Big Kahuna) and a large display carousel.  I already owned Lyon's Loop and Iron Maiden, although these are of lesser quality than the  6 of the new ones ( Read more... )

it was not as much fun as it sounds like.  I was taking down all of my fencing in Alabama so that I can put up a fence at the new place here in Ga ( Read more... )

I talked to my momon the phone tho night trying to figure out our christmas schedule.  Katie's family is going to come to the house the day after christmas, Katie wants to go to church on Christmas eve, and us to have a quite Christmas at home.  SO I was trying to talk my mom into coming for the day after Christmas, which she asiad she would not be ( Read more... )

miriam got moved from NICU to the Special Care Nursery tonight.  She is being given 1cc of breast  milk every 8 hours, and she is tolerating them well.  To date she has pulled out her IV 3 times, and her feeding tube once ( Read more... )

I go to go see the baby a little while ago, and here are the first pictures I got of her.


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We just got to talk to the NICU nurse, and Miriam is breathing room air, no extra oxygen, but she is wearing a cpap to help keep her lungs from sticking together when she exhales.  The nurse told us that when we come over to nicu later today that the baby is can be held.