sitting in bristol waiting for the rain to pass.

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oh say can Jussi

"i want da gold, give me da gold"....and some instructions how to!

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horray! the siding is all up and done and i only havee to do the soffit now.

made it to kopps today on my trip back from a supplier. yes this is the custard place recently shown on the food network.

another game and its bobbled head night. woo hoo!

seriously people. every loaf?!

made it to the 3rd period tonight for free. woo hoo

Hurricanes Game

So a buddy of mine let me have his Carolina Hurricanes tickets for a nice Sunday 5:00 game vs the Boston Bruins. We beat them pretty good and I've never set this low before for a hockey game and there is a lot more going on that I ever thought there was before. It was pretty awesome.

Before the game started. Clearly you can see the NFL playoffs were going on today because the place was empty.


Start of the 2nd period. Clearly I need to find the white balance adjustment on this camera because the ice was white, not blue.



The MVP's of the game. Cam Ward the goalie for all that don't know. That's also Stormy, the mascot there waving the Hurricane warning flag. He's a pig because this is NC, the home of BBQ.

Some Shed Pics

Here are some random sheds pics during it progress before the locked up incident.

This is after we got the rafters set, didn't take long and I just couldn't figure it out. Thankfully somebody else could and that somebody came over to help me.

Here we are putting all the OSB on the trusses to get the roof in. This went quicker than I thought it would.

This is after cutting all the OSB for the roof and applying the paper the next day, It wasn't the warmest days we've had. We also got the rest of the sheathing on the front and back the evening before. That really made for a much more sturdy building.

Rockin and Rollin on the shingles. Had somebody else come over for this one. Once we got a rhythm going I was setting and nailing and he was cutting. We busted this out in half a day and that was probably slow.


Here she sets with the door installed. Uh yes, this was the day after the prison break. We've since got the fascia installed and a gutter so now all it needs is siding and power and I can actually start moving stuff into it.

trapped.

me in my prison waiting a break out with hack saw blade from the outside.

December Disney Pics, much better ones

In absolutely no particular order here are some pics from an actual camera not just a cell phone.

This is us in front of the tree at Wilderness Lodge. A Disney photographer took the picture. Not to bad if I could smile on command like Mandy does.


The Osborne family spectacle of dancing lights. It gets cooler every year.


Chocolate scene of a fire place at Boardwalk I think.

Us in our best Rock and Roll pose on Rockin' Roller Coaster.

The gingerbread house at the Grand Floridian. They sell little ginger bread houses out of it, or you can just buy a shingle.

Required view of the castle.

Mandy is always so happy to eat at Pizza Planet.

It was a bit foggy this morning. So foggy they weren't running the boats all the way to the Magic Kingdom. It did run as far the Contemporary then we walked it. Kind of like loosening up for the day.

A shot of the Pixar sign. It was about as clear as I could get it shooting free hand.

Also a free hand shot of the sorcerers hat from Hollywood Studios

The year in review:

First off, when you were in school, did you stop counting to 10 at the number 9? No, you went to 10. So the decade isn't over. A decade is over, 1999 to 2009 but not 2000 to 2010.

OK, so long story short, year started scary with "lets hope we don't all lose our jobs". Most everybody I work with lost their job in Feb, Mandy got rehired 3 weeks later under a different contract company. We were told at work that we'd have rolling layoffs (oh boy). Mandy's grandmother passed away in March at the age of 95. We went to Disney on our first rolling layoff. We did a huge chunk of landscaping in May and dug a 50' ditch 2' deep during one of these times off. We visited WV more this year than any other thanks to the rolling layoffs. We went on a cruise in July thanks to another layoff, Hawaii in August, Disney in October then Disney again in December. All in all not a bad year honestly. If somebody offers you a job and says we'll cut your pay by 10% but give you 7 weeks off no harm, no foul and still have 2 additional weeks paid vacation and 3 personal days...consider it, you just may find it worth it.

its almost weather tight now. woo hoo!

leaving

on the boat back to wilderness lodge to catch the bus to catch the plane. sad day.

Soarin'

entrance to soarin

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the ginger bread house at the grand floridian

the castle all lit up

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another castle view

middle of the day castle pic