Never a Dull Moment

Fire @ 1131 E Thoman

Never a Dull moment!

We awoke to the sound of sirens in our neighborhood about 1:25 last Saturday morning. The house next door was on fire.
The house was in flames with smoke and fire coming out of the windows. It seems to be a real possibility that the blaze was set by an arsonist. The house was torched 1.5 years ago in August '04 and had been partially repaired and then let sit still for over a year.

We don't know if it will be repaired again.

Sugar Smile

You may have missed the story that goes with the 1/31/06 post, "Eden's grandparents."

Here you will see the shot a little closer and cropped to highlight Eden.

It was late 12/29/05 & we were preparing to leave the Thomsen's.
"Let's not miss this opportunity to catch a shot of Eden with her grandparents."

Eden was getting tired, but her smart daddy, Troy,
found a quick fix to Eden's late night fatigue.
As we prepared a "photo op" Troy stuck his finger into the sugarbowl
and promptly slipped into Eden's mouth. "Wow, Daddy-O!

You can see the pleasure on her face in this shot.


Can you say, "Sugar Daddy!" ???

Birthday Girl!

Dawn had a birthday yesterday...

I found 14 Roses (Red & Yellow), fixed her supper
(roast beef/carrots/onions/potatoes in the crockpot)
[our seminarian Christy made the salad]
and we celebrated her birthday before I went to work last night.

As for the sweatshirt - Dawn is no Bum!

Away with the Old & Horray for the New

We ended February with an end of ownership of two tired cars. The '82 GMC Suburban was old enough to drink & it did, diesel that is, & the '90 Caprice Wagon was aging too. My college roommate, Tim H. once remarked, "Rob, you're the last owner of your cars!" Someone else once offered the following wisdom, "Never buy a car from a blessed man--the blessing might not follow the car!"

At any rate, the dealership gave us a little cash in trade for our two old vehicles and we bought the White '99 Chevy Suburban (foreground) with the money we had in our car sock. --That's the best way to buy a car... drive old ones while you sock away payments to your sock fund... when the "sock" gets tight, count it... if it is enough... then it is time to buy. We bought.

[It's so nice to never have had a car payment in our lifetime.]