Painting, Painting and more Painting
Hello my name is Rick and it has been about a month since my last post. “Hello Rick, welcome to bloggers anonymous”. At least it seems I have developed an adversion to posting blog updates so please forgive me.
Lets start with a quick recap since the last post. Over Labor day we went to visit my father in northern Wisconson. While there we swam in the lake, moved his dock, chopped down a few trees and generally had a great time enjoying the last few days of warm weather. A quick funny story about downing one of the trees.. Since this particular tree was leaning over my dad’s wooden steps we tied a rope to the middle of the tree so that I could direct the tree away from the steps. As the tree fell I was pushing on the rope, the tree turned to fall the correct way and the rope went slack. This caused me to start to fall down, which then caused the tree to fall a different way, which caused the rope to quickly tighten up, which finally cased me to go flying. Humorous for everyone involved except me!
After that it was time for Brandon to start 1st grade. Tuesday the 4th we walked him off to the bus and he left for the day. He came home with homework almost every day since. He is officially a student now.
The 6th we started painting our kitchen. We, by we I mean Danith :), picked a darker red shade to help contrast the tile and wood. After edging for a few hours Danith, he sister Megan, and I painted the kitchen. This was a bit harder due to all the painting above the cabinets. But after a hard days work we got the primer down along with the first coat of paint. Sunday morning Danith and I touched up the few spots that needed touching up. I was hesitant of the color at first but have come to like it.
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This past weekend we continued our painting project. It started with a darker brown color above our fireplace which Danith did while Brandon was at his bowling league. I did not mention he started his first bolwing league. :). When Brandon and I returned we started in on the “golden mushroom” color for the dining room and livingroom. Another full Saturday of painting later and we once again had a good looking living room.
Sunday morning consisted of some quick touch-ups, moving furniture back and removing the painters tape.
Sunday afternoon we went to Ammodt’s Apple Orchard to get our yearly apple brats, apple wine and apples. This was a quick trip as the weather turned on us while we were there.
Nothing more to say other than my Green Bay Packers are 2-0 with their new QB Aaron Rogers! Go pack.
No Internet at home
At some point I will have to upload many pictures and actually write another blog post. But until I have the time to do that I will just write a quick update.
This weekend my cable modem died a horrible death. According to Comcast it has been slowly dying for the last few weeks from what they could see in their logs. My family easily forgets what the internet brings to the house and how much we rely upon it.
Brandon, who up till this weekend has not really used the computers much at all this summer, wanted desperately to play with his web kins. He even stated last night that they will probably die since he will not have time to feed them now.
All of our TiVo’s are complaining about not being able to update their television guides and both Danith and I needing to connect into work this weekend and not being able to. But we did enjoy some spare time to watch the Nanny Diaries and have a bottle of wine.
So today over lunch I am off to replace the cable modem and next week after Labor day Comcast is coming out to upgrade the modem to the next model which offers higher speeds. 50 Megabytes down and 5 up, I will have to do some speed tests once they install that and see what it is in reality.
Otherwise Brandon, Danith and I got our hair cut this weekend in preparation for family pictures coming up soon (As well as school pictures for BG). Saturday night we got out to see the Dweebs playing at Woodbury days and watched the fireworks put to live music. It was a good show.
This Wednesday we are heading to the State Fair so hopefully I will be able to get my pictures uploaded by then and post a good update before our Labor day vacation in Wisconsin.
