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Well, it’s been some time again between posts but the good news is that most of the family room has been drywalled, including the ceiling which we did this weekend.  A word of advice – if you ever hang drywall on the ceiling, rent a drywall lift.  $50 for the weekend from Taylor Rental and… Continue reading Hammer Time!

Okay, as promised more than a while ago, here are some recent photos of Jakob, Lea, and Kokopelli, who has probably not been photographed in some time!

Funny that the grandhog reportedly saw his shadow today, meaning six more weeks of winter.  Around here, it’s been unusually warm and just raw if nothing else.  We did get snow earlier this week but it’s nearly gone; with rain in the forecast, it will likely be washed away by the weekend.  We had every… Continue reading Groundhog Day

Well, the walls in the basement are starting to wrap around the family room and hopefully we’ll be ready to plaster in no time. That’s a long time from now, unfortunately, as we are limited by how often Jeff can find time to get the work done. Luckily, he has plenty of friends who aren’t… Continue reading Progress Is A Good Thing

So Theo Epstein has returned as Red Sox general manager and all is well again in the Boston front office. Jed Hoyer and Ben Cherington, who had been co-GMs since mid-December, were given new assignments as assistant GM and VP of player personnel, respectively. Now Boston needs to get the final two spots in the… Continue reading Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss

Well, some other good news that we completely overlooked… We have Jakob signed up for pre-school this fall. He’ll be going two mornings a week, Monday and Thursday, and he’ll have 11 other classmates. Classes begin one week after Labor Day. So begins the journey!

It was definitely a successful day hanging sheet rock in the basement; Jim and Jeff got two walls completely covered with sheet rock and no one lost any blood doing it. There’s still lots to do but it is amazing how much more “completed” it looks. Jim also proved to be a great help and… Continue reading The Walls Are Closing In…

Good news is that we are finally getting somewhere with the basement project that we’ve been working on for almost a year now. The sheet rock was delivered this morning and Jeff should begin hanging that Saturday with his buddy Jim from work. Today was spent taking care of some of the loose ends, like… Continue reading Rats In The Cellar

Happy Monday! Well, somehow we knew that the Patriots would eventually run out of magic this post-season, but it was disappointing to see them go down in flames on Saturday night in Denver, which seems to have historically been a house of horrors for New England. Not that the Patriots didn’t have the opportunities to… Continue reading A Weekend That Was

If you see Jeff today, first make sure to tell him that the comb-over looks great. Then smile and wish him a Happy Birthday! For those of you curious to know how old he is, just look up the number that Derek Lowe wore when he was with the Red Sox.