The Wedding (more)
Here is the whole wedding party.
Jennifer and I:
Exchanging the Vows:
The Rings:
The Families:
The Bride:
Archive for Photos
The Wedding
I’ll have more pictures to post once the photographer gets me the disks with the RAW formats on them but here is one from one of my guests to whet the appetite.
Snow Removal
Snow removal in progress in my backyard after the string of winter storms we’ve had lately. Landlord had to hire this front-loader to clear out the parking situation for me and my neighbors.
You wouldn’t think that spring is just around the corner.
The Nor’easter of 2007
Wow, here it is, the first major winter storm of the season. I had to get some pictures, and its still just getting warmed up, the storm watch from the NWS still has about 20 hours left on it.
Here is looking out the back door at the driveway:
Here is looking out the front window (yes, there is a street there somewhere…):
And here is looking out a side window up the street, looking for some of the neighbor’s houses (seriously, people live over there somewhere:
Free
There is nothing like seeing the work ‘free’ on something that you need or desire in life. No feeling like knowing that you can get something for nothing. Now we all know that this isn’t quite true, you always get what you pay for, and sometimes the payment is not in cash.
Last night, my fiance and I were coming home from walking the trail near the local high school, when we noticed a matching couch and love-seat set sitting on the side of the road in someone’s front yard. On both items there was a sign reading “FREE!”. Well we’ve been going back and forth about not having enough furniture in our living room to entertain, in fact, there was not really enough for us to relax in there ourselves. One small love-seat and an antique rocking chair. So we circled back around the block and pulled up to look at them. It turns out that they were a little worn, but nothing physically wrong with them. They were comfortable and clean. After knocking on the door and confirming with the woman who answered about them I found that they just wanted to get rid of them because they had bought a new living room set. I thanked he and told her we would get them out of her lawn ASAP.
The payment in this case was in physical labor. It turns out that the two items both have 2 built in recliner sections. So they weigh considerably more than your average piece of modern furniture. The couch was probably about 170-200 lbs and the love seat was close to 140. We got them into my father’s truck with some effort and got them to the house just as the rain started. We dropped them into the garage to wait to find out what we were going to do with them.
After cleaning out the living room, moving the old love seat to the sun room, we tried to bring them in through the back door, only to find that it was too narrow. So we ended up carrying them completely around the house in the rain to wedge them into the front door. More heavy lifting, not fun in the rain, and it just highlighted how out of shape I have gotten since leaving the military.
Mix it with the table that Jen just refinished holding the tv and all. Plus all of her masterful decorating. Plus my shelves full of buddhas. Not a bad mix at all. Comfortable and feeling like a home.
Here is the end result, not too bad in my opinion, especially with the price tag $0.00!
April Showers?
April showers bring May flowers…..
Isn’t that the saying? Well I don’t think this is going to help.
Global Warming? Where?
Ice Storm Privacy
This is kinda cool, we are having an ice storm right now and it is turning my windows into privacy screens.
