BIG Reader

Andrew reading The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe - WOW! We were blown away how well and fast he was reading it! I didn't do that until the 6th grade!

Sleeping Bananas

Shhhh! Sleeping bananas :-) I think a total of 8 large ones, and a handful of pups.

Trains

Train table now in use! Andrew loved it! Working on Savannah's shelves today.

Wood block

Can you guess what this is? I have one each for Andrew and Savannah to help them play card games. This was Laurie's idea. She had one when she was younger.

Savannah's Cubbie Shelves

Savannah's cubbie shelves for her room - almost done - just need a little more trim and white paint. I'm also going to make some for the basement.

Bad parking

I guess driving a Range Rover gives you permission to park however and wherever you want. Grrrr!

Basement 2

A long way to go, but better than it looked before! The brown carpet is going - getting something brighter. Curtains will hide storage shelves and furnace (and my "resting" bananas) :-)

Basement

The start of Andrew's new train table in our basement :-) We've never used the basement for anything but storage, but, we're going to start using it for a play area for the kids. Not ideal, but they're excited about it!

Yucky Weather!!

BEAUTIFUL weather to work in the last couple of days... YEAH RIGHT!! I spent yesterday morning (Tuesday) digging up bananas at a customer's house and at our house. And of course... it was raining. Getting ready to lay them down to rest for the winter in his/our basement. My customer's bananas came out fairly easy and I was able to carry them to his garage. Ours, however... well, the one that is about 12' tall was heavier than I expected. And, I'm not really sure how I'm going to get it down into our basement. DEFINITELY not by myself, that's for sure. I might have to cut it back... which I really don't want to do.

Most of my duties are almost complete at my customer's houses... There is still more cleanup and winter-prep at each, but it's winding down. Now I'm starting to focus more on developing my tropical business. I'm putting in a bid this Friday at one area business and will be contacting several other businesses by mail over the next month.

Laurie's stress seems to be gradually decreasing... her traveling has stopped and she's back in the classroom again with her students. She's still grading a lot, but not having to stay up so late to do it.

Need to take the kids to school and get my day started. Wednesdays are short days for me... at home with the kids in the afternoon.

Hotel

The fireplace at the hotel Laurie and I stayed at. We spent a lot of time in front of it. Sorry, no whirlpool pictures :-) For a Holiday Inn Express we were impressed. It was a nice one night get-away.

Stockings 3

Savannah's stocking.

Stockings 2

Andrew's stocking.