the maribeth house has finally sold!!! we closed on december 28, 2007 and are out of it for good.

it was kinda odd, but the house showed over 55 times and then we got 3 bids in a few days. one was right and we took it and they wanted to close really quickly (no complaints here). so that was a real relief to both ruthie and i.

let's see, josh is about to start a course in emergency medical technician (emt), david is in israel on a trip called birthright with amy and jon has immersed himself in yet another sports activity. he is now on the wrestling team at richardson high.

i also had some fun playing around with my new "fisheye lens"...

this is a picture of our new kitchen at the glen cove house. i saw a tutorial online the other day about how you could get a cheap fisheye lens to work with a compact digital camera.

it really works!

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it was pretty simple to put together. the ingredients are 1) one of those small door viewers (you know, the type you have in an apartment door) 2) the cap from a target prescription bottle (check to make sure it fits over the camera lens) 3) a drill to drill a hole in the target cap...that's it

you just stick the whole strange looking thing over the lens and have fun. i have gotten some unusual and bizarre photos with this contraption. try it.

it's been a while since i have had a moment to post anything here.

this weekend we finally did something we have been talking about for months...we cleaned out our garage. i know, it's not really earth shattering.

but it really is nice to park the cars in the garage. our garage has been a construction zone for months now and it took a good 5 hours to get this all cleared out and cleaned up.

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well, the work is almost finished in the kitchen and it is almost time to start cooking again.

today the kitchen sink and the dishwasher were put in and this past week has seen the kitchen floor, the counter tops and the back splash all finished.

yippee.

the cabinets look great and tuesday the oven and range get installed and we are in business.

it has been a good long time living in the new house and waiting for this kitchen to be finished.

oh yeah, we also put together a good part of our bedroom closet this past weekend too.

we are almost done with the renovations on the kitchen and the breakfast nook at our new house on glen cove in richardson. the cabinets have been ordered and should be in soon, possibly this coming weekend.

we decided to tear out most everything and start from scratch. those ugly corner cabinets in the breakfast nook just had to go!

the before and after images. the two in the thumbnail are the before and there are comparison side-by-side images when you see the larger image.

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a short while back it rained really hard (while we had a load of furniture moving to the other house of course) and after the move and still during the heavy rain i caught these shots of david and jon goofing off in the field across the street.

they were sorta wrestling and it was pretty funny to watch.

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