House Update

We're doing some work to the house to get ready for lil' squirt. The main jobs are . . .

Taking off the old paint because it looked like this:



Currently, it looks something like this:



Neighbors have been asking "What happened to your paint", I usually just tell them it's summer and our house is shedding.

Also, I had a couple buddies over to help replace some wood on the dormer because it was struggling:


Well . . . . so Charlie was on the roof, taking of the old boards and I was down on the ground holding the ladder and being the superintendent and Kevin is actually doing real work:



So Charlie asked for one of the boards back and without thinking that you shouldn't throw sharp, pointy, lead-paint-ridden items at your friends . . . I did just that and:

Whoops. I felt bad for minutes. He said Kelly had to pick out shards of wood circa 1895 for 30 minutes once he got home. The doctors think they can still save the leg.



[On a side note; Charlie, if they do have to cut off your leg, there are two obvious pluses: 1) You would probably shoot more ducks with only one leg this year than you did with two legs last year and 2) You could get a peg leg for all the ECU home games. Aaaaaargh!]



So last night, Jeff, Warren, Kevin, and Charlie came over for small group and helped me out. Jeff and Warren were on window scraping patrol, Kevin was the shop-vac technician, I did misc. items and Charlie supervised. The Keystones and Coors made it seem like less work and more play, especially when we decided to set up the halogen lights, mow the turf, and set up the washers set. Team Pottworth romped Team Sassitage (11-4) but then fell to Team Smithasser in an extra innings nail biter (14-12).

Nice socks Charlie; strong to quite strong.