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Joshua on March 23rd, 2008

So the cable is back.  Either by another crazy coincidence or the fact that I ran a hundred feet of new cable our TV service has been restored. In my defense I repeat:  The cable was run across the top of the ground through my flower bed.  Amber spoke to the neighbors and confirmed that […]

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Joshua on February 13th, 2008

At the end of another nice Texas winter day (70-75F most days lately) we went to the park. We played and Wesley got tired and hot. So he sat down at the base of a tree to catch a rest and a little shade. Good idea. When we caught up to him he said “Ants!” […]

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Joshua on January 23rd, 2008

Along with the tiling project we’ve had a few other projects mostly electrical.  First we put in a new thermostat (thanks to my dad).  It has about a million options, but is frankly darn cool with it’s touch screen and all.  A couple of hours of fiddling through the settings and we once again had […]

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Joshua on December 12th, 2007

Call me old fashioned, but I when I hear “tree lighting” I think of a tree (preferably a large evergreen of some kind) with lights on it (preferably in strands that wrap around the tree branches). It probably stems from growing up in Sedro-Woolley which has forever placed a large tree in the center of […]

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