Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Original Wood Project

Here it is!  Patient Zero of my woodworking creativeness spell.  Lady and I had discussed a possible art center for her many, many, many, ok you get the picture, times.  Once I had Google SketchUp rolling, I could finally properly prepare for the big project.  The other projects were all me practicing the skills for this finishing this one.

It is 4 separate pieces with 4 drawers and adjustable shelving in the hutch!


Our New Home - The Move In

The new apartment with patio and storage closet.
1 day B.T.S...Before The Stuff
Our first visit down to the harbor.
A quite appropriate gecko greeting!
Bring out yer stuff...bring out yer stuff.
Fill 'er up!
The new kitchen, with extra high bar.
Just enough space to take a break.
Our savior...the Loft.  It's been with us 8yrs!
Chillin'!

Farewell 321 Old Course Dr

26' U-haul + A lot of vehicle trips!
We have a fantastic crew of friends!
Shrek was the last man out.
Yeah...we took the piano for a walk!
I'm sure passing folks thought it couldn't get any weirder...
...clearly they hadn't met us! :-)
Piano beats toe every time...ouch!
The piano in its new home!
Somebody worked way too hard that day, so Yahtzee had to supervise her timeout.

Tree Frog Squadron

The tree frogs saying farewell, and thanks for all the pvc homes!

Our Disappearance

Didn't realize it had been quite that long since our last post.  Our life took a few drastic turns over that past few months, and blogging never quite made it to the top of the priority list.  So, let me take you back for a quick trip through our lives since the last post in April...

During the flurry of woodworking at the beginning of April, I got a call from Lockheed Martin for a job interview.  Over the course of April, I received an offer for the position.  I then began work on May 9th.  My title is Mechanical Engineer and I am working with the Cargo Mission Contract 2 dealing with ISS hardware.  I am doing some work with 3D CAD modeling, some work with hardware processing, and a little of this and a little of that.

Our mortgage company was unwilling to work with us to stay in the house after we got the job offer, and so we have subsequently relocated.  We are now in a fantastic 1 bedroom apartment in League City where we don't have to do any of the upkeep and the blue is always blue!  Woot-woot!  We started the move on April 29th and threw in the towel May 4th.  We went from a 4-2-2 house to a 1-1-1 apartment and detached garage.  We have even managed to make everything fit!...mostly.

Finally, over the weekend of our anniversary, we made ourselves take a freakin' break.  We headed to Austin, TX for a weekend "Babymoon" for some R&R before the little guy gets here.  We had an amazing time, and I'll throw some pictures up and more details in a later post.

And, here we are.  Counting down the days until we get to meet our son!

Monday, April 11, 2011

Entertainment Center Addition

Have wanted to get my projector back on the ceiling, instead of angled down on a bunch of 1x2s.  Rather than the $250 ceiling mount, I built a nest for it to rest on.  Ta-Da!


So Many Mangos...

I bought more mangos for Lady, only to find out that the old ones had not been smoothie-fied yet.  A bunch of mangos with nowhere to go, whatever shall I do!  Hello mango salsa!  I sort of winged it for the ingredients and ended up with mango, tomato, onion, cilantro, lime juice, and lemon juice.  Mmm, mmmm, mmm!