Movie!

I don't usually recommend movies but I saw one this weekend that was really really amazing. "Lars and the Real Girl" is a great movie - in Tacoma it's only playing at the Grand (which if you haven't been to you should go anyway)

It's about a guy who has some social problems and orders an "anatomically correct" doll as a girlfriend - it's actually way more than that - really funny, and surprisingly sad in parts, but really really good.

Go see it

Jb

4-day weekend - housework and homework...

Thanksgiving weekend is a time to get caught up on fun stuff and not so fun stuff...

After the wind storm a few weeks ago I realized replacing the east side of my fence in the back yard has moved up to priority number one for projects around the house. With all the fun I've had with the neighbors lately I decided to extend the fence along the side of the house all the way to the front of the house (used to just cover the back yard). This will also give me a built-in kennel for Asia which is nice.

Before any of that can happen I have to get rid of a holly tree in the front yard. I've been talking about getting rid of it for a while, I noticed recently it's been creeping into the neighbors yard and it's really just a pain to mow around.




I borrowed a chainsaw from dad and had it all cleaned up in about an hour - you can see I went for the really manly saw, a true instrument of death for any yard pest. It actually was really nice for dealing with the "tree" - someone has chopped down the holly tree a long time ago but never killed the stump so I was really dealing with a bunch of different little trees all woven together into one mess.

All this and I'm not even half way through the weekend! One project down, a million still to go...

Finally - a door

Well the day has finally come - after several months of being incredibly busy with work/school/life I finally had some time to work on the house. Of course anyone who knows me of late knows the #1 most requested remodeling project - a door on the bathroom.

Let's all take a minute to recognize the Ikea queen size top sheet that served me so well since August. We saw a lot together - bucket parties (and their aftermath), the stomach flu, pumpkin carving.

Needless to say Leslye is lots happier - but of course it's not quite done yet. I still have to trim around the door so you can't see through on both sides - I'll get to that next weekend...