Saturday, December 28, 2013

TWO FRIENDS WALKING . . .

TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT.DURING SOME POINT OF THE JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE IN THE FACE.THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING, WROTE IN THE SAND, TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE. THEY KEPT ON WALKING, UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS, WHERE THEY DECIDED TO TAKE A BATH. THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN SLAPPED GOT STUCK IN THE MIRE AND STARTED DROWNING, BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM. AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM THE NEAR DROWNING, HE WROTE ON A STONE: 'TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE'. THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED AND SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND ASKED HIM, 'AFTER I HURT YOU, YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW, YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?' THE FRIEND REPLIED 'WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN IN SAND, WHERE WINDS OF FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY. BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES   SOMETHING GOOD FOR US, WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE WHERE NO WIND CAN EVER ERASE IT'.
LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE. THEY SAY IT TAKES A MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON, AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM, A DAY TO LOVE THEM, BUT THEN, AN ENTIRE LIFE TO FORGET THEM.
SEND THIS TO THE PEOPLE YOU'LL NEVER FORGET. I JUST DID. IF YOU DON'T SEND IT TO ANYONE, IT MEANS YOU'RE IN A HURRY AND THAT YOU'VE FORGOTTEN YOUR FRIENDS. TAKE THE TIME TO LIVE!
DO NOT VALUE THE THINGS YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE, BUT VALUE WHO YOU HAVE KNOWN IN YOUR LIFE! AND IF I HAPPEN TO GET IT BACK, THEN I KNOW MY PLACE IN YOUR LIFE.
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle

Friday, December 27, 2013

CHRISTMAS 2013

 
Christmas Eve with the Nieces & Nephews
Lena, Cathy, Inez, Carol & Laura
 














 
 
 
 
 
Christmas at Our House

Callie and Ora Kay

Patty playing Santa with Inez & Abby watching

Patty

Curtis

Ora Kay

Inez


Callie enjoying one of her presents




































































































Pictures from Paula

Annie, Joe, Bruce & Paula in Jacksonville



Annie & Joe

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

DISNEY WORLD VACATION

Day 1 after a early flight.
 
Anniversary . . . .

Birthday . . .

Goofy's in the house . . . . 
 
Kathy & Inez with Goofy . . . .
 
Don & Kathy
 
Inez, Robbie (Ma) and Kathy on Main St.

Me and Inez at the garden near the Castle

Squirrels at Robbie's feet feeding on crumbs
 

 
 


Thursday, August 15, 2013

All Seasons Sunrooms - Sunroom Addition at Our Home

We bought our sunroom 2/28/13 with the expectation that it would be delivered
and installed in six to eight weeks.
 
Room is delivered 6/4/13
 
 
 
Foundation stared, 6/4/13 
 
 
Concrete poured 6/11/13
 
We have a concrete paio where the room will be.

My Pond, left over from the grading done on 6/11/13.
I still have a pond.
 

Room is uncrated for the first time on 6/27/13.
This crew does not show up again.

 
After two days of construction by the second crew, two walls are up on 7/1/13.

End of the day on 7/1/13. At least this is progress.

The third wall goes up on 7/2/13. More progress.

7/7/13 - we have a roof on the room.

7/8/13, I have walls and a roof and my pond in the foreground of
the room.

7/8/13, end of the day and a different angle.

 

7/10/13, getting closer. Doors are installed and roofing material goes on.
We are getting ready for shingles.

7/10/13 - we got a rain shower and the room leaks.
 

7/10/13 - water in the room. This is in the southwest corner inside the sunroom
next to the chimney.

7/10/13 - more shots of the leak in the southeast corner where
water came in the sunroom and ran down the wall in the southeast corner.

7/10/13 water running down the wall inside the sunroom, in
the southwest corner.
 
7/31/13 - still leaking and cannot get anyone to come out
to fix the leak. But you can see the liquid epoxy floor I put down.
 

8/12/13 - the south door has begun to split.
 
 
Thy should post my photos on their web site.