Working hard...

Like Obie, Hubband and I are working hard. Both?! You say... yes! Hubband got a job! He is being groomed to take over as a shift manager at McAllister's Deli. For the moment he'll just be working the counter, but they are working around his class schedule, and open to how ever many hours he needs and wants.

In other news!

Our need for the air conditioner has decreased with the advent of the new windows. Part of that may be due to the fact that the weather has finally cooled off. ITs nice though, to go to bed with the air turned to fan. :-)

I will be heading to NJ for a 2 day rush training session on the building of a calendar. We're not sure of the timing yet, but it will be nice to expand my responsibilities at work. We've been trying to schedule this for a few months now and it never was able to work out. Looks like this time we may actually succeed.

We have a long weekend this weekend, hurrah! We're planning to attack the jungle that is our backyard.

And that's the news of the day. Enjoy.

The corner of Rebecca and Mink Streets...The tree in the foreground is in our front yard.

The view from my front office window looking right up Rebecca street...

Looking left....

And the Evening and the Morning were the First Day....

Fear not, a wild man has not been let loose upon the world. Oh, wait... yes he has! Hubband's first day of school was today. In honor of his mother's time-honored tradition of photo's on the first day of school, I MEANT to take a picture of him setting out this morning with his backpack. MEANT to, but forgot entirely until he was at his evening class. So, here he is, home from classes, changed into his "play gear" and not allowing me any closer to him without leaving bite marks behind. The Hubband in his school daze. :-)

Ta Da!!

Well, the windows saga continued its unexpected journey on Sunday. We had been told they would be here "Sunday afternoon" IF the Friday job was completed in a timely fashion. At 7:30 am (does that sound like afternoon to you? Anyone? Hmmm. Didn't think so) DING goes the doorbell and BAM! the guys are working! Hubband and I, not anticipating such an early morning, had not gone to bed at what one might call an appropriate hour (well, for getting up at 7 anyway...), we'd crashed down at around 3 am and both had had trouble sleeping for one reason or another. The guys, who usually install around 17 windows a day, only were able to get 6 of ours done because of the weirdness of them. They basically had to tear out the window, the framing, the molding, EVERYTHING and then rebuild it all. They are returning today to put in the last 2 windows and the molding/edging on the exterior of the house. WE LOVE OUR WINDOWS! But, ohhhh, were we ever sleepy yesterday!

Photos follow in their own posts. Blogger wasn't letting me attach them to this one for some reason...

Another view of the hole... Each of the windows looked like this when they were torn out, so I only pestered the guys to take pictures of one. hehe.