So that let's us know what you have been up to for one weekend you say, what the heck have you been doing that hasn't allowed you to keep the blog up to date. Well, we had a new deck built, refinished the floors on the first floor and had new windows put in the front room. So take that. The deck was yet another Oak Park beat down handed to the residents of 330 N. Humphrey. Apparently the good civil servants at the Village pick a few neighborhoods to walk around in each year to look for potential "violations" of the building code. For example, one of these fine individuals may walk down the side of your house and pear into the back yard, might even open up your fence and go in the back yard, and see that your deck has some peeling paint. Well, peeling paint is a violation and must be corrected. In this case you may get a letter telling you to correct the violation within 30 days. Invasive some might say, but those of us who live in the Village just smile and are happy to see our tax dollars at work. I mean, who wants salt on the roads this winter when you can pay to have people walk your neighborhood to tell you what is wrong with your house.
You may have sensed the sarcasm in the last paragraph. I hope so because I was laying it on pretty thick. You also may have guessed that the above example was taken from my life. You would also be correct. But only if you had been to the famed 330 N. Humphrey would you know that scrapping the peeling paint off of the old deck to paint over it would actually cause the railing to fall off. Although I am suspicious about it just "falling" off, you see Kelly was also the one working on scrapping the paint when the railing just "fell " off (see above post). Anyway, instead of trying to salvage the rotting piece of crap of a deck we had we hired a crew to rip it down and build us a new one.
After a solid 2 week battle royal with the Village about the permit, nothing is easy in this town, they had us a new beautiful deck built in 3 days. Sorry, I will put finished pictures up in the next posting. It was just in time to because our little Daisy girl was beginning to worry us. We weren't sure what was wrong until the new deck was ready for use. Only then did we realize that she had been acting the way she was because she didn't have a deck to sit on. At some points we actually thought we were going to have to take her to the vet she was acting so different. Little thing just wanted a deck to sit on, and no "thing" wasn't my first choice of words, but this is a family blog so we keep it G rated.
The deck was complete about 2 weeks before the wedding so we had a little time to enjoy it. That and enough time to decide we should probably have the floors refinished and replace the front windows while we were in Corinth for the wedding. Yeah, were really bright aren't we. Sometimes I wonder, what is smarter, me or the kitchen table. Anyway, we also hired this out so our physical effort wasn't all that great. We did have to move all of our furniture into the basement or second floor the two days before we left for the wedding. Just a nice way to relax before the big day. However, the results are completely worth it. Check out the pics.
Ok, this is getting long and the Cubs are now down 7 to 2 in Game 1 of the NLDS so my patience is pretty much gone. As a result, this blog posting is pretty much done. As stated, we got married this past weekend. Sept. 27, 2008. I would appreciate any efforts any readers would make to remind me as this date approaches in the coming years. We don't have pictures but I promise to write more about it later. But basically, Kelly made me the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.
The church where we got married.
Judy and David's (Kelly's mother and boyfriend) house in Corinth.
Our babies hanging out on the front porch.
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