An October Saturday

Since I mainly use this blog to look back at our lives, I thought I'd recount our day yesterday.

We slept in, Bryan didn't get up to run, I can't remember why now. We got up and had coffee and watched two episodes of Scrubs.

After showers we headed to the downtown farmer's market and bought pumpkins from a local seller. So much cheaper AND prettier than the ones I got from the Midtown Nursery last year. 4 decent sized pumpkins = $18. We stopped by the adopt-a-pet area and held a sweet puppy who gave lots of kisses.

Riverarts Festival is going on, so we walked down South Main towards downtown. We went to South of Beale for lunch because I skipped breakfast and was hungry. We had a lovely meal on the patio with beers. When we were sustained we walked back down South Main and enjoyed the festival for a while.

Back in the car, we drove down to South Front Antiques. We are working on the front patio and wanting to make a little barrier on the one side of old windows. We scavenged and haggled and got two old windows.

Back at the house I taped out the approximate size of the area we'd like to put the windows in and I placed them. Then Bosco walked on them and broke two panes of glass. Ooops. It will add to the weathered look we are going for.

After cleaning up the glass we then decided to head to Home Depot to look for ideas for the laundry room shelf I want built. All we came up with was L brackets. Back at the house, though, Bryan figured out that we have two pieces of wood that would work, we just need them cut down to size. Sweet!

We walked over to Sherwin Williams since they were having a sale and bought two gallons of paint for trim and cabinets. Not looking forward to using it.

For dinner we had left overs and then watched Funny Farm. It was not too funny. Oh well.

It was a busy day, but it was nice to spend the day together exploring, decorating, and getting things done.

From the Draft Folder: Christmas Eve 2008

Recently I found some old posts in my draft folder from several years ago. I thought they were humorous so I'm posting them. Enjoy 2008 Rachel rants.

I had planned today to go down towards my parents house and visit with some family, maybe do a little baking. Those plans got thrawted when we did not receive the last crucial check for our down payment yesterday. So I spent the morning laying about waiting for the guy to get the check. Went to the grocery store which was crazy. Waited at the husbands work for man with check. Deposited check. Talked with each of my family members to reassure them that I would not be coming down there today. Realized that dirty clothes were about to take over the closet, proceeded to do three loads. Made second rum cake of the week. Burned finger in the process. (I am having to pick at the keyboard in order to type, which makes this extremely difficult and slow!) Decided to make my infamous chex mix. Our retarded grocery store did not have two of the neccasary types of Chex, but had something somewhat similar. The Chex box does not have the oven recipe, burned half a mix in the microwave. Was amazed that it is even possible to burn chex mix. Cleaned up cat throw up. Ran to the sink about a thousand times to run burned finger under cool water. I am now collapsed on the couch waiting for the husband to come home to take care of me, the mess in the kitchen, and the rest of the laundry. Oh yeah, must shower, do nails, get dressed, go to church, eat dinner with extended family, open presents and socialize.

From the archives: November 2008

Recently I found some old posts in my draft folder from several years ago. I thought they were humorous so I'm posting them. Enjoy 2008 Rachel rants.

Buying a house is a big decision.

So far we've discussed where we will put the bikes and that we would prefer a manuel lawn mower

From the draft folder: November 2008

Recently I found some old posts in my draft folder from several years ago. I thought they were humorous so I'm posting them. Enjoy 2008 Rachel rants.

I have spent the last 8 hours looking at houses... either driving around or by looking on the internets. I've given myself a headache and some really tense shoulders. I think I need a back massage.

I have a feeling the next few months are going to be very stressful.

From my draft folder: July 12, 2008

Recently I found some old posts in my draft folder from several years ago. I thought they were humorous so I'm posting them. Enjoy 2008 Rachel rants.


I hate getting up early in the morning. Its cruel and unusual punishment. I'm mad at my husbands family for making me do so...... I might forgive them if I had coffee.

Tour D' Sprit 2011

Bryan ran with the Breakaway team once again this year. Its a fun race to go to as many people camp out and generally stay for a way and get comfortable. It doesn't hurt that Breakaway buys a keg.