We finally got the wood floors put in downstairs. We saved ourselves about $2000 doing it ourselves. I am trying to decide if the pain in my legs is worth it, but after all, I think it is. It turned out quite nicely, don't you think?Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Carpet in Living Room replaced with wood.
We finally got the wood floors put in downstairs. We saved ourselves about $2000 doing it ourselves. I am trying to decide if the pain in my legs is worth it, but after all, I think it is. It turned out quite nicely, don't you think?
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Putting in the wood floors...
Unfinished dining room
unfinished living roomI have been working all weekend on these floors. I call the upper one "unfininshed dining room" and the other one is "unfinished living room". If the great impressionists can get away with unfinished works, then why can't I? Just kidding. Is it really worth $2000 to let someone else do this for me? Not to me although I am sore from head to toe from all of the bending, stooping, and lifting. However, I do have a new miter saw and a new jigsaw out of the deal. I think it will be worth it when we are done. Already, I can tell how good it will look when complete. But home improvement can definitely be a butt whoopin'.
What is the Obamination up to, now?
http://www.globalclimatescam.com/?p=572
I got this in an email. Is he ceding our American Sovereignty? I knew this day would come.
I got this in an email. Is he ceding our American Sovereignty? I knew this day would come.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
A show I have greatly enjoyed.
I have been getting the discs of this series from the Netflix, and I doubt that I have enjoyed a television show more than this. It is way too bad that it was cancelled before season 4 started. I could watch this series as long as they want to make it. I have never been a big fan of Timothy Oliphant as I just saw him as a bit player, usually the bad guy in a movie, but he is great in this show. And Ian McShane is as good an actor as I have ever seen. I wish it went on, but I guess it doesn't. I hear they are making a 2 hour movie just to bring some kind of closure to the story, but it won't be as good. It is definitely the best western I have ever seen, and maybe the best series ever. I would have to think about that.Don't watch it around the kids as it is full of realism, i.e., bad language (alot) and other adult situations. I have been truly entertained.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Aesop's Fables re-written by Obama
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
Two Different Versions!
Two Different Morals!
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, “It's Not Easy Being Green.”
Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
Two Different Versions!
Two Different Morals!
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, “It's Not Easy Being Green.”
Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
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