I have 3 running around my house.. All I can say is that there are ups and downs. And sometimes it doesn't all make sense. My advice is to let your wife voice her concerns because sometimes they can have some merit. Just make sure you guys have a united front when dealing with the child. Without like having the child hate you in the process.. Good luck.. lol
Still recovering from this here. A development is still under water, I didn't try to get in there because of the foot of muddy water covering the road. Lots of property damage. I did make it out to the Northeast end of the island, they got the road cleared (mostly). llarge amounts of debris, rocks, boulders. The breakwall failed in a couple places and there's an 8 foot section of road that's missing. Still a lot of standing water around. My family friends cottage seems to have made it through mostly unscathed. Locals are saying it's the worst they have seen since the 70's.
Goofy (04-19-2018), lost in melb. (04-18-2018)
Teh One Who Knocks (04-19-2018)
We've known for awhile that we were going to have to replace the fence around the entire house eventually. It's original when the house was built (1997) and wasn't taken care of by previous owners. It's in very rough shape. All we've done basically is use band-aids to keep it up (mostly just replacing old pickets). But the wind storm the other day snapped at least two of the posts on the back section of fence (maybe more) and that 50-60 foot stretch of fence is also the only section that is 5 feet tall instead of 6 feet, like the entire rest of the fence, which is very odd as to why it would have been built that way.
Luckily, this type of fence isn't hard to build/rebuild, it's just labor intensive. I have to replace a total of 8 fence posts on that section, so that's 8 stupid fence post holes to dig, which will be the worst part After that, it's basically just screwing 2x4's to the posts and then screwing the pickets to the 2x4's. The bigger problem is it's supposed to rain, and a lot, both Friday and Saturday.
So, tomorrow is the service at the Houston VA for my Dad. Going to be strange. Haven't wrapped my head around the fact he's gone yet.
DemonGeminiX (04-20-2018), Goofy (04-20-2018), Noilly Pratt (04-20-2018), RBP (04-21-2018), Teh One Who Knocks (04-20-2018)
DemonGeminiX (04-20-2018), Goofy (04-20-2018), KevinD (04-20-2018), RBP (04-21-2018)
I still miss my grandad........ he died 25 years ago
RBP (04-21-2018), Teh One Who Knocks (04-20-2018)
I miss my virginity, I lost it 31 years ago.
KevinD (04-20-2018), RBP (04-21-2018), Teh One Who Knocks (04-20-2018)
It will be 30 years next January for me. Very very strange to know that I've lived more of my life without my dad than with him considering the impact he's had on my life. I still at Christmas will see something that my dad would have liked and then have to mentally check myself.
Sometimes it feels a lifetime ago when he passed away, sometimes it feels like yesterday.
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DemonGeminiX (04-21-2018), Goofy (04-20-2018), KevinD (04-20-2018), RBP (04-21-2018), Teh One Who Knocks (04-20-2018)
It was a nice simple ceremony. Chaplain did get dad's rank wrong though, lol ( I've a copy of his dd-214 right beside mine). Sad thing about funerals is seeing folks you haven't in years, missing them, but knowing damned well you'll likely never see them again.
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