Spiffing up the place

My brother in law was down last weekend to visit. It is so nice to see him as he is the local Santa Claus. Just ask Nessa's kids. He is like a pied piper to children. He must smell like warm baked sugar cookies or something. Well when he is here it usually means there is a project at his folks house (my in laws). And it did. Building a dog pen for my mom in laws new doggie. Dan (Nessa's hubby got roped into this one).

But I think next weekend is a trip to San Antonio where BIL lives. He is handy but I am sure we are going to need a San Antonio plumber to do the job. Mine, that I do the answering service for said he would do the job but the $$ for the house call would be out of this world. HA HA I love seeing what all these men can do. Handy man style you know. But there are times to call in a professional.

I think we all have our houses in redo around here. Most of us all purchase a place with a mental eye of how we can change it. Put our mark on it. Guess it is the puppy dog in all of us. What projects are you working on? What should you have called a pro in on. Who is the handy man there?

Just a swinging'

As I said I live in a little town in central Texas. This last Saturday night our local VFD and ladies aux sponsored a street dance on our town square. It was fun to take a twirl across the town and to tap our toes to a little country fun. Sunday was a day of rest, well was suppose to be. Instead we had a pipe break in one of our bathrooms and the place was baptized. So half a day of trying to stop that. As usual we could not get the parts we needed in this small town so we have a gaping hole in the wall of our bathroom. And the pipes are cut off so we can not bath in that room. Funny enough the door handle came off in that same bathroom this morning and locked my poor hubby inside. I was out walking the dogs and he was inside banging and trying to get out. Well it is always something you know. Yesterday was my 2nd wedding anniversary too. My hubby is still working two jobs so we did not get to go out, but I made a good dinner and a nice hot cake that we bathed in butter for dessert. So life here is doing the usual. Nice to know I can sit on my veranda (porch for others) and enjoy the breeze blowing through the wind chimes. I hope you have time to do the same there!