Moving and plotting and box heaven

What are the marks on the wall for?  This is for the new TV and where it will work best for the position and where the studs etc. the TV IS huge. 

The TV as it sat on the floor

And mounted on the wall. 

And the new rug for the living room. 

AND in the 22nd the movers we finally HERE!!  Yay!!

9 crates the bow - they spent a LOT of time getting it all OFF the trucks… then we had to dig out. 

And curtains used again from Germany. There are others that we will reuse on Butch’s office. The ones in here are going in the dining to contrast with the dark blue. 

Butch left to get Sally from Fort Walton for Christmas. He didn’t come back until Christmas Eve day. 

South Carolina and the Ashwood’s

For New Years this year we went to Robin and Donalds new house in South Carolina. We had a rainy trip north but the weather whole we were there was beautiful and mild!  We were only there from Friday to Monday as I had work and was avoiding taking leave. I want to maintain at the higher overseas rate as long as I can as it’s 120 hours MORE than they allow stateside. IF I can maintain that amount I can retire and be paid out that extra amount which is a good chunk of change!

They have a cute three bed two bath in a new community to the west of their town. Cute homes. Nice neighborhood and they have close friends who live in the same neighborhood that they knew from their time in the DC area. 

Did I take ANY pictures?  Nope!  Did I have a great time?  Heck yes!  It was a nice visit and a great weekend. I’m glad they are so much closer now. Only 5 hours or a little more. We did take one picture. Don took it on his phone. I’ll see if I can add that soon!  Robin always decorated her house so pretty so we took a picture in front of her beautiful tree!

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Dads 90th, family get together, Utah fun

It was a short LONG weekend jam packed with family, family and more family!!

It was a SUPER rainy ride north. I MISS well marked German roads. See there were a few GOOD things the Germans had!!  Either way we made it. Even though I apparently have the bladder of a 9 year old and had to stop and pee. 

I also got to watch Christmas stories on the flight!  Fun!!  I watched a Candace Cameron Burke show. It was cute. 

We also had a few spare pilots ON the flight. Bonus for us!  ;)

Utah was snowy!!



I saw Santa!!!  It looked better when he had his hand up and you could see his plush suit and white gloves. Lovely. He was a GOOD Santa too. I hollered “SANTA, SANTA, SANTA! I know him!!!”  Ha!!


THIS IS Martin and Marilyn with their grands and great grands that we’re able to attend. As Linda points out a LOT were missing from this picture!  They have a BUNCH of greats and a BUNCH of great grands!!

Cousin love!!

My how tall you’ve grown Mike!!

After the get together at Sandi’s we drove down to Cedar Vitg and visited with mom and dad and Linda. 

This is my moms old wedding dress. It was originally Aunt Flo’s dress as well as Carolyn Koenig’s as well. We just came across my wedding dress in storage. It’s in the garage currently :). Guess I should move it!



After a dinner on Monday night. In order if height - purely by accident. 

In chronological order. 

And just like that we were headed to Vegas to fly out. 

Vegas valley. A big dusty. 


Flying out. Until next time. 

Art with Liz

How it started….

How it ended. So cute!!

And just like that…

Our flooring was finished late last night and baseboards took all day but they are done. The house, she is done!  Now to unpack more!!

But before that’s done Butch pulled out some baseboard in the kids bath that had rotted. Well, it did more than rotted. There was evidence of a past termite infestation. Yikes!!  The good news it was PAST infestation and they are all dead without evidence of anything still occurring. The best news is But h has replaced the baseboards in that bath. Yay!

This morning there was an odd red light in the west. Wait a minute. The sun rises in the east…. Weird. My guess is it is/was a very tall thunderhead that was catching the first rays of the sun and glowing through it as there were storms most of the day today. 

This evening was cat care time. I went and dumped litter boxes and fed kitties. I got to give them some wet feed so Ash tolerated me petting her while she ate and didn’t skitter off too fast when I talked to her. Salem crawled into the bed frame and wallowed in chin and neck scratching however would not come down to sit with/near me. As I had to grab some stuff before I could head home I gave up and said my goodbyes and gave a final scratch and was on my way. 

Oh and this weekend after Liz’s. Well actually during Lizzie’s I relaxed and lazed around. I want the ladder girl and I didn’t traipse through the backyard as they were making plans for the terracing. I went inside talked to Salem and relaxed in the couch :). Ah the life. 

Sunday had us going to Best Buy, Walmart and the commissary. Well we got to Best Buy. We shopped TVs and picked one on sale. It looked like it would be a good size in the living room. So we ordered it. It wasn’t available in our store for weeks. We opted to drive to McDonough as, well quite frankly, we have nothing better to do. So off we went. We drove in, picked up, drove out. That simple. We got it home and holy crap it’s HUGE!!!

Here it is in movie theater mode. 

And in the light of day. 

Overkill?  Maybe big big is it nice not having to watch shows on an iPad or a phone. The post it’s on the wall mark out the half way and edges of the placement on the wall. Yeah. It’s huge. But it’s ours now. 

And the week marches on. Work is coming together slowly. Still waiting on some access so I’m not stepping in fully yet. The guys who work under me are very much introverts. I’m becoming one. Sigh. I have another job offer… waiting for it to come through to see what the money would be. I need to talk to that supervisor to see what it would be to work with/under him. Not sure it’s worth the stress. The debate rages on. Take a stressful job or muddle through with this one?

Helping Liz with Christmas lights

Her house is so cute and the picture I took of Liz climbing the ladder were on her phone. dang it!!  Oh no well. 

Her house has the East side along a park. Very nice!!

Looking “down” her street towards downtown Macon. It’s a short walk to most of the town!

Looking up her street. 

It was nice to spend time helping and watching her work ;). She has a very cute but very OLD house. I blame myself for my dream houses. She takes after me in that respect.