Happy seventh anniversary Cynthia and Mike



I know--a picture from several years ago




Cynthia and her eldest daughter Faustina

Mike, I am sorry but I don't have a good current picture of you and Cynthia.  What the heck you look as good today as you did in 2007 anyway!
As usual I am a day late.  Cynthia and Mike were married 7 years ago yesterday.  It was a grand day with hundreds of family and friends gathering to share in the joy of the day.  Now, they have a new house, a great daughter Faustina, a handsome son Jude, a cute mischievous looking son Ben and a wonderful baby Agatha.  We are far from the teaching days at Trinity or the volunteering days in Seattle or the soccer days of Gustavus or the study times and sport times in high school and the fun times at Highland Catholic.  I promise to not mention the morning experiences of grade school or the times Cynthia's brothers threatened to do extreme measures when they were baby sitting.  Of course I do not have knowledge of Mike's growing up but I am sure the list could go on about him too!!
The temp is down to 34 this morning and the paper says tomorrow will bring temps down to 26.  In that vein this old house is begging for the 8 storm windows I am trying to rehab to hurry and get on.  I really do want to prime and paint them but--I am not sure it is in the cards for this fall.  I tend to get chilly when I work in the garage and Terry suggested I set up our 10 by 10 camping canopy so the heat stays near but that would mean dust and dirt on it so--I will see.  During times like this week I wish for a ceiling to be in the shop but in the end I really like the openess of no ceiling.  Again I am so thankful for the encouragement Terry gave in getting the shop in order.  It is so so much fun to work out there.  At times I think back to about 1984 or so when I decided to kind of close up shop, except for repairs, until John, Travis, Aaron and Cynthia grew  up and out of school.  The shop then, with it's imaginary "closed" sign and the shop today are more different than night and day.
I talked to Dale yesterday and he has seen few deer but a lot of tracks and signs.  What the heck does he expect me to shot at tracks and signs!  He did say the guy who used the stand last year kind of rehabed the sides so I do not need to do that.  I guess that is the reason he is charging me big bucks to lease my own stand on his farm---of course that is not true.
No, I have poured the last of the FP and that means two things.  I am done writing and I need to get some warm clothes on and brave the garage for a time.
Travis and I carried the headboard for the bed upstairs yesterday and it is in place.  I don't know about it.  There is no copper which is a downer and it is tall.  I will post a picture in a day or so but it is not the kind of finished product that I would advertise to the world.  I do like the contrasting colors of walnut, maple and paduak but with that said I am not happy with it given all the time and work I put into it.  I would like to say I will make a different one but in all honesty there are so so so many things I want to do so we will see.  I currently have 8 items lined up in the garage that need sanding, finishing etc.  AND they are sitting near the storms that are begging to be done and near them are some other items that are in process and WELL you get the picture.