a sign of summer

Today I experienced my one true sign that summer is almost here, ordering a nice cold, lemon zesty, Samuel Adams Summer Ale. I love beer as most of you know, and usually my beer of choice is Coors Light, because its cheap and well good. But my reall favorite beer of choice is Sam Summer (as we...we being craig and I... like to call it) I always order it with a lemon wedge to bring out the lemon zest that they brew with the beer. Sam summer reminds me of camping, it reminds me of tailgating before countryfest and most importantly, it is a reminder good times spent with great friends.

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on a side note concerning the house, the phone people were here today and now ALL of the phone jacks are operable and we have phones alllll over the house.

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As noted in the previous post, I am doing the Relay for Life with Amanda and her fellow teachers at Woodland. I decided to join up with her and take on this challenge because I have seen how cancer has affected members of my family and my friends. This is such an important cause to raise money for and to help find a cure. If you can donate, great, if not, thats great too, because i know you took the time to read this today and your at least thinking about someone you know with or has had cancer and somehow, someday you will make a difference in their life.




Happy Passover and Happy Easter

RELAY FOR LIFE

Support me in the Relay For Life - I have joined forces with my wife for this great cause. this isnt one of those fake "causes" on facebook, this is real and I would like your support!!! my personal site is http://main.acsevents.org/goto/sean.relayforlife

SOX in HD

Let me tell ya, HD is awesome, right now i am sitting on our Bob's Furniture recliner couch watching our 42in HDTV and I've never watched a better baseball game.

We've been busy at the house getting the little things done:

fixed the electrical panel door

re-installed the hand rails on the stairs

continued putting up things on the walls

fertilized the lawn and overseed (now i jsut need a mower)



Thanks to technology, we were able to give my grandparents in florida a video tour of our house over the internet using video chat. It was really neat to be able to have them see the house like that.




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.....we have found the parents of our future dog......more to come soon!!

Outdoor Entertaining Area / BBQ PIT / Campfire

Here is a pic of the firepit my brother built!!

New Mailbox

Our dumb mailman should be happy now. This afternoon I installed a newly painted mailbox.

It is at the legal height and aligned with the other box on the other side. No more complainin mr. mailman.


My brother also finished work on operation fire pit. I will post more pics of that as soon as I take them.

ticks? in the woods??

I found out today that yes we do live in the woods, and these woods have ticks!!!!!!!

Mailbox/Amanda's 25th

So we got a little note in our mailbox on friday, after only being in the house for just over a month, from the mailman stating: our mailbox does not conform to postal regulations, that the front does not align with the mailbox next to it and needs to be replaced.

What you can't tell fromt he pic is that it is leaning wayyyy back and is rusted out, being held together by a bungee cord. Now, I know we needed a new mailbox, but was jsut waiting for warmer weather to get it and dig the hole, we certainly did not need a note from the mailman to tell us. So today we went and bought a new mailbox and I will be installing it soon.

Saturday we went to Travis's 1st birthday party at Jill and Marty's house. We had a great time with the little guy and our friends, after a bunch of us came back to the house to relax and/or do yardwork. Marty came over to help cut down a tree as part of operation firepit. My bro was there to help also with brush and tree removal. Eric Jay and Tom put together the wheelbarrow and eric hauled the stones for the firepit.

Marty got the treet down in a flash I will post pics soon, they are on Amanda's iPhone and im not sure how to get them off yet. We cleared the branches and he took the trunk of the tree to heat his house in the winter and i kept everything else for campfires.

Even though it was Amanda's birthday and she got some nice gifts, my birthday gift from my Eric & Connie and my Parents came a little early.


A custom Red Sox dart Board Cainet. Once it has been installed I'll post pics of it in the bar.!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

In the evening a unch of our friends went out for some drinks and food to celebrate Amanda's quarter century milestone. We had some great laughs and lots of fun.

Today I finished re-installing the closet doors and mounting the tv in the bedroom.

until next time..........