Projects at Home

I have been on the war path for doing projects at home. Right now, I am engaged in building a little potting shed near the garden. I am using a bunch of the lodge pole pines I chopped down in early summer as posts and will frame up walls in between. It should look pretty cool once I am done. I also plan on putting in largish sized stone plates for the flooring around the shed and then seeding blue grass so it grows in between the plates. I am also going to build up a couple of stone planting boxes for flowers and maybe herbs. I am placing the shed near one of our maples and I think I am also going to plant a river birch and maybe another maple to semi surround the shed. In a couple of years (like 15) it will have shade from the east, south and west. So it will be a cool place to do some gardening. I would also like to extend a little trellis out from the roof and grow some type of ivy on it.

It is suppose to rain this weekend, so I am hoping that I can get a lot of the framing done over the next three evenings and then finish up the roofing this weekend. We shall see... I will post pictures once it is done.

Back to Work

I am back from my trip to Vegas. It was fun, but not my cup of tea. The way people throw money around was a bit to much for me. The Sharepoint Branding class I attended was great though. I could probably sit down, one on one, with our instructor for a week and still have more to learn. I have a good start now though, so I am looking forward to branding our work sharepoint site to conform more with WSU. I meet another soccer junkie at the training seminar and we have already joined a Champions Fantasy league together. We are one week late, but that is cool.

ViviAnne was happy to have me back as were the kids. They meet me at the airport in Spokane which was fun. We are planning on working in the garden and yard this weekend. We tore up most of the garden last weekend, but still have some work to do on it before winter. We both want to build some planter beds, so I am going to try to get the wood for that this weekend. We also need to weed'n'feed the yard and mow one last time. Weed eating would be nice too, but I am not sure if I will get to it.

I need coffee, off to get some:)

Into the New Semester

Fall Semester has started once again. I am busy as usual and work has me traveling to Los Vegas for a web training seminar. I will be their for about a week which should be pretty fun. I am looking forward to learning a lot about Sharepoint and front end design in Sharepoint. ViviAnne has also started teaching her classes. She is working really hard at keeping up with it all and I think it might have been a little tougher on her than she thought initially, but I think she is also enjoying it. I am proud of her. Liam started 1st grade and Asa started preschool so we now have two of three going to school. It is weird to think that Liam is gone about the same amount of time that I am gone from home during the week because of the bus schedule. He is handling it well though and really enjoys 1st grade. He says he like all the recesses.

Have a great day and week!