Our Family Project

It's been many, many months since my good friend, Aubrey helped me get a clue about what to do with my living room/dining room space.  I finally  found furniture that would work for my vision! I'd been looking on Craig's List for only a few days when I found the dining table.  The seller was selling it with a patio set (love seat, 2 chair, and a coffee table).  We bought both the patio set and the dining table set for a total of $350!  Score! Then, I found one of the chairs in here on Craig's List for $20, and the couch for $350.  I couldn't be more pleased!  Initially, I was having a hard time finding a couch that I really liked for under $800-1000.  And, instead, thanks to people who gently used their furniture and then sold it to us at an amazingly low price, we got all the furniture in the rooms for what I was looking at for a couch! We still need to change out the floor lamp, add another side table with lamp, two lamps t...

Andrew got to participate in the Raingutter Regatta last week for pack meeting.  After the fiasco that was the Pinewood Derby, I was determined to learn all I could about performing well at the raingutter regatta. My first mistake? We didn't seal the trimaran until, oh, six hours before the races began. .... Did you know that polyurethane is supposed to cure for 24 hours before normal use??? I didn't. Weeks ago, Andrew brought home his trimaran kit and put his trimaran together without painting it or anything.  And, over the weekend we were so busy with extended family that I didn't even think about getting his trimaran ready. On Tuesday morning, I started to look online for tips and tricks to preparing the trimaran well.  Everything said to put the polyurethane on the pontoons at least 24 hours before the Regatta. Oops. We only had a few hours before our regatta. Oh well.  I took Andrew into the garage and we started painting the polyurethan...