Ah yes, I got soo excited about all the great changes going on at Locksley that I forgot to post the demo pictures…
So without further ado…
here are some shots of the massive destruction!
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Uh, Move That Door Over Here…
Alright, the first installment of the great DIY pics we’ve been getting. One of the big problems with the living room/kitchen was the double small door arrangement they had going on. There were two 32″ doors on each side of the room. Which A) is silly and B) made both rooms seem closed off.
Our solution was to close one door off while widening the other to double its orginal size — essentially moving the other doo next to the first. The difference was dramatic. The rooms are now more open while at the same time having more usable wall space. And the cool fluted door trim is pretty sweet as well.
Some of our widening frenzy spilled over to the adjacent door which was also made 4″ wider. That was the most we could change it without it becoming a huge project. I think the change it made is still significant. Well enough talk here are the pics:
Halp Us N Irak
Responding to Sen John Kerry’s recent remarks, ("You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq." – Washington Post) a few soldiers made him a sign.
As Bill Engvall would say: here’s your sign… The now famous sign put a hilarous spin on the comment from Kerry. The Senator first claimed he botched joke about Bush, but later after pressure appologized to those people were offended by misinterpreting his joke. (The smart people all knew what he meant to say). Two comments on this:
1) The troops displayed the BEST possible reaction to the badly botched joke – a good one.
2) I can actually understand how Kerry made this honest mistake. Kerry as many on the far left – really doesn’t like George Bush. (really) So much so that anything the Bush is associated with is tainted as fruit from the same tree (to steal a legal metaphore). Thus the extreme anti-Bush sentiment clouds thinking on the war, the troops in the war, everything that eventially leads back to Bush. The problem is then the same people start taking shortcuts in making their points. So the process is Bush bad -> war bad -> troops bad; "the troops are bad!" -> actually a slam on Bush. Blame the need for sound bites or laziness or efficency – the reason for the short cut doesn’t really matter. The point is, that I truely believe that John Kerry does not look down on the troops – well at least any more than anyone else ;) The somewhat frightening thing is the extent that this anti-Bush sentiment can apparently cloud thoughts on loosely related issues.
Cross Country Road Trip
Finally made it home! Our last hotel’s wifi was down, so here’s the last of the trip… We woke to find our hotel surrounded by a parade for the Pino Bean Festival (you can’t make this stuff up).
When we finally made it back to the Volunteer State it was finally starting to feel like we were on the home stretch. In Memphis we didn’t have time to take in Graceland, but we did see the Pyramid & St. Jude’s
Cross Country Road Trip
This morning I found my hotel’s continental breakfast lacking. No joke, they had cereal but no milk, sausage but no eggs, and muffins but no butter. Luckily there was a Denny’s next door – there seemed to be a lot of Denny’s in the West.
Speaking of the West, apparently it hasn’t been completely tamed. I snapped a pic of an actual dino attack right by the road!
