Images - Spring Blossoms

More blossoms from the Bradford Pear tree. Lighting adjusted for effect (taken 03/14/07)

Images - My brother the pillow

The other day Dec and Can were watching TV when I came home from work.
Can had obviously not had a nap and Dec thought he looked like a soft
and cuddly pillow. I thought it was cute.

Image - Spring is Here

This morning these blossoms decided to burst forth on our Bradford pear tree (taken 03/14/07)

Images - Treebeard the Ent

The trees are watching you.
(taken 3/10/07 at the American Tobacco Trail)

What a day

Not a lot of good to report from today. We woke up to get ready for church and while Mom took a shower I went down to get breakfast for the boys. I heard dripping and thought that it was raining outside until I saw the water dripping from the ceiling in the office/sun room. I quickly got the shower turned off, but the water kept flowing from the ceiling. I had done some minor repair work on the pipe leading into the bathtub water spout last night so that there wouldn't be a gap between the spout and the shower wall, but hadn't done anything that should have lead to all of the water in my ceiling. When it kept coming after turning off the shower my first thought was that I had somehow broken a weak plumbing connection, because I couldn't figure out where all of the water was coming from. I turned off the main water inlet but still a lot of dripping. I cut a hole in the water behind the tub to see where the water was coming from and turned the main water back on, but couldn't see any leaks. As it is, the only thing I can think is that a rough spot on the water pipe prevented a good seal with the water spout, which lead to water spraying back through the hole in the wall when the shower was turned on. There was so much water coming from the ceiling that I just couldn't believe this was the problem. I sanded the pipe to improve the seal, put huge gob of silicone caulking around the pipe to plug the hole in the shower wall and then put the spout back on. I haven't tried it yet because I wanted to wait until the caulk dries and I have to admit that I'm a little scared to turn the water on. Hopefully things won't leak, but I still have a hole in the wall and a wet ceiling.

As if this weren't enough for one day, we were invited to have desert with some friends. Just as we were getting ready to leave, the chair I was sitting on collapsed underneath me and punched a hole in their wall. I know that I can stand to lose a few pounds but I didn't realize that I was smash a chair overweight. Our friends tried to assure me that it wasn't really my fault and they had had problems with the chairs before, but I think that they were just trying to make me fell better.

Right about now I'm ready to head to bed in hopes that tomorrow is better than today.

Images - Buddies

Dec and Can taking a break during our American Tobacco Trail run/walk/bike trip. (taken 03/09/07)