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Highway 285 accident:
July 27, 2011 around 2.15 P.M.


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New Deck Table & Stand        July 8

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The stand is steel - covered with plastic & we filled it with about 30-35lbs of sand
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Replaced old carpet on the garage steps with carpet saved from the re-flooring.








Studio - Upgrades    -  May 12-13
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North Wall - Light on the right side of the easel -  Picture Viewer on the left side of the easel
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South Wall - Light on the right side of the easel -  Screw to hang the picture viewer on the left side of the easel (may buy another one)








Easel - For the Studio - April 25-26
Conceptualized and designed the Easel; then bought some wood; door hinges; L-shaped brackets and installed two easels in the studio.   Here is how.

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Double Rainbow   April 19
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It rained and hailed a little bit and then the sun came out; Monika took a picture of the neighbor's flowering tree and then I saw the rainbows.
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Snow Storms Feb 3-5
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Xmas lights 2
Tried again with the flash off and the pictures are a little better, I think.
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The lights on the Xmas tree and on top of the garage change from steady to blinking to just
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Xmas Lights
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Entry door and side/front of the house.
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Xmas tree and garage/front of the house.

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The pictures don't come out well, so here are 2 videos - click on the picture to see the video.









NRC  -  Incompetent Idiots
I got a robotic(?) call from an 866 number - they identified themselves as the NRC - The number from my Vonage account is 866-960-8266 and Vonage calls it '800 service'.
The call itself was attacking Michael Bennet and I immediately said 'That's a lie - go to hell'.
  I am a registered Democrat and a person the Vulgarist hate - (Oh yeah - 'Vulgarist' - are the Tea Party idiots; a spawn of the Republican party). How can they be so incompetent to call a registered democrat - and a liberal ... and a socialist - their worse nightmare!
If they can't even call their own supporters - how incompetent are they! - The supporters of immorals like Nixon and war mongers like Bush - they have no concept of decency and reality and are incompetent idiots to top it all. May USA be free of them. Amen!









Friday Foxes
I saw two foxes siting under the tree in our front yard. Monika took some pictures as they ran around the neighborhood. They were sitting under the bird feeder in our yard and then went across the street and finally left the block. They are looking for little dogs or cats or squirrels for a snack.
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Emily is here


Emily Mariana Neptune was born yesterday (April 22nd). She is Leticia and Eric's baby. We saw them today; everyone is doing great. Eric's mother Bonnie is here for a couple of months to take care of the new baby.

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New Dishwasher and Grill
         We got the dishwasher installed in the main-floor kitchen (and will put the old one in the bar area in the basement). The stainless dishwasher has a modern look and is very quiet - the controls are in the top panel (hidden when closed).
        The grill is also stainless and has infra-red technology which is supposed to be faster, better and cheaper. I have only used it twice and am still figuring out how best to use it (the old one was recycled to a friends' friend who can use it). I had mastered the old one (with help from Octavio) but this is different - hopefully I will know it well enough in a few weeks - before the basement parties!


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Basement Finishing








Ok, since we are not going to be moving to Colombia or elsewhere for the time being, we decided to finish the basement. We are going to have a Ping-pong room; a bar/entertainment area, a full bath, a studio and enclose the laundry and the utility rooms as well as keep the two small storage areas under the steps. The estimate process was enlightening, the estimates ranged from $10,500 to $32,500. I had initially thought that I need to move the furnace and water-heater; so, the initial estimates should have been higher; later, we figured out (after buying and assembling and using the Ping-pong table) that we didn't need to move the furnace and heater. But the second estimates were even higher.
In any case, we have decided to go with Tony, who is the husband of a friend of Monika. He excluded the bar area cabinets (both over and under the counter) - so the total cost should be around 16K for this part of the project.
All the videos are very large - so don't click on them unless you have broadband. I took a video before any work started - the shelves that I built are still attached in this video. I shot another video a week later when the initial work - rough electrical, plumbing and heating had been done and a third video after the two-by- fours were done. Here are some other pictures and more details from various days.








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