Wealth and fame she's ignored.

I had help. My mom bought the newspapers, and I filled out the entry forms. So when you see the businesses that won some periodical's 'Best of' contest, maybe they are the 'Best Thai Restaurant' around OR MAYBE there's just someone out there with a cramped writing hand and a dearth of quarters.

In other news, the Mister and I have been replacing the THREE big picture windows on the rental. It's Brady Bunch era design and so a wall-o-windows was apparently a must-have. The center one developed a crack during a sharp freeze (or the tenants cracked it and played innocent). Either way, each of the big, double-paned windows had all failed over the years and developed some condensation between the panes so we decided to be proactive and replace all three. Nothing like taking apart something you recently caulked and repainted. Oh well. The new windows are much nicer than the old ones. Since we are saving about $1000 in labor costs by doing it ourselves, we've been using that as justification for going out to eat whenever we put in a day's work on it. Generally at the 'Best Asian Resturant' of 2012, which probably won honestly.

And when I'm not working on that, I've been gardening up a storm. ( Read more... )

And I even took pictures. Plus my garden in August. I've failed to take pics at the beginning of Sept. and Oct. Ah well.

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