Pavers, Koi and Candles

Sorry about not posting, I really am.  I’ve been doing a lot of work in our yard and that takes me away from my computer.  Lindsay is at a candle party tonight so I actually have a little time to do some writing. 

This past weekend we tore up our porch to fix the sink hole and it worked out great except when we moved the bottom step the whole thing fell apart so we had to rebuild the step from the ground up, that project isn’t entirely finished yet, but it will be soon.  We also took down some branches and I was splitting wood with an axe like a friggen lumberjack, it took me right back to my boyscout days. 

The other big project that we have been working on is our Koi pond.  The pond was there when we moved in so we decided to utilize it.  We built up a waterfall and got a few plants and finally on Saturday we put some Koi in.  They were really shy at first but just today they started to come out more and swim around.  They are actually coming up to the surface to say “hi”   Except that when they see one of us they still get scared and swim away.  Oh well, it’s a start.  We noticed that the pond started to get really murky today so we picked up some kind of… um… anti murky potion to try and fix it.

What else?  Um…. all the updates that XP needs on a fresh install are really dumb.  Testdisk is a really cool partition recovery program.  I’m going to Des Moines on Saturday so that I can turn around and come back…. that means I have to have my iPod all prepped and ready to go.  I really like Ubuntu and I can’t wait to try Linux MCE.

-Josh

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