I was just flipping through my kids’ web site, looking for an image, saw this one of my boy two years ago and I swear my heart skipped a beat. It’s not the best picture of him but something about seeing that baby plus a flash of the boy he’s become all mixed up in that same expression just about made me jump out of my chair. Other baby photos of him don’t seem to do this (yep, I just checked) so why this one?Â
Man, I hate when I start the day off all weird like that.
July 23rd, 2008
Ok, so this is not the most exciting topic ever, but bear with me. Our back patio is sinking. Like it’s dropped almost a foot in places over the past 40 years. So one of these years (soon. ugh.) we’re going to have to rip it out and re-do it.
Unfortunately it’s not going to be some cool, colorful epoxy terrazzo masterpiece. It’s going to be something cheap. Preferably something we can DIY. We could have concrete poured. But it’s either plain-ass boring ol’ gray, or it’s hella-expensive schmancy stained and stamped stuff. We could do brick — but we have enough finishes on our house as it is (wood siding, metal siding, Hardie board, other color of brick that would be impossible to match), we don’t need to add another. I could go for natural stone (mmmmm… bluestone) but, again with the dollars. Or we could do pavers. Which usually make me want to scream with their twee shapes and obnoxious pink hues, but then I saw these modern pavers. And Hallelujah! mine eyes have seen the light! See how it’s all skinny and cool-shaped? See how it sorta looks like a plank floor? Woo-hoo! Concrete pavers!
July 23rd, 2008
