Week Two Construction and Downsizing Update

Week Two Construction and Downsizing Update
I think there is an inverse correlation between the frequency of blogging and how busy someone is. The silence here should be indicative how exactly how insane the last week was for the both of us. However, as far as making progress on our dreams, this was the best week yet. We started off at a fairly calm pace. Mark and I did a large quantity of tree pruning, replaced one wall of paneling on the old detached garage and finished getting the porch squared up and ready to go. [Read More]

Week One Construction Update

Week One Construction Update
It’s been amazing to see what can get done in a week if you can get the time to focus on it. I started this week with a laundry list of home and garden tasks, some of which I had been ignoring for years. I end this week with some major projects done and progress on many others. The major task of this week was my front porch which has been long needing to be re-decked. [Read More]

It Starts with a First Step

It Starts with a First Step
It’s been a frustrating few weeks for me on the home liquidation front. Partially, I felt stuck in a rut of analysis paralysis; constantly planning and no action. However, mostly it just not finding time to get anything done. Between my day job, my side work on Fore & Aft Design and just the stuff that we have to do to keep our lives afloat, there just wasn’t enough hours in the day. [Read More]

A New Dream

A New Dream
For me, it started with a dream of boats and wide open spaces. While growing up in Oklahoma City can’t be described as exactly living in a concrete jungle, it also wasn’t the exactly the great wide open either. I then spent several years in Chicago, which really was the concrete jungle before returning once again to Oklahoma. And yet, my favorite memories are of traveling through wide open vistas, whether family camping trips through Big Bend, TX, backpacking in New Mexico or any number of bicycle trips. [Read More]

Lake Overholser Water Release

Lake Overholser Water Release
After 3 years of endless drought, we here in central Oklahoma at least, were with desperately needed rain. It’s gotten so extreme, that our city reservoirs must release water to prevent flooding. After a tip from my Mother, Grace and I took a little photo date down to the Lake Overholser Dam to catch some photos and videos of the water release. Now if we could get some more rain for western part of the state, things would be really looking good. [Read More]

#30DaysofBiking Day 22-23: Back to the Grind

#30DaysofBiking Day 22-23: Back to the Grind
#30DaysofBiking Day 22 I guess the best thing about day 22 was that there was nothing unusual about day 22. It was the first day in awhile were I just rode to work and back. The headwind on the way home was a bit strong, but it wasn’t too bad. Little did I know what the next day had in store for me. #30DaysofBiking Day 23 I thought it was supposed to be spring. [Read More]

#30DaysofBiking Days 19 - 21: Progress!

#30DaysofBiking Days 19 - 21: Progress!
Still haven’t been able to get back completely into the regular posting schedule, but thankfully I’ve been able to keep riding! #30DaysofBiking Day 19: Just Another Day at Work I continue to get most of my cycling through my daily commute to work. The big change I’ve made is to start riding more and more in my work clothes instead of always wearing a change. My short ride is only 6. [Read More]

#30DaysofBiking Days 13 - 18: Failure, Triumph and Baseball

#30DaysofBiking Days 13 - 18: Failure, Triumph and Baseball
After a very long and tiring week, I’m finally getting a chance to catch up on my #30DaysofBiking posting. #30DaysofBiking Day 13 - Failure And then I have to start with a failure on my 30 day goal. As I’ve long been reporting, I have toiled away on the replacing of a sewer line. While it has been a great learning experience, a fantastic workout and the source of innumerable Cool Hand Luke jokes, it was also drug on much longer than I would have hoped or dreamed. [Read More]