Coming Home

Every day when I come home to work, I look forward to two things. See the boys and seeing what my dad has done around the house.

On Saturday, I came home from the Trek100 ride to find that my dad had installed the two new lights outside the doors and changed out the light fixture in the ceiling fan in the kitchen.

Today I came home to find my gutters fixed. The transition strips from the hardwood floors to the laminate in the kitchen and the tile in the bathroom were also installed.

It is always a surprise to see what he has done next. I know that I am very lucky to have someone who knows what he is doing (he was a carpenter for many years) and is willing to come over and fix things when need be. I have my dad-to-do list and whenever I make a run to Home Depot and spend money I call him up and tell him what I have purchased. He then plans out his week to stop over and demolish, install or fix stuff.

My to do list now has on it:

• Install mailbox (I need to buy one first). it is currently on a pole and I want it installed on the side of the house.
• Fix the leak by the hot water heater. There is a slow drip.
• Fix the glass block in the window wells that are cracked
• Remove the old caulk from the seams in the driveway and replace with something else.
• Put soffets in the roof.
• Put in new windows. I have three of them that have leaks. With all the rain we got, one of them has water between the panes of glass. Once again, I have to buy those first. This may be a late fall project as it will be a bit pricey.
• Put insulation in the attic. Also a fall project as the attic is now way to warm to be hanging out in.
• Rip the carpet up in my office.
• Fix the garage door. It doesn't want to close right. Not sure what the issue is but sometimes it take me 5-6 times of opening/closing it before it will go down all the way.

If it were not for my dad I would be spending a TON of coin hiring people to do things. Needless to say his Father's day gift will be nice.

ZOBMONDO!!

Would you rather....

Lick the tongue of a random dog for 30 seconds

----OR----

steal a bone from a pit bull?

I have to go with the stealing the bone. No one said it was a mean pitbull.