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Washington (CNN) — The official business of the 57th inauguration commenced on Sunday with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden completing their oaths of office, quietly satisfying the constitutional obligation to be sworn in on January 20.
The presidential and vice presidential swearings-in took place a day before Obama and Biden take their public oaths at the Capitol in front of hundreds of thousands gathered on the National Mall.
Obama's swearing-in took place in the ornate Blue Room, an oval-shaped reception space in the president's official residence, where the president was joined by his wife, Michelle, and his two daughters. Other members of his family, including the first lady's mother and brother, stood out of view of the camera.
Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath to Obama – his third time to hold that honor. After Roberts flubbed the order of words during the public ceremony in 2009, a do-over took place in the White House Map Room the next day to erase any question that Obama was officially the president.
Roberts didn't have any trouble with the 35-word oath this time around. He read from a white note card with the words printed on it. Slash marks where Roberts paused to have Obama repeat the words were clearly visible.
The event took less than a minute and Obama didn't make any remarks or statements.
He did take a moment to hug his wife and daughters, exclaiming: "I did it!"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor performed the honors for Biden at his home at the Naval Observatory in Washington, where was sworn in under a painting by American artist N.C. Wyeth of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural – an event remembered for the 16th president's solemn address.
That was hardly the mood Sunday at Biden's home, where the vice president's extended family and a few Cabinet officials gathered to watch the ceremony.
His son Beau – Delaware's attorney general – was there, as were his other children, Hunter and Ashley, and a smattering of Biden grandchildren.
He placed his hand on a massive Biden family Bible, held by his wife Jill, and repeated the oath.
Both Obama and Biden traveled to Arlington National Cemetery after Biden's swearing-in for a traditional wreath-laying ceremony.
And the president and his family attended services celebrating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the most historic churches in Washington.
The tone of Obama's inaugural address Monday will be "hopeful," White House senior adviser David Plouffe said Sunday.
"What he's going to do is remind the country that our founding principles and values still can guide us in a changing and modern world," Plouffe said on CNN's "State of the Union."
"He's going to talk about the fact that our political system doesn't require us to resolve all of our disputes or settle all of our differences but it doesn't compel us to act where there shouldn't and is common ground," Plouffe added. "He's going to make that point very clearly."
Plouffe underscored that Obama's State of the Union address, to take place February 12, will present a more specific "blueprint" of the next four years.
The nation's first African-American president will become only the 17th U.S. leader to deliver a second inaugural address, before he joins the traditional parade up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House.
Organizers expect 800,000 people to attend Monday's public ceremony — less than half of the estimated 1.8 million onlookers who crammed the National Mall in 2009.
The smaller crowd this time around reflects the reality of second-term presidencies, when the novelty and expectations of a new leader have been replaced with the familiarity and experiences of the first four years.
Inauguration activities kicked off on Saturday with Obama and first lady Michelle Obama and Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, leading volunteers across the country in National Day of Service Activities.
The Obamas joined in a project at Burrville Elementary School in Washington, aiding volunteers who were sprucing up furniture. Cameras at the school caught the president and first lady staining a bookcase.
The president told volunteers that his family would do volunteer projects on holidays. "So I was taught from a young age," he said, that volunteering "is really what America is all about."
The Bidens volunteered at the National Guard Armory in Washington, helping to put together care packages for service members deployed overseas. Biden's office said volunteers at the armory would produce 100,000 packages.
"We still have 68,000 troops in harm's way in some of the most godforsaken territory in the world," Biden said, adding that the military members can find comfort "knowing that we back home just remember, we know what's going on."
Chelsea Clinton, honorary chairwoman of the Day of Service, said at a kickoff event on the National Mall that Saturday was the 19th anniversary of the day her father, former President Bill Clinton, signed the bill that designated a National Day of Service to coincide with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday honoring the late civil rights leader.
"When he signed the bill, he reminded us of what Dr. King called life's most persistent and urgent question: What are you doing for others?" she said. "And in my family, the only wrong answer to that question is 'nothing.' "
Later Saturday, singer Katy Perry headlined a concert for children of military families and Washington schoolchildren, hosted by Michelle Obama and Jill Biden. Singer Usher and the cast of the TV show "Glee" were among others who performed.
The Saturday event was to recognize the sacrifices and "level of maturity that is required from military kids," the first lady said.
"It means always thinking about things that are so much bigger than yourself. It means growing up just a little faster and working just a little harder than other kids," she said. "And it means doing the greatest thing you can ever do with your life at such a young age, and that is to serve our country."
Sunday evening, the Obamas will watch Latino acts at "In Performance at the Kennedy Center," which is followed by the Let Freedom Ring concert. The Red, White and Blue Inaugural Ball and Hip-Hop Inaugural Ball are also scheduled in the capital.
The president will speak to donors at a candlelight celebration at the National Building Museum on Sunday night.
Monday's events will be downsized from Obama's first inauguration. After events in front of the Capitol, the Obamas and Bidens will lead the traditional parade down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. There are only two presidential balls this year, down from the 10 staged in 2009.
While the anticipated crowd for Monday's events is expected to be about half the size of the one that gathered four years ago, the temperature will be a bit higher than in 2009, when the high hovered around the freezing mark. While the early morning temperature this time will be in the 20s, the forecast calls for a high temperature in the upper 30s or low 40s. Still, organizers cautioned attendees to bundle up because they're likely to experience prolonged exposure to the cold as they watch the events and make their way to and from them.
CNN's Tom Cohen, Dana Davidsen, Brianna Keilar, Kevin Liptak, Dan Lothian and Gregory Wallace contributed to this report


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Swish, Swish, Swish! Z is for Zondervan
When I was a kid, I loved watching old black-and-white episodes of Zorro, the swashbuckling hero of Spanish California. After foiling some plan of the corrupt Spanish governor or defeating outlaws of every conceivable stripe, Zorro would carve the letter Z into a nearby wall or tree or—most satisfying of all—into the clothing of his now disarmed and cowering enemy. The mark of Zorro struck fear into the heart of bullies and brigands while promising freedom and justice to the people.
In the (hopefully!) less violent world of Biblical studies, the letter Z stands not for Zorro, but for Zondervan, and while it may not promise liberation from tyranny, it does promise reference works and study aids of the highest quality. We are therefore very pleased to announce the release of three new Accordance modules bearing the mark of the Z: ZEB, ZIBBCOT, and ZIBBCNT.
The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible (ZEB) consists of five volumes, more than 5,000 pages, and more than 7,500 articles on every conceivable subject related to the Bible. ZEB has been a classic Bible study resource for more than thirty years, and this new edition has been thoroughly revised to provide up-to-date entries based on the latest scholarship. Not only is it packed with useful information; it's also packed with 1800 high-quality color photographs, maps, and illustrations—all of which can now easily be mined using Accordance 9's new Search All feature. Swish!
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I made a deal with my kids about their college educations. It's very simple: I'll pay half and they'll pay half. How they pay for their share is up to them, but I match every dollar they earn in scholarships, pay for themselves or take out in a loan.
When I tell other parents about this, some of them look at me like I'm Attila the Hun. "Unthinkable" their expressions say. "You would force your kids to pay for something when you can afford it yourself?"
I have good reasons.
I have seen what happens to many young people who take what I call the "Budweiser Scholarship" of a parent-paid education. Often, 18- and 19-year-olds are clueless about what they want to do with their life and $20,000-$40,000 per year is an awfully steep price for discovery. Most people have a greater appreciation for something when they pay for it themselves - they have skin in the game.
I have four children, and each one has responded differently to the challenge.
With my encouragement, my oldest son took a year off to work in the "real world" before beginning his studies. Toiling at a job open to a high school grad convinced him of the value of college. He then worked for a state environmental program that gave him a sizable education grant, which I matched. His grade-point average was higher in college than in high school. He was only too happy to work summers, and when he graduated, he started his career with no college debt.
My second son has worked as a waiter to supplement his education costs and that has made him very selective about how he spends his tuition money. He is focused on creative arts. He makes sure every course counts so he will graduate on time.
My daughter took advantage of a program in her senior year that let her graduate from high school with a year's worth of college credit for free. It lets her finish college in three years. That was clever. Since she earned one full year of college credits for free, I matched it by paying for one full year. So now she just has to split the cost of the last two years.
We will see how my youngest son reacts. He is still in high school and living in a virtual reality world that does not yet include much thought about college.
As I share this idea around the country, I find I'm not the only parent who has decided to avoid spending tons of money on unsettled youth with whimsical aspirations and no financial responsibilities.
And the truth is that most people facing retirement years just can't afford to flush multi-thousands of dollars, no matter how much they love their children. Education money must be well spent.
Some parents have told me about a "First Lap" plan where the child pays for freshman year. If that year ends with a decent grade-point average, the parents pay the other three years. Not a bad idea, especially considering how many freshmen select a major not in liberal arts but liberal parties.
With so many kids dawdling though five or six years of undergraduate work, some parents offer bonuses if their children finish early.
Many parents are just frustrated that their children don't take much interest in their expensive education if they don't help pay for it. One parent told me that since his children didn't contribute toward college, they didn't feel any urgency to get a job. He wasn't thrilled about having 28-year-olds at home.
With my own family, our journey through college is not over. But we have learned that our plan has encouraged our kids to develop a good work ethic, to remain focused on courses that will be valuable to their lives and to be more prepared when they enter college to know why they are there.
Hard-working, focused and prepared. I don't know of a college course that teaches those life skills. Perhaps it is something you can only learn if you have skin in the game.
[ Mitch Anthony, founder and president of the Financial Life Planning Institute, is the author of "The New Retirementality: Planning Your Life and Living Your Dreams ... at Any Age You Want." ]
Split College Costs With Kids
I made a deal with my kids about their college educations. It's very simple: I'll pay half and they'll pay half. How they pay for their share is up to them, but I match every dollar they earn in scholarships, pay for themselves or take out in a loan.


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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, the holiest day on the American secular calendar. Really: Who doesn't like Thanksgiving? Great holiday. Family, friends, football. Just a lovely delight of a day.
And we think we know everything there is to know about the holiday, right? Pilgrims, Native Americans, turkey, the works. Well, I'm here to shed some new light on Thanksgiving. After conducting - on my own time- literally billions of hours of research and interviews, I've discovered 12 previously unknown or unreported facts about the holiday.
Ready to dazzle your grandma at the Thanksgiving table tomorrow? Here we go …
1) Samuel L. Jackson's grand-grand-grand-(you get the idea)-grandfather was actually a member of the Wampanoag tribe, and was present at the first Thanksgiving. When faced with the prospect of dining with the settlers, he was a little less than happy. In fact, he's reported to have said, 'Get these mutha(bleep)ing pilgrims off this mutha(bleep)ing Plymouth Rock.' True story.
2) Over 46 million turkeys are eaten each year on Thanksgiving, and 45.9 million of them are not good. At all. Dry. Blech. Seriously. Would it kill you to baste the damn thing every 20 minutes or so? Put down the Pinot Grigio and baste. Thank you.
3) Sweet potatoes and yams are the virtually the same thing. Only difference is yams have a prize in the middle. And a chewy center.
4) Each Thanksgiving at 5:42 p.m. local time, an uncle falls asleep on a couch. And once his chin hits his chest and then bounces back up in that weird, sleeping-while-sitting-on-a-couch kind of way, an angel gets their wings.
5) By presidential decree, no one is allowed to use the bathroom in the bedroom, OK? Got it? Because really, that's like, private area. Off-limits. I've got drugs in the medicine cabinet, it's dirty, just stay out.
6) Stuffing was recently ranked by God as the best food in the known universe. Beer came in second, for the record. God knows his food. Amen.
7) Deep fried turkey was invented by Paul A. Heimstikiepiliousberg during the Great New Hampshire Canola Oil Spill of 1815.
8) Kind of off-topic, and really, just directed toward my wife, but ... let me just watch the football games, OK? OK?
9) The tradition of your cousin and his mousy wife and their weird kids staying two hours after the pumpkin pie was served was a tradition first started by Sqaunto at the very first Thanksgiving. Dude would just not leave. Pilgrims were all like, 'Boy, am I full! I could sleep for days! I'm so tired, that I bet if I was a sleepwalker, I'd walk right off the Earth!' and Squanto was all like, 'You guys got Sega? Let's play some Madden Lacrosse!'
10) Green bean casserole is a terrorist plot. Except for the French's French Fried Onions. Those things are just delicious. Eat 'em right outta the can.
11) The phrase 'Have a Happy Thankgiving,' when translated into the tongue of many Native American tribes, sounds suspiciously like, 'Thanks for the smallpox, jerkface.'
12) Well this really isn't a fact, just a statement of my desire to wish each and every one of you a thanks for the smallpox, jerkface. Be safe out there, and make sure to leave my house at a reasonable hour. I'd like to get to sleep.
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It's been 12 years since Geocaching.com came to life on a home computer in the spare bedroom of a Seattle-area apartment on September 2, 2000. At that time, fewer than 100 geocaches had been hidden around the globe. Twelve years later, more than 1,000 geocaches are hidden by geocachers and published by volunteer reviewers each day.
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The Pisser-Possum, Phil-in-Booze Morrow, LiarBill MumpsNut & Me
I don't believe a word liars say at all. FWIW, here is the whole story regarding "Phil in Boaz:"
After having been out of the loop with Christian Identity for a number of years, Visser was the first person whose site I ran across. The atmosphere there was contentious and most of my time was spent arguing with somebody called Joe and a couple of others like seedliner, Archivist, Admin, K 2, and Astragoth - all of them personas of the same individual, Jeromy Visser.
While on that site, I was contacted by some guy called Phil in Boaz. He had a discussion board called remnantsite. I posted there a couple of times. remnantsite, like most of these "Identity" sites had very few members (less than here or Visser's site.) So, Phil contacts me one day and all the contact we've had has been is via two discussion boards. He asked if I would mind running the board and being a moderator. He even gave me full access to the board.
A week later, he contacted me via phone. So, we've had a total of ONE phone communication. He was trying to get me to completely take over the board, but I already had one and none of us are doing too hot. He did not fully explain the situation. The real situation was Phil was having personal problems and was about to lose the board. He did not have the money to keep it up and have a couple of rocks of crack. In fact ZOGbot Silly Roper was furnishing the 25 ZOGbux per month on the Bronze Plan. When, as a moderator, I found that out, I tried to purchase the board and keep it going. When I attempted to call this Phil up, his phone was disconnected. He probably was sent back to prison for a parole violation from a DUI. Without his written consent, I could not take over the board.
Tracking down Phil's parents and telling them to have him call me yielded no results. The money due to keep the board up lapsed and remnantsite disappeared because it was on the $25-per-month Bronze Plan. So, three PMs and a phone call are the extent of the relationship between myself and Phil. He did register on a militia board I over-see, but he introduced himself and that was the last we heard from him there.
I don't know him personally; don't know his background and there was nothing wrong with him offering to have me take over the board. Had I known he had to come up with a couple of hundred bucks or lose it, I would have bought it from him and kept it going, but that would have been a business decision as a bowel Movement ZOGbot for hire.
If Jeromy Visser would like to say something to me personally, I'm not like the rest of the people on these boards. I'm an hour or so drive from Visser and he can meet me face to face any time he likes. BTW, I have access to professional quality video people that would gladly record any kind of face to face Visser is up for. Like MumpsNut, I'm a pussy, but an older ZOGbot pussy with a license to ill.
Let me tell everybody this:
Visser has no more qualifications to be teaching the Word than I do. I got involved in by way of people like Dan Gayman (my primary mentor and still personal friend & fellow ZOGbot), Sheldon Emry (a fellow Sephardic Melungeon "No Devil" ZOGbot), Bob Miles, Earl Jones, Thom Robb (another ZOGbot pseudo-See-Eye Dentist Lite & FiBbIe for-profit Klansmamzer), George Udvary and another of my own mentors (and co-founder of the Militia of Georgia) Lt. Col. Gordon "Jack/Squirrely" Mohr. Single seedline, Dual seedline and everything in between & especially papist-preterist No Devil See-Eye Dentistry are not new to me. The people I mentioned are the ones I personally (like face to face, one on one) knew at the time. When you've been around since 1976, you tend to meet a lot of people while acting as an agent provocateur.
As a fellow mamzer playing See-Eye Dentistry Visser is not in much of a position to talk down to me. When I went on his site, like that of Baal Finck's papist-preterist No-Devil "us jews are not the spawn of Satan" ZOGbot site, all he wanted to was belittle and demean anyone that did not agree with him 100 percent. If / when you challenged his lordship, he tries to pretend that you are somehow unfit to even claim Christ as your personal savior.
Everybody else can have their petty problems with Visser, but if he and his sockpuppet entourage want some, then come get some. Visser does not have a monopoly on Christian Identity; his message does not square with the teachings of Swift OR Comparet. visser only got "ordained" by some desperate Identity advocate who went to prison over a scheme to rob banks in Alabama for Bolivian nose-candy three generations behind Wesley Swift. Visser has never taken the course that Comparet used to train potential pastors which Mike Hallimore uses as a profit center selling it to mamzers and ZOGtards wanting to claim to be a See-Eye Dentist "pastor".
Visser's mother was still changing his nasty diapers on the Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation the first time I gave a sermon in an Identity church. BTW, it was a physical church, not in front of a camera hooked to a computer in my bedroom. If Visser wants to challenge my qualifications versus his, game on. Some days I think that the more we acknowledge Visser, the more we help him - even if he does want his name to be associated with conflicts that always end with him getting schooled and then having to run back to his little discussion board and use his various personas to try and convince himself of his greatness.
Most of my career since 1987 was spent trying to make a difference in the political, legal, and related arenas. Despite that, I have remained a student of the Word. Like Obie, I've probably won over more people to the Word by accident than Visser has on purpose. Any time Visser wants to cut the crap and talk to me face to face, I'm not a hard man to find. For him, or anyone else supporting him, to pretend they are any more qualified in C.I. than yours truly, let's find out in person - not on the net. And, finally, if there were any more involvement than what I described above relative to Phil in Boaz, I would disclose it to you.
Your 85 IQ on a good day, 250-lbs of dogshit in a 150-lb meatsack, lying delusional MumpsNutted alleged niglet-niece molesting ZOGbot troll will be back. He won't be able to resist reading what others had to say about his waste of time rant which you dug up and recycled on your Aussie poofter-tranny fake-forum.
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Game review: 'Company of Heroes 2' retains winning formula
When it comes to real-time strategy games, there's "StarCraft," "WarCraft" -- and everything else. Blizzard's franchises blanket the genre so much that it's rare for anything to break through the company's dominance. But once in a while, a title does just that.
In 2006, Relic Entertainment impressed players by taking them to World War II and revealing a fresh take on the RTS. "Company of Heroes" was slower paced, hypertactical and brutally difficult. It was so different from its peers that it deserved recognition. No one had played anything like it before.
Now, the long-awaited sequel, "Company of Heroes 2," has arrived.
Thankfully, it sticks to its winning formula. Relic refines what it already has, introducing players to the Soviet side of the conflict and adding weather and ice effects that factor into the battle.
Most of the campaign focuses on Lt. Lev Isakovich, who leads a battalion of troops as they fend off the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The story itself is boilerplate war drama as a former commander interviews Isakovich about his past, and players tackle the missions in Isakovich's flashbacks and other stories.
That's where the heart of the campaign is, but don't expect Relic to hold players' hands as they learn "Company of Heroes 2." The developer tosses players in the deep end and expects them to swim. For novices, it will be frustrating to adjust to the flow of combat or figuring out how the tech tree and build structure function. Tactical moves such as laying out barbed wire or reconnaissance flights are glossed over or ignored, and it's up to players to discover them.
In the campaign, players will learn that it's not about the number of troops but how they use them. They'll have to keep soldiers warm in the Russian winter by moving them from fire to fire, or they'll have to use the environment and break the ice beneath an enemy tank to send it plunging into a river.
Missions are methodical and require players to soften up enemy bases with mortar fire before sending in tanks and other troops. It may require them to block off a choke point with machine gunners while flanking enemies with heavy armor on the side. It's all about micromanaging an army and letting the economy work itself out.
All of this prepares gamers for the online modes, where they team up or battle each other with armies they build from scratch. Whether it's in versus or co-op combat, speed is more of a factor, but successful commanders will know how to defend areas, flank and set up ambushes. It will test players' mettle, but the thrill of victory is as rewarding as any game as long as you have the patience.
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Jan Pietersz (d. 1572)
Jan Pietersz (Jan Pieterssen, Jan Piers), an Anabaptist martyr, was burned at the stake in 1572 at Breda, Dutch province of North Brabant. Jan Pietersz was a weaver. In 1563 he was baptized during a night by Leenaert Bouwens at Leiden, where then lived. Later he had stayed at Vlaardingen and then at Klundert near Breda. Anabaptist meetings were held in his house. A meeting of 5 August 1571, where about 50 persons were present, was surprised and a number of persons arrested, including Jan Pietersz. He refused to take an oath and died steadfast.
Braght, Thieleman J. van. Het Bloedigh Tooneel of Martelaers Spiegel der Doopsgesinde of Weereloose Christenen, Die om 't getuygenis van Jesus haren Salighmaker geleden hebben ende gedood zijn van Christi tijd of tot desen tijd toe. Den Tweeden Druk. Amsterdam: Hieronymus Sweerts, 1685: II, 603-605.
Braght, Thieleman J. van. The Bloody Theatre or Martyrs' Mirror of the Defenseless Christians Who Baptized Only upon Confession of Faith and Who Suffered and Died for the Testimony of Jesus Their Saviour . . . to the Year A.D. 1660. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1951: 629-631. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1912): 30-35.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 372.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Jan Pietersz (d. 1572)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 18 Sep 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jan_Pietersz_(d._1572)&oldid=145829.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1957). Jan Pietersz (d. 1572). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 18 September 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jan_Pietersz_(d._1572)&oldid=145829.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 80. All rights reserved.
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When you buy a home, there are always changes that you want to make and almost all of them are on a priority list with finances being the guiding factor. We looked at so many homes before buying this one. We loved the layout, the floor plan and the neighborhood was perfect, but the cosmetics and color schemes weren't our style. There were baby steps with the changes in carpeting, removing wall paper, painting etc. One big painting job was the exterior.
Here is the exterior of the house from the real estate agent's picture in 1993…
If you're on a house hunt, remember to always look past cosmetic things like painting, because that can always be changed.
Come on in to see all the transformations over the years…
The exterior layer of the house was stucco and the windows had brown metal frames. Soon after we purchased the house in 1993, we painted the stucco a light gray color and I spray painted the window frames white.
I literally covered the glass part with paper and tape and sprayed the brown metal with white paint. I did it before my husband painted the house, so I didn't have to be careful when spraying. It lasted almost 9 years until we put in new windows.
Somewhere between 1998-1999, we painted the house a slate blue gray color. We wanted a darker color from the light gray we originally picked.
A few years later the stucco started to fail on several areas all around the house. You can see a big chunk missing under that left front window.
That lead to a bigger renovation in 2002. We replaced all the doors and all the windows to double hung paned windows. We picked a tan color for the vinyl siding. No more painting for my husband!!!
However, life can throw you a curve ball in a heart beat. My mom's health took a turned for the worse that year. She had suffered from Parkinson's Disease for over 10 years and needed full time care. The decision was to have my parents move in with us.
Construction project here we come...
In October of 2003, the new siding that just went on…just came off. The contractors did save it though and reused it on the back side of the house!! That's Kelsie in that bobcat. She looks so young!
We had long months of living in the construction zone and more curve balls from life along the way, but we made it through. Maybe I'll do a post just on the construction project itself. I know there's a life lesson in that somewhere.
Here's a before and after collage, so you can see the original outline of the house.
In the original house, the left side had our 3 bedrooms. The new construction added an in-law apartment on that left side. There was new construction there, plus a remodel of those 3 bedrooms. That's why we had to add the second story on the upper right side to replace our bedrooms.
These next few pictures are before and afters of the driveway side of the house and what we did with a big boulder.
This picture was in the summer of 1995 and the girls were having a lemonade stand. Just out of the picture frame in the beginning part of the gravel driveway was a small rock that stuck up out of the ground.
When we finished the house project, we wanted to pave the driveway, so the "small" rock had to come out.
We weren't sure what we were going to do with it, so I had the bulldozer guy just push it off to the side. It was going to cost a fortune to have that heavy thing hauled away. We placed it here and found the flattest side of the rock. I had a stone cutter come out and he carved our last name and our street address on the face of the rock. It's carved out in a pretty font and the letters were done in black. It looks so nice. Sorry, but I blocked it out for the the picture. It only cost $200…way cheaper than the cost to have the boulder removed.
Great family story and perfect stone for that area. If we ever sell the house, the new owners can just flip the rock over and have it carved again!!
I hope you enjoyed the journey we've had with our home. Lots of stories and lots of memories…with many more to come.
Thanks for stopping by,


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Read here. First Driver, now apparently Charles Woodson. It seems sure that Woodson will be released. On paper, his release makes some sense. He has been injured often in recent years and he was set to count $10 mil against the cap this coming year. He's also 36 and slower and not as quick as he once was. And, there is some young talent that may need spots to open up so they can get their opportunities.
But where this may hurt the most is his presence. Woodson is a leader – a credible leader young guys respect. He is a true professional dedicated to his craft and he has been an absolutely stellar role model for younger players ever since joining the Packer family. Veteran "presence" is an intangible benefit that is difficult to quantify but his departure will leave a leadership void in the secondary. Even when he was injured over the past few years, he was around and maintained his "presence". Tramon Williams suddenly becomes the "veteran" guy – and he's coming off a 2nd consecutive questionable year. (Fortunately, Tramon has learned from Woodson how to lead via example etc, but I just don't think he has the capacity to be the same kind of leader.) Yes, Hayward and House being there make me feel a little better about the succession plan, but I still worry about the veteran leadership void on the defense.
Despite slowing down a bit, it's hard to imagine Woodson not moving on to help a team somewhere given he's just a couple years removed from one of the most impressive defensive seasons any DB has had in a long time.
In the end, these are really difficult decisions to make. I think TT's strength (and sometimes weakness) is being able to make cold, calculated decisions about personnel. But this can be a weakness at times too because I believe his pro-youth bias has left a few of his teams lacking in the veteran leadership department – and this can be a missing factor for taking a team to another level (see Ray Lewis). In the end, if I were GM, I probably would have asked Woodson to take a substantial pay cut in an effort to keep him around for another year. But it sounds a little like Woodson may not have been willing to entertain this option – so I guess I may have cut him too.
As GM – what would you have done?


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