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| Bradford Pear trees - look great but smell awful! Our apt./house in the background. |
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| Jacely's trampoline blown to smithereens |
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| inside shop room |
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| the shop is filling up! |
Busy, busy at the house last week with the septic tank and lines going in, the plumbers fitting pipes, the heat and A/C guys "venting" the house, and the brick masons working outside - plus Todd pulling all the electrical lines. Whew! And all that happened in between spring storms with rain and winds that blew Jacely's trampoline into the pine trees! Electricity is permanently in place now, underground from the box in the back of the yard, to the house and on to the shop. The meter is running! The bricks are 3/4 of the way around the house. The shop is almost complete...4 fans up (2 on the porch and 2 in the front room), 9 can lights and 5 flourescent lights, hot water heater, shop sink, bath (minus the toilet), painted, stained, trimmed. Only waiting for the floor in the front room and bath. I'd say 90% finished. Tommy's unloaded so much stuff into the shop area that he says he already needs to expand it. Yeah - like that's gonna happen! Time to build and fill shelves and use the shop attic.
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| Leprechaun Jacely |
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| Leprechaun JD |
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| Miss Jacely at the pageant |
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| with her trophy |
On another but equally pertinent note...Dublin goes crazy in March over St. Patrick's Day. It's a month-long affair with pageants, parades, fairs, exhibitions, lectures, hot air balloons, contests - a little bit of everything. Just this week Jacely and JD participated in the "Littlest Leprechaun" contest. Jacely took second place out of 30 entrants and while JD didn't place, he stole the show with his glen plaid pants, green sequin tie, matching billed hat and a beard and smile artfully crafted on to his pacifier. Quite a night! Then today, Jacely was first runner-up in the Little Miss Erin Go Bragh beauty pageant. One excited little lady! Looking forward to a beautiful week ahead with temps predicted in the 70's. And - most important of all - it's JD's first birthday on the 17th. I can't believe the little St. Pat's baby is a year old already.
