The project bug... and other sundries

First, I've been scolded by a few of you already for the long break in blogging. Let's just say it hasn't been top of mind for the past few months... I think the only way to change that is to start off again and try to make it routine - like so many other things going on at our house right now. No pictures for this post, as I'm not at my home computer, but they will come soon.

We've been busy since Heather's last post. One reason we got out of the blogging habit was the project of the winter season - build a new computer so we could archive all of our movie collection. That has been an undertaking. It's all put together and most of our movie collection is in some stage of digital formatting right now. I will report back on how many date movies we have purchased over the last nearly 11 years of marriage when they're all processed.

With all of this computer work going on, it was pretty much chaos in our home office. At one point we had two computers running, but one got disassembled in the process of building the new computer. Heather wanted more access to the computer (I work from home on some days) so project #2 of the winter was to reorganize our office space. We've added some IKEA shelves and desk in our "green" room and are slowly working on reorganizing the other "stuff" that's in there. It's looking good, but still too much stuff in the room for my taste right now...

Now that spring is around the corner we've turned our focus outside. We're tired of the weeds in our neighbors' backyards and uninvited kids liabilities on our swing set so we're putting in a fence. (To be clear, we're fine with neighbor kids, as long as they are invited) As part of that project, we also need to build a retaining wall on our back property line. Scott, Nate, Jared Moore, and I spent part of this past Saturday getting materials ready - namely moving concrete blocks from Nate's house to our place. I'm guessing we moved at least a ton of materials. Once the fence guys come to set the posts, we'll rush to place the retaining wall before they finish the top part. It's an ambitious project that I hope to have done in the next few weeks.

That's about all I have time for now. More to come in the near future.