The Adventures of Don and Corrine

Last night we planned on having a bonfire, but since it rained all day of Friday, we decided that it would be a bit wet so we had an indoor bonfire.  We had about 12 or so people come over for a cookout, where I cooked some burgers and hotdogs on the grill and then just hung out for the rest of the night. We then burned some wood in the fireplace and played some wii and had a good time. People stayed over and hung out till around midnight.

Saturday was a busy day as well.  Corrine and I started the morning, with choir practice and then Corrine and the girls went out for lunch, and since it had rained the day before Rob and I decided that we should have the bonfire anyway and burn the brush that we had acquired for the past few years.  So we burned a lot of the tree that Rob cut down the week before, along with a whole lot of the brush that we have been building up for the past 3 years.  While Rob manned the fire Corrine and went off to learn how to make dumplings at a dumpling making class.  It was a lot of fun, and we got to eat a whole lot of them, they were pretty good.  We then came home from the class and helped Rob and John finish putting brush on the fire and then we ended up having a pile that was about 12 feet in diameter of ash and embers. Then we all came in an played some more Wii.  Great weekend of fun.

Tags: Bonfire, fire, John, Rob, Wii

Incase you haven’t heard, there were winds close to 80mph were recorded in the Cincinnati area on Sunday.  The reminants of Hurricane Ike, combined with a cold front to cause crazy winds to come through the area on Sunday afternoon.  We lost a tree in our front yard, and many shingles off of our roof of the house, but otherwise not that bad.  During some of the storm I was out in the yard putting things away, and saw white caps on our swimming pool.  Thats just nuts.

Our power went out Sunday afternoon, but it came back on around 3am Monday morning, so we were definately one of the lucky ones.  Most of our friends in Oxford didn’t have power, so they came over to our house on Monday, to charge laptops, cell phones, etc.  Whatever they needed to keep going.  Our big freezer in the garage is now full with food from people, who still have no power.  So it was an awesome blessing to be able to serve our friends.

Here are a few pictures, from our house

Here are a few pictures from Rob & Annie’s house of the huge tree that fell in their front yard.

Tags: Annie, Rob, Roof Damage, Shingles, Winds

The weather went from beautiful to down right cold in just a few days so all the plans we had to work and play ourside were foiled, so we played inside.  Saturday night, Corrine decided that the area over the fireplace looked dark.

So we spent Saturday night, part of Sunday afternoon, and then Monday after work installing some track lighting.  It was a lot of fun, the work was a little hard, but fun too..  Anyway, here is what the same mantle area looked after we had got the lights installed. I would agree that it looks a little better then before.  Wouldn’t you agree?

Tags: Indoor, John, Projects, Rob