Our thoughts and prayers are with our fellow Hurricane Katrina survivors today on this anniversary. For all those whom we have lost along the way - requiescant in pace. Read Full Story
The famous headline-accompanying Katrina photo: Taken here in Pascagoula, MSThe City Submerged - Josh Neufeld Tells Katrina Stories in a Graphic Novel - NYTimes.com: "Thousands upon thousands were affected by Hurricane Katrina, which struck Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005. The magnitude of the catastrophe is depicted on a personal level in the new graphic novel “A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge,” written and illustrated by Josh Neufeld and published by Pantheon."As another anniversary approaches... Read Full Story
I forgot to include a picture of the pegboard side of the garage with my previous update - so before I begin with our updated to-do list - here's a taste:BeforeAfterNow on to the tentative to-do list for 2009 -- sure, we're getting a late start but... well - we just don't care anymore! *cackle*Lingering Hurricane Katrina repairs in blue. Replace main circuit breakers on outside of house (DONE.)Brace kitchen sink in some manner other than that which was used by the 'professionals' to brace it... Read Full Story
Click here for beforeBut we did finish the garage.If you can really call it finished ever. There are plenty of somedays out there -- just as there are around the house. Someday we would like to do something snazzy with the garage floor. Someday we'd like to devise a better storage system for the seven (!) bikes out there. But for now we are done with an honestly massive overhaul of our car-storage area.... The proof that we've accomplished something amazing: We can now regularly store a... Read Full Story
Not a very clever title, I know - but it's late and we just spent a couple hours putting boxed cabinets together.It's been years since I've been prompt about posting follow-up pictures, but Dave insisted. Besides, it gives me yet another opportunity to post a gratuitous photo of my car.Putting the hutch component together was a snap. Mounting it to the base cabinets as instructed was impossible. Somehow we were to line up the 3/4 inch wide boards (and the pre-drilled holes at t... Read Full Story
Throughout the blog silence we have been quietly working on the garden & the garage... Trying to plan our work around the weather. If you live in southern Mississippi you understand what a ridiculous endeavor that is.... Therefore - we have a little done on the garage and a little done on the garden -- and a lot more to do.At least we're happy with the gray we picked for the garage walls -- at least it looks alright on the one wall we've painted so far.How did we ever get so mu... Read Full Story
We have managed to make our garage look even worse than it did when we started. I admit - I didn't think it could be done.We've picked a nice gray for the walls to go with the cabinets that we will eventually purchase and install... and once we get past the minor sheetrock problems we'll be ready to paint the whole place. Ah. Progress. Read Full Story
Hargrove identifies final Katrina victim: "Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove today identified the last unknown victim of Hurricane Katrina in Harrison County.The victim is 20-year-old Frank Jones of Gulfport. He found in the canal near Garden Park Hospital in Orange Grove. Drowning is the official cause of death." Read Full Story
There's been a lot of hype around the internet about a certain public official making a widely-televised speech which included an anecdotal Hurricane Katrina story. Said official referred to an incident which took place a few days after Katrina made landfall as having occurred "during Katrina". This, they say, is tantamount to telling a lie: He couldn't mean 'during Katrina' when he was talking about days after the storm, could he?Now I can't speak for this ma... Read Full Story
After a couple of weeks of recovery - and a totally unrelated trip to the emergency room for me this past weekend... We are ready to officially begin making our garage less of an unholy mess.In order to motivate (read: publicly humiliate) us to really roll up our sleeves on this one and get going... I present the following 'before' pictures:The pictures only get worse from here. The patchwork look on the pictured wall represents where a pegboard once hung... where wire shelves were o... Read Full Story
