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winter 2010 supplemental

Well, Indiana weather is at it again....yesterday it was 50 degrees and raining and today it is icy and snowing. My daffodils have been so confused. They're about an inch sprouted and most likely on hiatus until the next Spring-like weekend. Recently Theo and I have had to opportunity to visit grandparents, great grandparents, cousins, uncles, & aunts. It is nice that everyone on that list is less than an hour away. Coby and Theo enjoyed making PB cookies last Friday. I used some Christmas money from the Brosts to purchase a rocking chair for Theo. This was an instant hit and a seemingly limitless source of indoor exercise. In other news, I am getting the impression that our 20 year old house is currently in active deterioration. Last year our furnace went out. Last week the furnace maintenance guy found hairline cracks in our air conditioning pipes. Our kitchen faucet is leaking into the cabinet below, and we can't quite find the source of a slow water leak in our new washer.(the old one had it too!). There is an ever-growing 'to do' list. Derek has repeatedly pronounced that, "something is always leaking!" He is a great tinkerer and fixer of things, but I think he's getting to the point at which his free time is too much taken with house projects. Maybe he will consider hiring someone to do some of it??? Time will tell....of course it is hard for him to do this now because he'll look at the cost of a professional and then realize that he can watch a few simulations on the web and get the job done for a fraction of the price. Anyway, it's not necessarily the money at all, it's the principle of paying a lot for a most likely bungled job, as we have experienced in the past. We often have to fix it ourselves after "professional installations" and the rest. Hassle! It's only a matter of time before the next thing breaks....

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