Just in Case You Wondered...

We are doing quite well.

We are just still very much that cute boring couple who fix trucks for a living. 

 

 Fun Fact: In 2013 we worked on a total of 692 vehicles. By the first week of February this year, we had already worked on 91. How's that for an increase in productivity?

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We are getting linoleum installed in the kitchen this week! 

 

Fun Fact: Spilling food stuffs -like the pan with ham drippings - on the carpeted kitchen floor is really, really gross.

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Spring is a mere 35 days away. Official spring, that is. Is everyone as hopeful as me that we will start feeling spring much sooner?

 

Fun fact: I don't mind snow, but cold is miserable. 

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I have heat in my office now! I spent the first couple months of winter sitting huddled next to a small electric heater; now I can dress with normal amounts of layers. :)

 The gas lines were a bit confusing here and some were open so we didn't want to get the gas turned on right away. Any other form of heat was complicated or expensive. 

One day my Napa Rep decided that he felt bad for me and brought a small heater with a fan. The next day Drew, who has been doing some awesome remodeling jobs for us, realized how cold I was so he brought over a kerosene heater. The following day he located a gas heater on Craigslist and spent an afternoon tracing gas lines and plugging everything unneeded. Then he mounted this awesome heater on the wall. The next day Jeff (more about Jeff another day!) marched into the office and set down a big old space heater and said "There. Now you'll be warm!" 

Fun Fact: I feel loved! 

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Speaking of my office, I decided to cheer it up. When you spend 50 or 60 hours of your week in one place, it sure is lovely to have it lovely. Drew installed all these nice lights for me which shed some light on the fact that the ceiling needed some help. First I scraped it (the drippy parts of the stucco ceiling-or whatever you call that stuff!), then I started painting. 

This place was built 35 years ago and the ceiling had never been painted; only the original mud splatter was installed. So five gallons of paint later, it should be pretty nice! 

Fun fact: My husband always rolls his eyes when I start projects like these. He says I roll my eyes when he starts a truck project (Can you imagine?!), so I guess that makes us even. We both agree that when the other finishes their project, it is pretty nice. 

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And speaking of his projects, I think he is going to have to get another truck going for us sometime soon because a friend is planning to buy our Chevy. 

Fun Fact: We've owned this one truck for 8 or 9 months! 

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More of my favorite guy's projects include getting garage doors installed in the shop. There was one 12' door on the far end, but everything had to come through that one door. It was finally time, so we got three more 12' ones installed.

 

 As you can see there is still a bunch of cleanup left to be done and the weatherstripping still needs to be installed, as I understand. They are wonderful though! 

Fun Fact: I never realized that garage doors came in sections. Duh, I'm pretty sure that I never thought about that one! :)

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We gave away this free TV this week. When the lady took it, she laughed and said that actually she was "just scrapping it".

Fun Fact: These TVs have about five dollars worth of copper and other such stuff. Learn something new every day! 

Do I care that I gave it away? Nope, not at all. :)