the adventure continues

here's the new spray-in bedliner we got for my truck.

'why'd you go and do that?' you ask...

aside from the facts that it is way better protection from rust and the like than the

plastic one and that i don't have to take it out to put the canoe rack back on ...

it's just plain sexy!

maribeth and the new chainsaw. there was this annoying maple stump that doesn't seem to quit trying to come back. in one last attempt to get rid of it, i took the new chainsaw to it. i didn't include the picture that shows the stump because it also illustrates my choice of apparel that is a bit more lax than the recommended steel-toed boots and chaps...

as i was digging through the roots of the stump, cursing and muttering under my breath, mixing and pouring cement for the uprights... remi was busy playing on the stump that i cut off, trying to figure out where we should display it and suggesting that this be our christmas tree this year...
no, not really. i made some of that up. she was actually finishing laying tile in the closet and cutting all of the angled tiles to finish off the edges- a job bigger than either of us realized at the start.
there to the right of my left knee is the remainder of the stump. the joists go up for the roof

a shot from inside

and the roof goes up then, on friday afternoon, we spent hours cleaning up the grout on the first half of the floor, moving the furniture to that side, and then grouting the other half after which, we were both wasted.

to celebrate, we went to see the taping of 'wait, wait don't tell me' at wait chapel, on the campus of wait, i mean wake forest university

here's a horrible shot of peter sagal and carl castle (left).

and the pannelists- (left to right) roy blount, jr., kerie o'connor, and moe rocca and chris paul, the celebrity guest, nba rookie of the year in 2006, and wake graduate