New Family Tradition!!!

New Family Tradition!!!

Dec 24

Christmas Fireworks!!!!

 

I mentioned we had fireworks left over from the 4th of July and the question wasn’t “Why?”, the question was “How many?”.

 

A tradition is born!

 

Not real sure the neighbors are happy with our new tradition, but we sure are!

 

Christmas Lights!!!!

Christmas Lights!!!!

Dec 06

 

 

Here’s a quick video I put together of the Christmas lights:

 

 

 

 

Christmas!

Christmas!

Dec 05

 

It’s been a really busy year. So we’re a little behind on getting the house decorated for Christmas.

 

I custom build a lot of our outdoor display pieces. Unfortunately a power surge ruined all the lights on a piece I built a few years ago for the garage.

 

 So last week I spent some time removing the lights, repainting the wire frame, and wrapping new lights to the frames.

 

Here’s a quick picture of one of the deer frames being wrapped with the new lights:

 

 

Here’s a picture of both deer all done:

 

 

Both deer flank a wreath that also was damaged by the surge.

 

 The wreath also had to have all the lights removed and new ones added.

 

 

 

 

Will post a video of everything up and working soon.

 

—– Brandon

 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov 24

 

 

Just want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.

 

I wish everyone safe travel and hope everyone gets a chance to rest, relax, and enjoy being with family and friends today.

 

—–Brandon

Another Anri Dog

Another Anri Dog

Nov 19

 

Got another Anri Dog in for repairs.

 

This one had a broken handle almost identical to the break on the one I fixed a few moths ago for the Leavenworth Nutcracker museum.

 

You can see the one I fixed a few moths ago for the Leavenworth Nutcracker museum HERE. Very odd the breaks were so similar.

 

Here’s a quick picture of the current piece that came in and and the broken handle:

 

 

 

Here are a couple pictures of the piece all fixed:

 

 

 

 

I was very pleased with how well this piece came out.

 

—–Brandon

 

 

 

Ugh, some days…

Ugh, some days…

Nov 05

 

Yep, some days just don’t turn out as expected.

 

Still had a couple days off to burn from my day job. Had plans of getting my oil changed Friday, get the deck railing stained, and the outdoor electrical stuff fixed; but the day had other plans for me.

 

Started off with a dull headache, then our cat Leo made a jig saw puzzle out of one of our Halloween busts we got a few years ago from Home Goods.

 

Here’s Leo looking innocent.

 

 

While being petted, he accidentally knocked the pirate bust off the end table.

 

The wrought iron railing took the head off and the 4 foot fall to the tiled landing did the rest. It was totally an accident so I can’t blame him or be mad.

 

 

I set it all aside and went to Home Depot for electrical parts n pieces. While at Home Depot the headache started getting worse and showing signs of a migraine. Still stuck to the plan and stopped to got my oil changed, but started feeling worse.

 

When I got home,  I stained the new deck parts real quick.

 

 

Then I fixed the broken Halloween bust.

 

Luckily all the pieces were accounted for and the breaks were somewhat clean. With some patience and a lot of 2 part epoxy, I was able to fix the Halloween pirate bust.

 

 

After that, I was done. The headache progressed to a full blown migraine and I was down for the count.

 

Not at all what I had planned for Friday, but that’s how it goes sometimes.

 

It’s now Saturday and I’m trying to take it easy and fully recover from the migraine.

 

It’ll be a few days before I get back to “normal”. Again, that’s just how it goes sometimes.

 

—– Brandon