Rad Dad

We'd like to be hip, but we just aren't. I think we might be too old and too cheap. We don't yet own an Ipod, perhaps we will someday. Maybe when my kindgarten niece decides to upgrade hers we can score her hand-me-down Miley Cyrus music. Augh!

Kyle's been studying up to take an Insurance test, and he knew that he had the course on cassette from years and years ago. So we've been digging in our boxes trying to find them (when you move as often as we do, there are some things we don't bother to unpack). Eureka! We found them in a box with textbooks in the basement. The only problem was they were on cassette. Do YOU still have a working cassette player? I was able to scrounge up an old walkman from the hall closet (when you move as often as we do, there are some things you shouldn't still have). It's been working great. So when Kyle was leaving for the gym, I noticed his walkman in hand. I told him, "Augh! You can't take that out in public!!!" So poor Kyle concealed his old school walkman in his pocket and we're hoping everyone just assumes it's his Ipod- a very large, battery eating Ipod. Oh no, what happens when he has to flip his tape over!

P.S. Kyle took his test yesterday and passed! Score one for the not hip, old and cheap team!

Workin' Man

Although Kyle's work is painfully slow right now, he of course hasn't slowed down at all. He always has a project to keep him busy. Here are pictures of some of his latest. Okay, no pictures of the basement which is now framed, or the 100+ gallon fish tank built into his office wall, or the 3 stone fireplaces he's built at his stepdad's new house, or the 4 new irrigated and weed-guarded garden boxes. But here is the labor intensive, budget friendly backyard landscaping project and a picture of his 5 unit rental house which he has just found new renters for.