Evan on December 30th, 2004

Well over 100,000 people are dead and as many as 5 million people are without medical attention, shelter, food, and potable water, in the aftermath of the earthquake and resultant tsunami in South Asia.
If you’d like to help disaster victims, here are three four links for you:

Oxfam
American Friends Service Committee
American Red Cross (International Response [...]

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Rona on December 28th, 2004

Whew! We are back home and have lots of new stuff from Grandma Evelyn and Grandpa Earl and Aunt Bev! Including a brand new Char-Broil Big Easy Gas Grill!!! It has a 30,000 BTU output, a cast iron griddle and 764 sq inches of cooking surface. It even has places to hold the cooking utensils [...]

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Rona on December 23rd, 2004

Yes, our new water heater is super duper! And we found out that we have “low water volume” not “low water pressure” - big difference! We are going to get a bid to find out how much to repipe the main water pipe and repipe under the house with copper pipes. Unfortunately, to repipe the [...]

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Evan on December 22nd, 2004

Our old leaky water heater is gone, our new shiny water heater is installed and running, and our kitchen sink water pressure is great, all thanks to our new friend Devon from Aurora Plumbing. He was fast, friendly, and the youngest and hippest plumber I’ve ever met. The installation knocked loose some junk from our [...]

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Evan on December 21st, 2004

Tomorrow afternoon the nice folks from Aurora Plumbing are coming by with a new 50 gallon tankful electric water heater to install for us. Their price was almost $300 below Home Depot, and they’re right up the street, so that sounded good to us! They’re going to insulate it and stick it on a drip [...]

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Evan on December 20th, 2004

Hee hee!
I believe Rona meant “tankless” water heater.

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Rona on December 20th, 2004

It truly is the season of miracles… Miss Zoey slept for 10 straight hours last night. 10!!! Ten!!! Diez! I have no idea what we did differently or if we even did. It was so cool! I woke up at the usual times she cries awake (2am, 4am, 5am) and listened and then went back [...]

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Evan on December 18th, 2004

We recently had another set of photos done at Kiddie Kandids (as found at Babies ‘r’ Us). I just posted them to Zoey’s photo gallery, so without further ado, here are thumbnail images that link to the images in the gallery.

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Evan on December 17th, 2004

A couple days ago we three trekked down to the Renton/Kent border to visit Ikea. As always we spent more than we intended, but we scored some cool stuff. The coolest of the cool stuff is a new desk, Part One of our mission to move the Zster into her own room.
The plan is [...]

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Rona on December 10th, 2004

Okay, so it will be in two more days, but I figure at the rate we are blogging… yes, we have been busy little bees over here. Let’s see, we have been doing lots of rehearsals, concerts, teaching, programming, researching, demonstrating, running, playing ball, standing up, eating, baking, organizing, and planning. Now, you just have [...]

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