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Here are a few pics of some goings on around our house lately.  I don’t post photos often, so when I do, I guess I sort of unload.

DOOR:: When we recently built the addition to our house we did not put a door on the downstairs hallways to the room we built for Lena.  Because we had built the hallway larger as to accommodate a wheelchair and because the door opened into what is our living/dining room area, we knew we did not just want to put a really big, normal door there.  However, we did not know what to do. After coming home with Lena and having to not flip on lights at night- due to the fact that her room still did not have a door, we came up with the following solution.

Basically, it’s a big wooden board from Home Depot that I painted with chalkboard paint; hung up with real-deal barn door hardware.  It really works for the space, and I am quite proud of it.  I am not handy and typically my more eclectic ideas (such as “I know, let’s make a huge chalkboard and hang it like a barn door”) meet a harsh death upon discovering the amount of work, tools and handy-manness required to build the bridge  from idea to reality.  But this one happened, and it did so splendidly.  Therefore, you can expect at least 10 unrealistic ideas in the near future with me pointing to this in order to bolster my case for legitimacy.

FAM:: Our friend and fellow 99 Balloons staffer, Blanca, recently took some family pics.  She deserves a medal for the patience it took to get these…but what a crew.

PARTING SHOT:: There’s no sufficient description of these, but they had to be included.  To the woman who’s leg is below, did I ask you if I could post this on my blog?  Well, I meant to.