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Homemade Alabama Cornhole Boards

For Christmas this year (2007) I made a set of cornhole boards for my sister-in-law Laura and her husband Bobby (a huge ‘Bama fan). The plans I used were Jackson Van Buren’s Open Sided Cornhole Instructions - Advanced (pdf), which utilize a thicker playing surface to avoid the dreaded bounce effect. I decorated [...]

A Tale of Two Trapped Cats

I know that I have many posts to write detailing our holiday extravaganzas, but I must share with you the events of Saturday evening. It all started a couple weeks ago when our neighbors who live two doors down asked us if we could take them to the airport the day after Christmas. [...]

Lookout Mountain Pottery’s 5th Annual Pottery Sale this Saturday

Mark Issenberg of Lookout Mountain Pottery is having a holiday open house and sale this weekend, December 8th and 9th, from ten until five. At noon on Saturday Mark will open his kiln, which is a lot of fun to watch (even if you are not a pottery lover). I hope that some [...]

Anchoring Outdoor Christmas Trees

On Sunday evening we got home from evening church, put the kids to bed and settled down to watch a little television while we folded laundry (okay … so Pam folded laundry). Anyway, while we were watching Desperate Housewives a rain storm with very strong winds rolled in. It was kind of freaky, [...]

Thanksgiving 2007 Recap

We are back from our trip to Biloxi for Thanksgiving but this is the first chance I have had to sit down since returning home Sunday night. Our trip was great. We left Tuesday after work and arrived in Biloxi around midnight. This makes for a long day but I am convinced [...]