Bam, Bam on the Chimney

We decided to spend some of the weekend tearing down more of the chimney. We conquered what might have proven to be the most difficult demolition task as we removed the chimney through the finished part of th e house without destroying any of the walls that cased it in.

Doing so required some interesting techniques, like pictured below where I would climb in the wall to demolish the row of cement that I was standing on.


Once we had gotten that as low as we could (until I couldn't bend my knees out through the studs anymore) we had 5 rows of cement (roughly 225 lbs. or so) of blocks still remaining before we reached the opening in the basement.

With one person swinging, one protecting the furnace, and one grimmacing upstairs as we grunted and yelled, we managed to get the 5 rows down with a controlled fall one row at a time.

We were impressed we didn't break apart anything we weren't supposed to, namely our furnace or our bodies, and once we reached the opening in the basement we decided to quit, knowing that the remaining part of the chimney should be relatively easy to remove.

Jenny's Waining Excitement

She asked an innocuous question: "What are you looking at?"

"You don't want to know."

That's right. Tonight began my fantasy football research for the upcoming drafts. Next week I will draft all of my teams for the year, maybe (probably) even a half team.

Jenny is less excited than I am about that prospect.

Adventures are Fun

We had to leave the house to run an errand tonight. (Picking up digital signal converters for our televisions)

In doing so, Jenny mentioned she was hungry so I decided it was adventure time.

She ended up restructuring the adventure to fit her craving more and we found ourselves eating at Cassetta's in Downtown St. Paul.

I made up a new word while there, "lastacholli" to describe what Jenny was eating it.

She doesn't think it will catch on.

It was a mixture of lasagna and mastacholli.

I'm sticking with it.

Practice Makes Luck

I have practiced golf more this summer than any other time of my life.

The last two rounds i've played, i've chipped in for birdie twice.

Goes to show me that practice does make a person more lucky. I wasn't aiming to make either shot, but knew i could get both of them close.

I got lucky.

Luck I did not have a year ago.

Ahhh Sports

Padraig Harrington repeats as major winner winning the PGA Championship.

We win our last soccer game of the season to claim a spot in the playoffs.

The best swimming relay race and most excited i've been during a televised Olympic Event ever.

Sports are awesome.

With all that, we tallied another soccer injury tonight. With a team filled with men getting much older in age, the injuries have been more impactful this year.

Tonight we had a player leave the game to go to the hospital. He ended with three stitches and a tetnis shot as he had a nice gash put over his eye.

Here's to hoping I can remain injury free through the playoffs.