der5er on October 7th, 2007

NFPA :: Learning :: Public education :: Fire Prevention Week
This week is the National Fire Prevention Association’s Fire Prevention Week.� The theme for 2007 is “Practice Your Escape Plan.”� Since we recently practiced our escape plan, I don’t plan to now.� However, I encourage everyone to take a look at your plan, and if you [...]

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der5er on August 16th, 2007

Seriously, we didn’t need this. Last night, after everyone was in bed at about midnight, our smoke detector went off. It only made noise for about 10 seconds, but we were all up and out of bed heading out of the house before it stopped.
We checked the whole house and couldn’t find anything that should [...]

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der5er on April 18th, 2007

Things are really starting to look good over at the new house. The framing is complete, we’ve got shingles on the roof, and there are windows and doors in all the appropriate openings!
Cooper and I are still running, though we took a week off during Grandma Dixie’s visit for Spring break. We went by last [...]

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der5er on April 5th, 2007

Wow, the framing is nearly done and the house actually looks like a house!!!? Christi hasn’t been able to update the Flickr set (at far right) because she has exceeded her quota with Flickr.?As you can see in this picture, we have a second floor and a roof!? Our screen porch is framed in on [...]

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der5er on March 23rd, 2007

Wednesday I had Leanna and Cooper for running parters. Leanna rode her Razor and seemed to enjoy it, and I know I did. We were only out for about 15 minutes, because Leanna saw the shortcut home and was tired (Sarah probably would have quit after 15 minutes if I let her). Thursday, it was [...]

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