We Won a few Awards

Its been a long couple of weeks since I last blogged. Somewhere in there I took a long three day trip to Wichita to install some work. While there I worked a 12 hour day on my 28th Birthday, worked with an old college friend, and drove through a wicked thunderstorm pulling a trailor on the way home. The past month I've also been working a lot on building the Awards for KC Home Design's design excellence awards. After building 52 awards I was certainly burned out from peeling vinyl stickers. The exciting news is that we won two awards for our house! We won the Gold Award in the Outdoor Category and a Silver in Historic Preservation ( second to the great work done on the downtown AMC theatre) so while there was pressure to build a cool award it was cranked up a notch knowing I was building two for myself. John and his team at UMKC formulated and poured the concrete for the awards. I can't even begin to explain the special concrete used so check out John's concrete blog.

Channel Your Inner Lumberjack

Been a slow couple of weeks around here. Just working a bunch. I did take a little break to help my neighbor cut down a 75' pine tree last weekend. Our neighborhood really enjoys communal lawn days so we relished the fact that we could be lumberjacks for the day and cut up a huge tree. Here is an action shot just before we yelled timber. I know its probably not an osha approved situation but we had to push the tree a little to insure it didn' t fall on the house.

Pink Flamingo's

Been a very busy few weeks. Working on projects for Studiobuild has left little time for any home projects to get tackled. The garden is growing like crazy we almost have a cucumber ready to pick. On Memorial Day we were attacked by a flock of Pink Flamingo's, seven total managed to stage an assault on our garden. We know which neighbor was the ring leader so when we retaliate pictures will follow.