Samford's Step Sing

This past weekend while I was out of town my wife was consumed with arguably Samford's biggest event of the year, 'Step Sing.' While most schools have tickets scalped for sporting events, this is the one Samford event where tickets are very hard to come by. Step Sing is basically a show choir production where various groups are competing for bragging rights. Rebecca and Caroline brainstormed the idea of creating and selling posters using their photographs to raise money for their photography department. They took pictures opening night, Rebecca designed the posters, and then sold them Friday and Saturday night. Since posters had never been done before no one knew about them and sales were slow at first. By the second night word had gotten around and they were a huge hit. Some groups sold out and had to take additional orders. I joined Rebecca this past Wednesday on campus to set up a table for order pick ups and last chance purchases of extras. The beautiful weather made for a great midday of hanging out with my wife.

Like Old Times

This past weekend was a trip back to high school days. A while back, my friend Brad suggested we go down to Spanish Fort, AL to visit our friend and former roommate Matt Cook (here is his blog) . We've all been friends since middle school, but since the end of college we don't get to see each other as much. So we made the trip down and had a great weekend of just hanging out. It was nice to sit around and not do much. We cooked steaks on Friday night. Saturday, Cook and I worked on his raised beds in which he plans to plants vegetables. We only had a circular saw to work with so Brad added helpful insight, such as "You need one of those saws that cuts the angles."  Cook had already done the base, we just put on the top cap. I think it turned out very nice. Sunday we went to church and then Brad and I headed back to Birmingham. I'm so blessed to have an abundance of friends from all my stages of life.

Hanging on Cook's Inversion Table

Its suppose to help your back.

Showing us how its done.

The Old Gang.

Snow Day

Snow has been forecast several times this winter, but every time it didn't happen, it was only ice, or we were out of town. I feel like that has happened to us a lot over the past couple of years. The snow always happens in places we just left. Our time finally came last week. We got several inches through the evening hours. Rebecca and I went for a walk and came to this grassy area out by the main road. Since Rebecca lived in eastern Tennessee for a while, she was a much more experienced snowman maker than myself. We quickly assembled frosty and set him up by the street. We were only able to get cell phone pictures, because by the time we got back with the real camera he had fallen over at the mid-section (my contribution). Twas fun while it lasted.

Condo Updates Continued

I have a good bit of down time during the winter, so I've continued to work on some projects over the past couple weeks. Changing outlets and light switches has taken up most of my time. The 1/2 bath is done except for a second coat of paint and decorations, which don't fall into my category. Hopefully we can continue painting the upstairs this week.