I just wanted to take this time to give an update on what we have been up to over the last week or so.  We have finally settled into our new apartment and put everything away. I still find myself turning down streets toward the other house and have to catch myself.  It is hard [...]

The last few months I have been posting about selling the house.  Today, July 30, 2010 we closed on the sale of our house.  This photo was taken at 9:00 AM this morning, just two hours before turning the keys over to the new owner.  This was our first real home and a bit sad [...]

I deal with issues that most people deal with and that is having family members making messes and not cleaning up after themselves.  I have been fighting with this for years.  Since we have been trying to sell our house, we have to make sure the house is in showing condition at all times.  This [...]

Yesterday was a big day and a big milestone for my 19 year old son Kevin.  He graduated High School in front of his family and his class.  I know I speak for the whole family in how proud we are of him for reaching this goal in life.  We wish him the best and [...]

Sunday and I took off work the last week so that we could strip, sand, stain, and varnish the hard wood floor.  It has been a tough week but we have accomplished everything that we wanted to do.  In the picture below you can see Sunday running the sander to remove all of the old [...]

For those that follow my posts both on my web site and on the Del City Amateur Radios Club’s web site, I need to let you know that www.delcityarc.org domain is about to expire in July.  This domain is going to be moved to another provider over the coming weeks so it may be unavailable [...]

It is just about that time again to renew the web site.  Of course this brings up all sorts of questions about whether I want to keep the current domain of paulmccord.net or change to something else.  It also makes me wonder whether or not to change my page to a static page or keep [...]

It was interesting that on my last post I was complaining that we have not had any rain.  I was telling the world how dry it was here and that I still have not had to mow my lawn.  It has rained three times since then and is raining at the moment.  I am off [...]

Recently I did a roof repair and have been anxiously awaiting a rainy day to see if it worked.  This has to be the driest Spring ever.  It keeps looking like it is going to rain but never does.  I need to test my roof to make sure it does not leak.  The only problem [...]

It was brought to my attention this evening that my blog was down.  Actually I knew it for a couple days because my browser defaults to this page.  Since we have had other priorities with working on the house, the web site took a back seat.  It was an easy fix and only had a [...]