Space Engineering

The scent of warm, buttered, microwave popcorn wafts in from the kitchen as I sit with my feet on the cold, hardwood floor and watch Sunday Night Football.

Mostly I’m attempting to update my webiste and the football game happens to be on as my mom makes a snack in the kitchen which happens to be not far from my nose.

This weekend we decided to tear up the thirty-plus-year-old carpet in our living room.  We managed (just my parents and I) to move a piano, organ, three couches, and numerous other items back and forth across the floor as Dad cut the carpet in pieces.  We rolled each section up and carried it outside through the snow to our van.  The least fun part was the fiberglass pad underneath the ancient carpet.  The most fun part was rearranging the furnature to open up the floor space.  I enjoy rearranging furnature.  Space Engineering. 

On Thanksgiving this year my Dad asked me to take some portraits for the family’s website.  It turned into a regular zoo as the extended family members each were given an opportunity for a family photo.  At the very end I called all 27 people together for a group shot and miraculously managed to fit everyone … and you could still see their faces.  Hmm…. space engineering again?  It was fun.