The Hazard Chronicles

About nineteen-ish years ago I met this girl in a college dance class and we partnered up to practice for an upcoming exam. As we danced in empty rooms (sometimes racquetball courts), trying to perfect our moves, we started talking, and eventually doing other things together. I started liking this girl quite a bit. She was a doer. There are a lot of talkers out there, but it's always been frustrating trying to move people from the "hey, it would be cool if..." to the "we are doing it!" stage. Not with Rachel though. We did lots of things, became best friends, and then decided that we wanted to just keep doing stuff together forever.

And here we are, on our eighteenth wedding anniversary, still doing things. And I still like her quite a bit. It's been even awesomer than I expected, and there is no sign of slowing down anytime soon. Happy anniversary, my love.

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We have kind of a conglomeration of things this week. We have still been working a lot on springtime projects. Nothing huge. Fresh coats of paint here and there, some tidying up of things that we let go over the winter. In Wallace we installed a simple ceiling and added lighting to the dungeon basement to make things a little more inviting. There are a lot of works-in-progress right now that will hopefully be finished soon.

Painting in the bedroom

Up until recently, this was the first impression of our house if you entered through the garage. It's a little scary. Not anymore though! We'll show some before/after photos after it's complete.

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On Sunday we took a day trip to Moscow where it wasn't raining, walked around town, explored the beautiful gardens, toured the campus, and spent a few hours at the college climbing gym. It was a great day!

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A few other things:

The school put on an event for students in the challenge program (GATE). Here's Lindsey and me playing laser chess.

Rachel has put in a ton of work organizing this year's "Care Affair" for CDAide. This is the only photo I could find of the actual event though with her in it. 

Well, that's about it. Have a good week!