while the wife's away, the husband will..

Try to find cheap projects to keep himself busy. Karen is in Nagshead NC with her family, so I'm holding down the fort here in the plains. It has been raining a lot, so the outdoor projects haven't been getting the attention that I was hoping to give them. Instead, I put some energy into an inside project.

I've started collecting license plates, especially if I find them in souvenir stores when we are travelling. I had been kicking around ideas on how to hang them up in the garage for a while. In our GA garage, they were strung together vertically with wire, but I didn't really like how that looked. I picked up a couple cheap 2' x 4' pieces of OSB, painted them black and attached the plates. I think it turned out well... The funny thing is that we haven't hung a single picture inside the house! The garage is looking good, though.



Whenever people find out that Karen is out of town for a week or more, the typical response is, what will you eat? I keep saying that I do a lot of the cooking, but no one seems to believe me. I made my first visit to a local butcher shop this week... I think this meal turned out pretty well, it has meat, veggies (with a splash of cheese) and a roll. Mmmm, steak. What more could a guy want?