Before & Laters

The hubs and I have been living in The Parsonage for almost a year now. We've done some work, but not as much as I expected. A lot of it still looks like someone else could live there. We're on a bit of a mission to change that and we're getting there...slowly, but surely.

In the interest of providing some motivation to work on it and to improve the overall quality of my blog I've decided to begin to document the current state of things in The Parsonage (yes, I absolutely must capitalize both every single time I reference it). Since we don't exactly have "Afters" I've decided to reference them as Before & Laters. In addition to the rooms just not being done I think "After" has a sense of finality to it that I just can't see making sense for us.

These will go on for a while and hopefully become more impressive as we make progress on the house. I figure we should start as the beginning so the first room up is the dining room. We took it on shortly after we bought the house in a mad rampage to get it done before we hosted Thanksgiving. In three weeks it went from this

 

to this.

Maybe not exactly this. I'm pretty sure we waited to put up the Christmas tree until after Thanksgiving dinner.

At the moment it is mostly serving as a craft/storage table in the center of our house, but I didn't promise Before & Nows. I just said Later and this picture was taken later than the preceding one. Hopefully I'll have an even later Later to add soon with awesome photography and everything.

Next Up: The guest bedroom

I'm a fish. And I'm going to judge myself on swimming.

I got an email today with this quote at the bottom.

Everyone is a genius.  But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb
a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
 
Albert Einstein 

It resonnated with me. I'm working a lot on personal growth lately and part of that is recognizing what I was born to do and going with it even if that isn't what other people think I should be doing. 

I'm a fish and I'm going swimming. 

Speed & Light

Warning: I'm about to geek out hardcore so if you're not into the academic part this will be of no interest to you whatsoever.

Two pretty cool things happened yesterday.

First, It was the fall equinox,which if you've never thought about it comes from Latin for equal night since there are about exactly 12 hours of each everywhere on the globe. It happens because the tilt of the earth's axis is perpendicular to the direction of the light coming from the sun.

You might need a diagram.

You can thank NOAA for this one. See how the tilt isn't toward or away from the sun, but perpendicular to the direction of the rays? Cool, huh? But I digress.

I cheated. Instead of 12 hours of day I got like 12:20. How you ask? I woke up in my home in Wamego, KS and by sunset I was in Scott City where the sun goes down about 20 minutes later. I think that's cool.

Odds are you don't. This is why I had the warning.

AND the people at CERN think they found a beam of muon-neutrinos speed of light by 60 nanoseconds. I'm sure you heard about this yesterday unless you spent it under a rock, but I still wanted to comment on the cool factor. Anything traveling faster than the speed of light is super cool by any kind of scientific standard, at least if other people can replicate it.

Good day.

Crazy.