The Big Remodel

Another thing I did with my time off of work was I finally did some remodeling (by "I", I mean, I moved everything and then paid Lee's Flooring to put in new floors for me, then I put stuff back and did a few other things here and there.) Here are the before and afters:

 The office floor before. Noticed the stains and general yuckiness.

 The office floor after. Much brighter in here now.

 Another view of the office floor.

This floor is NummyMuffinCoocolButter approved.

The guest bath before. Notice the damage where Maggie tore up the paper-thin cheap linoleum.

 The guest bath after.

The bedroom floor before. I had torn up the carpet before this picture was taken because it was just too disgusting to live with anymore.

The bedroom after. It's amazing how much brighter it is with the bed moved and brighter floor.

Another view of the bedroom.

The closet, all cleaned out and new floor.

The master bath. Same ugly cheap linoleum as the rest of the house.

The master bath after.

Thanks to Lee's Flooring, my house actually looks like responsible adults live here! Ok, well, the rooms that they did look like that, the other rooms still look like a frat house. But those rooms will get done some day too!

Play Date with David

It's my last week before I go back to work, so David and I decided to have a play date. We went to McKee Gardens in Vero to see their Lego in Nature exhibit. It was quite spectacular. Here are some pix:

 David checking out the Lego hummingbird.

 The detail on all of the sculptures was amazing.

This was one of my favorites. The fact that the Lego Goldfinches were eating from a feeder full of Lego cracked me up.

David being amused by the Goldfinches.

They had a "build your own" place. I made a Roseate Spoonbill.

David made a one legged man wearing a hat.

A lego lily pad with frog.

A lego koi jumping out of the pond.

 A Lego bee

A Lego sprouting acorn.

A Lego rose

A Lego butterfly

A real, non-Lego flower that I thought was really pretty.

Me and David. Notice his binoculars!

I think this was my absolute favorite. Check out the bird on the mama bison's back!

A Lego Blue Darner.

A fox...

A bunny...

David called this one "Lego Predation"

A non-Lego bench that I thought was really pretty.

A Lego lawnmower. We walked by this at first, not realizing it wasn't real.

And, of course it wouldn't be a day out without real birds too. This is a real, non-Lego Roseate Spoonbill we saw at Goodwin after we left McKee.

ELC Boat Trip

I was invited to take some pictures on the ELC "Floating Classroom" today. It was a blast! Here are some pictures.  Click to enlarge.

Our fearless leader, Heather, fearlessly leading us down to the boat.

"You're taking a picture? Wait let me smooth out my feath..."
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"Drats!"

An Osprey, looking all poser-y.

Two brown pelicans chatting.

"Who you calling looney??"

"Well, helloooo there!"

American Oyster Catcher calisthenics.

"Lift one leg..."

"Now lift your wings..."

"Now lift both feet..."

Double-crested Cormorants, milling about and chatting.

I like now Cormorants always look like they are paying attention to some unseen teacher.

An Osprey, who thinks he is discretely eating a snack, but isn't actually being that discrete at all.

"Om nom nom nom nom."

Close up of the Oyster Catcher. Look at that crazy orange eye!

Heather explaining dem crazy bones.

Going under the bridge back to the ELC.

Returning safely to the ELC doc after another amazing trip!