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To: Clappy who wrote (50344)	2/17/2006 1:00:00 PM
From: Cactus Jack	Respond to of 104216

Minus 25 lbs on the scale today. Wow! You da man. jpg

To: Clappy who wrote (50344)	2/17/2006 1:14:09 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 104216

HungryLad~ With fresh bread it would have to be a soup wet enough to dip your bread into and it soaks right into it. Yum. yup. you got that exactly right. i started out thinking about soup and then realized that i should make some good bread to go with it. what's homemade soup without homemade bread, eh? (o: Though I'll be pretty busy as it is. I'm renovating the bathroom. did you not finish that last year, or was that another bathroom reno project? i don't think i ever told you about the bathroom renovation project that i did here.... oh... crumb.... was it about 3 years ago?? i should post something about this on my blog.. probably something with fotos... but in a nutshell, this is what happened. (hope i never told this story before....) a few years ago, i took over my dad's small manufacturing biz when he got cancer. it was really a tiring thing to run and i was having major problems with keeping up my morale at the time. now, whenever i'm going through some kind of trauma in my life, i seem to feel the need to "build something." the summer that he was diagnosed with cancer, i built a large screened in summer porch on the back of our house... all of the sawing and hammering seemed to put my mind at ease each day, at least for awhile... but, wellll... that project got finished up, and then i went through a pretty intense year, losing my dad and also keeping the family biz whirring along. finally, it just felt like something was gonna give any day... so, well, i decided to start working on a bathroom renovation here at the farm. (bozo of an idea). it wasn't gonna be some wussy little project, like putting up a couple of towel bars or a new vanity... nope... this was major cuz the bathroom was the size of a postage stamp and i wanted to make it big enough for a GOOD bathtub. so, one day when mr. croc was at work, i tore out the wall between the spare bedroom and the bathroom, and hammered up a new studwall, went and got sheets of gyprock and got one side of the wall (the bedroom side) looking pretty decent by the time he arrived home. of course, he was slightly mortified by the mess... and yeah.. it WAS bad alright... but he has seen me pull stuff out of a hat before, so he didn't freak out.... well, as i said, this wasn't exactly a "simple" job. i had to move the fixtures all around to get everything to fit nicely into the dimensions of the new room.... and i had to move a baseboard heater... uhm... well.. that's kind of when disaster struck. the manufacturing biz got bizzier... and i was working like the magician's apprentice trying to get product out on time... no matter how hard i worked, i just couldn't seem to get ahead of things... gradually, i was being ground into ashes but i just didn't realize it at the time. well, when things felt like they couldn't get any worse, i decided to take a total break from things and take off on a journey of sorts... one that took me to a bunch of interesting places.... i just worked like a madman to get a bunch of product on the shelf, then packed my bags and took off.... unfortunatley leaving the bathroom (our one and only, mind you), torn all to pieces and looking like something you might find in a bombed out house.... mr. croc didn't say a thing about me leaving everything in such a mess.... just said to have a good time wandering around the country. eventually, i came home and got back into the swing of things, trying to catch up with all the orders that came in while i was off in the wilderness for a few weeks... the bathroom went untouched for...oh... maybe 2 or 3 years, and then, all of a sudden, i got the urge to finish it... and i did.. just about... there are still a few finishing tasks to do, but it turned out nice.... but right after i got it done, i decided to renovate the kitchen. mr. croc did, in fact, scowl and say that he didn't know if that was such a great plan -- me having just gotten the bathroom looking nice. but, i persevered, and tore it all to pieces and put it all back together again with a new double sink and birch countertops and a big new window over the sink.... and new lighting, and all in just over a week... my reputation was restored. mr. croc didn't flinch at all when he came home and found a giant hole in the bedroom wall where i decided to install some new windows. anyhow, that's how things went on the longest bathroom renovation project that there ever was... think it was 3 years in the making.... (o: ~croc