Sunday, December 13, 2009
Just a Sampling of My Nice Paint Job! (It has caused more than a few gray hairs!)
My New Home (not sure if I LOVE it or HATE it!)
So this is it...what has been taking up a great deal of my time. It is a beautiful home, but it has been an absolute mess. The painter was a horrible excuse for a painter & literally every surface inside & out has had to be repainted. Unfortunately, the inside all has to be sanded & then the molding, trim & inside closets have to be re-sprayed & then the walls re-painted. It is great, since we are living in it now. We have had three separate paint contractors working to fix it. This means they will give me my homework, for example, clear out these rooms & closets, etc. by tomorrow at 6:30 a.m. I then get to load it all back in & start on a new room. It is all loads of FUN!A Break in the "Binge Blogging" for a comment Macall Made Tonight.
Macall came to Dad & said "It has been a really hard day."
Derrick "oh really, why?" (It is a Sunday evening, how hard can it be for a 5 year-old.)
Macall replied in her 5 year-old DIVA style "Just look at the hair Dad!"
The Real CRAZINESS Begins!!! (Our adventures while we were homeless!)
(I can't find my disk of pictures so this is it from the reunion for now.)
Disneyland!
One last chance to take advantage of the Military benefits before civilian life officially begins!
Back Home in Utah!
June 2009
First: The move, goodbye Mountain Home! Yes, we filled this huge truck. Everything into storage in Washington until further notice.
Back From Deployment & Ready to Separate!
Finally leg of journey...finally back in Boise, ID. It was a long five months and we are grateful that there were no major casualties in Southwest Asia or Idaho during the deployment.
Derrick and Brian happy to be back on US soil at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Brian, also a surgeon, was in Balad, Iraq while Derrick was in Kirkuk.)
Can you appreciate how sweaty we are after having waited 45 minutes on the tarmac? By the way it took another 20 minutes to get the A/C on and we didn't dry out until reaching Ramstein AFB, Germany.
Finally walking up the steps to board the plane...can it be true, almost leaving the middle east.
They made us wait outside to board the airplane. Mind you this is Qatar the end of May and yes it was 140 degrees F.
Ready to leave the terminal at Kirkuk Regional Air Base, Iraq. No I don't drink, but seeing the local Mountain Home watering hole made me thirsty.
standing in front of the 506th EMEDS slogan Derrick designed for the squadron coin while deployed (he also painted this cement T-wall barrier). Thank goodness for less troops getting hurt so the hospital crew could work out in their spare time. We finished this sign a few days before leaving Kirkuk.

