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As 2010 comes to a close…

The year 2010 is now into its last hours with us. It has been a year of many things for my family and I, thought I still cannot believe it's already ending. I am not the type that makes resolutions, as I practice the art of procrastination, so I'd rather set simple goals throughout the year, rather than big ones that I know I will never reach. I can't think of too many negative things that happened in 2010 but I can certainly recall many of the positive things -- loosing 25 lbs, bettering my ...

The holiday season has arrived in our household…

Right now, while I am sitting on the couch by the fireplace writing this blog post, our house is full of women and kids for my wife's annual cookie exchange. Even though our tree went up a few weeks ago, along with the Christmas lights on the house when the weather was decent (though a bit of snow still on the roof almost caused me to make an express trip to the ground), it just didn't feel like Christmas. Sure we've had our first snowfall, the music has been playing, and we been working on c...

Project Tent Trailer continues…

Yes, I have had a major lack of posts about the tent trailer project over the last year, but rest assure, the project is still around. I have made small steps in moving forward with the roof rebuild over the past few months and now have a structure to mount back on the trailer. Unfortunately, when I was working on getting the canvas frame ready to re-attach to the new roof structure, I discovered a broken lift cable. Here's a diagram of the lift cable system found on older Lionel/Bonair tent tra...