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Its been a heck of a week, but God has taken care of us, albeit not always the way we might have envisioned for ourselves. First our upstairs air conditioner broke  , and then Jenny's car died; right in the prime of its life! Jenny and I had been headed out on a date; and I was picking up the baby sitter. Fortunately I was near their house so was able to get a ride back home from a good friend Troy Henry. Granted I did have to wait a while in the warm summer sun for the tow truck. At that point I just thought it was some kind of minor belt failure... Later we would find out that the belt failure cascaded and eventually spun broken parts into the timing belt which caused the engine valves to be destroyed. XG300 you were a nice car while it lasted.
 
  
God provided some AC relief via a free window unit that Don found for us, he even drove it up and helped me "rig" it in the window. It will work for now, but for sure isn't a permanent installation LOL  God has clearly been taking care of us; its not enough to cool the whole upstairs, but it is keeping the bonus room useable, and we have moved Jordan into the bonus room at nights and for naps. As for us, we are sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of the family room! God has provided several outstanding people who are helping us out with the AC, and hopefully it will be fixed by Monday this coming week! God really is good.
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To finish off this week, Friday I took a half day from work. I was going to test drive a ford freestyle that a local dealership had. It was 1000$ out of the top of our budget; I was mostly going to test drive it since carmax had a similar one down in charlotte that they would transfer. I drove, it was really nice, and I told them that if they dropped a thousand off of it, I'd drive it home show Jenny, and buy it if she liked it... the price was already very competitive for all the features, leather, gps nav, DVD, 6 disc CD, rear backup sensors... I figured there was no way they'd knock off a thousand. They came back with a 500 dollar offer... made it intruiging but not enough to delay my departure to go test drive a honda pilot... I told them that and they came down 800; that was enough! Took it home. Jenny loved it, so we are now the proud owner of a fully loaded 2006 Ford Freestyle with only 33k miles on it.
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So what have we been up to? You might Ask? Well we have been busy in the Yard for sure! Check out our new Garden:
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The [[Family|Patterson's]] (all 5 of us Josh Jenny, Jordan, Strider and Sam) have gone Wiki! Whats wiki you may ask? Good question... If I figure it out I'll be sure to let you know! Amongst other things I hope it means we will be more regular in updating the site! Well we can always hope.
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Latest revision as of 18:57, 2 July 2016

Welcome to PattersonWeb.org. Keep up with whats going on with the Patterson's.

Keep up with us via our Blog RSS Feed

Even More Behind!

So its now mid 2016, Perhaps I should just agree with my latest OS upgrade that took my web site offline, its back up, but looks nothing like the original, and I suspect that it is forever gone... oh well. Permanent Link


So Behind!

It is unbelievable, but our web site is 2 years out of date!!! oh well thanks facebook and google plus. Not sure what the final determination will be, but for now I'm just putting up a quick welcome to 2014 message, next year I'll probably put up a welcome to 2015 message, and finally take it all down!!

Got a new server, so testing it out ment adding a Post LOL! Welcome to the new era, have a 4 core xeon Server that uses less power than a incadecent light bulb! what is the world coming to!!! Awesomeness! Permanent Link

Crazy Week Done!?

So the last week has been INSANE! Literaly... So in no particular order, we started with a natural disaster bifecta for our daughter, an earthquake on her birthday, and a hurricaine on her birthday party! Yes, so a birthday and party was in the works for this week. See birthday Pictures Here
It was also her first day of homeschool, so everything that entailed getting setup! Curriculum, Furniture, lesson plans etc!. We also had her first day of Home school co-op!

We also had a consignment sale, which thank God, despite the hurricane actually sold about 90% of our stuff! God is great! Guess we should call it a hurricane sale! so that involved Tagging, and dropping stuff off during the week.

And too top it all off, we added a new family member, Arwen, our new 4 Month old chocolate lab puppy! Sam is adjusting ok so far, right now they are 'aware' of each other, but not being lovely or anything, we'll see if thats how it stays, or if they get more friendly! Anyway we THINK she is going to be sam sized; so another medum size dog; She has the cutest webbed feet; Labs are pretty cool dogs, its no suprise that they are such long running favorites; and they do so well with children too!

Right now she is curled up next to my feet. We are wondering how long the honeymoon period is going to last; so far she is a gentle, not to frisky puppy; who seems perfectly tempered for our household!


--Josh 13:49, 28 August 2011 (EDT) Permanent Link

School Table For Homeschooling

So we got the table finished! just in time. The funny thing about the pedestal and legs is that I ended up making it to narrow so I couldn't get my hands in to screw on the retaining nuts onto the bolts coming off the legs, so Jordan ended up having to assemble the legs for me...! I couldn't believe she was able to stick her arm up the shoulder into the pedestal, put washer on, and screw on all 8 bolts! She is becoming such a great helper! I am very proud of her.

So The school year starts next Monday! Jordan is entering Kindergarten as a home-school student! We are so excited. As part of the parlor makeover as our one room school house, We needed a new table for all the work they will be doing. To that end I am building one. Tonight I finished turning the pedestal on the mini lathe w/ extension!



More Pictures are available here

--Josh 22:44, 17 August 2011 (EDT) Permanent Link

2011 Winter Project Complete Built-in Bookshelves

So despite epic cold, long lasting sickness and other brutal realitites of life, we have persevered, and completed our winter project for the year, a beautiful set of Built-in Bookshelves around our fire place in the family room.

While In a technical sense, the crib was probably a bit harder and fancier, this took more time, and had a bit more complexity. Definitely had a lot more wood, and in some ways tighter tolerances.

Without Further ado, here are a couple pictures:

This one is for dad, you can see the Michael Wheland Pern artwork on the TV if you look close!

Last but not least a couple in progress shots:


--Josh 00:40, 22 February 2011 (EST) Permanent Link

2010 Spring Recap

So the Fairy hut is done, I ended up with 2 dragon lady cross vines, and a Major Wheeler Honeysuckly. WE put some concrete stepping stones down underneath, and the wood is sprouting willow leaves, I wonder if the main supports will take root!?

We had a great camping trip... If by great you mean having some tents blown apart, and Jordan not sleeping at all the entire night. In fact, not only did she not sleep, but she talked the whole night too.... Jordan doing hand shadows in front of her night light: "Look dad, its my hand!!! ..... Look dad, its my foot!!!!" Repeat about 200 times and you understand my night. By the end of it I was thinking, look Jordan, its my hands around your neck... Fortunately we all made it out alive, and we now have a family camping trip under our belt. Still letting the experience settle; will see if we choose to do it again! Will post some pictures at some point in the near future.


--Josh 22:33, 5 June 2010 (UTC) Permanent Link

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