Shane Birthday

Shane had I spent part of his birthday weekend at the farm and the other part relaxing here. We went to dinner with his parents and celebrated with the girls when they got back from their weekend.

Even Dan snuck in this picture.

 Sing!

 Make a wish!

Planter Box

I have been missing doing yard work - yes - I know that sounds crazy!!!  Shane made me a big-size planter box so I have a little garden.  I love it so much!

The girls helped me pick out some herbs and flowers and they found a couple of fairies to put in the garden.
Isabella didn't want your ordinary fairy - she found a fairy dog.  She loves hiding it in the plants and now that they've grown so big you can barely find the fairy dog.  

Kennedy picked out a more traditional fairy girl.  Usually she is resting with her elbows on the edge of the planter box although Isabella likes to hide her too - and likes to hide her face down in the dirt. 

Debbie bought them two new little creatures for the planter box.  Kennedy got a lizard (of course).  I'm hoping this is as close to having a lizard in my house as I will ever have (I'm STILL anti-chameleon).

 Isabella got a snail and he's made friends with the fairy dog - they hide out together.   

Unfortunately, the girls found catepillars (Isabella said it was NOT a catepillar, it was an inchworm) in the garden this weekend which solves why many of my leaves have holes in them now.  Definitely not an organic farmer, I sprayed the heck out of them this weekend with pest control.  Hopefully those pesky inchworms go away.

Job-Dog

Shane has been helping with construction work on his cousin Megan's new house.  Dan couldn't be happier he has a construction job because it means he gets to be a job-dog.  He rides out there in the back of Shane's truck most weekday afternoon and weekends.  Since Megan's new house is on a farm he gets to be a "real" dog!  He comes home tuckered out!

 Lady is still a diva and this is mostly her job now:

Nightstand Evolution

Shane is making us nightstands and he finished mine last week.  Here is the evolution of my nightstand:

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Isn't it beautiful?!  He is finishing one for his side this fall.  He is really talented and I can't believe he can make stuff like this just out in the garage.  I love it!

RDMS in da house!

Shane passed his physics and Abdominal boards last weekend and is now RDMS (Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer) !!

He's super official - check out all these letters behind his name: Shane Bruce, BS, RVT, RDCS, RDMS

Oh-la-la!  He passed the physics test in about 30 minutes - good grief man!  That's so quick.  He's a smartie pants!

Island

Shane made Debbie an island for Christmas and he just finished it.  He worked really hard on it.  Shane works 4 jobs (seriously...no really....seriously) and still makes time to finish stuff like this on the side.  He burned the midnight (more like 3 am oil) in the past few weeks to push and finish it up.  It looks really amazing!

 

Vanna showing off her Daddy's work

Happy Birthday Hubby!

My 40 and sporty hubby celebrated his birthday over Memorial Day weekend.  It was a great weekend full of golf, a trip to Cabellas, and yummy Red Velvet Cake.

Bobby Lights Overnight sensation, One hit wonder musical moguls, Musics must haves!

This is a new and what will be a reoccurring section on the Bruce blog.  I  know the title may seem a little on the lengthy side, but something of this minute magnitude deserves a title that is slightly on the blingy side.


The purpose of this segment is to add just a little musical enjoyment to everyone's lives even if it is one little song at a time.  Take the time, cleanse your ear like you might do for your palate as you switch wines tasting at a swanky vino bar as to not disturb the next fermented fruit flavors as they swill around in your mouth just before it begins the long yet short journey down to your belly, giving you that hopefully warm fuzzy feeling even the cheapest of wines can deliver! And if your really lucky, it may be followed by a not so pleasing, this is a really bad wine shiver.

Today's selection is a gentleman by the name of Zach Deputy, Song:  Sunshine. Hailing from the south carolina coast, this big bearded ( i mean this is a manly beard!)  beast sports a 4 octave vocal range!  Impressive i know, like him you will.  His music, soothing voice and his wildly dexterous finger work on his nylon string acoustic guitar will gently surround the auricle of the ear as it teases your musical sense with his island like ninja soul music.   Easy to palette and sounds good goin down.

I ask only this, give it a listen.  Maybe you love it, maybe you don't.  One thing is for sure, the sky is generally blue, grass is generally green and when in rome!  This makes absolutely no sense i realize, but .....

Click the link and enjoy....maybe...hopefully...just a little......
https://www.opendrive.com/files/?10349488_H8VEN

December Boathouse

Shane has been helping his friend, Ryan, build a boathouse on the weekends.  This past week they got it put into the water.  I don't know really anything about construction but I asked Shane to take pictures because it sounded amazing.  Building a house on land, lifting it up to put floaties on it, and then hoping it floats once its in the water...crazy.  Here are some the cool pictures: