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Everybody love a before-and-after montage!

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Husband Guest Blogging! 1000 repairs 250 trips to Lowes 25 tubes of caulk 15 gallons of paint 7 gallons of primer 6 new gutters 3 restored circa 1938 garage windows 1 new front door (thanks for helping dad!) 1 new garage door 1 busted thumb 0 falls from ladders/scaffolding

They are PAID vacation days

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Don’t you hate it when you look forward to a vacation for a very long time, especially because it’s a longer vacation than you normally take, only to suddenly realize it’s over and then you feel sad and empty because you no longer have it to look forward to? Humph. P.S. This post is strictly gratuitous vacation reporting so if you could care less about it, go. I understand. Our trip had 4 parts to it and I learned that traveling to a variety of climates in the fall can make packing pretty challenging. Part I: Dunmore, PA This leg of the trip was spent relaxing and reconnecting with relatives, both dead and alive. I suppose I should clarify that for those who have never traveled east with us: my mom has a long history in Dunmore and we always take one day to see all the graves and revisit those who came before us. She recently started diving even deeper via ancestry.com so this time we solicited the help of the cemetery “guy” (I don’t know what you would ...