David Journal

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  • Piano girl

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    Tonight Savannah started looking at pianos on KSL classifieds while Laura and I were running errands. She made arrangements to go see pianos ranging in price from $800 to $50. I had warned her that any piano priced at $100 or less was very likely to be a reclamation project. The first 2 pianos sounded…

  • Biking family

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    Yesterday after dinner Noah wanted to try riding his bike without training wheels. First try he took right off and ride down the street. I spent the rest of the evening running after him to help him get started after he stopped. He loved it but we decided to put the training wheels back on…

  • Three modes

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    I get treated like an imbecile when Laura is trying to be polite. I get treated like a Neanderthal when she’s upset. Most of the time I’m just treated like a resource/servant. Also, I find it not a little ironic that I get to listen to her deal with Alyssa right now in exactly the…

  • Writing Memoirs

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    In Sunday School yesterday the teacher (I don’t know her name yet) talked about the importance of writing our personal histories for our posterity. I remembered my effort to digitize Dad’s personal history and also of my efforts to digitize all my journals. As I thought about it I realized that those projects are related…

  • Crazy day

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    First thing in the morning I went to check on Coconut and found that she had escaped. Since it was her first night she has no connection to our house so there was no way to expect that she was bound to return. When I got home from work she was still gone with no…

  • Coconut is back

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    We finally got Coconut home. I got a fence set up in the East side yard. It’s nice, sturdy, decorative, and relatively subtle. She’s got a decent little area to live in and we can open the back gate to let her into the back yard when we choose. I might even make it so…

  • Closed, but work to do yet

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    I got to sign the closing papers this afternoon. Since nothing can be Smith, I had the wrong address for the title company so the signing began 20 minutes late – after I could arrive at the correct location. It was, thankfully pretty smooth at that point. When I finished I found that I had…

  • Christ and injustice

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    Landon Fraser (a new Deacon): “If we are not pressing forward we are not progressing.” I just realized that Jesus volunteered to take the brunt end of every injustice for all mankind.

  • Locked in

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    We finally cleared the last hurdles as it loan was officially approved. I have locked in this purchase by wiring my full down payment on the house now we just need signatures to complete the sale on Monday and transfer money to all the appropriate banks from the escrow accounts.

  • Emma is home

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    Today Andy requested that Laura and I meet with him and Lily at their house without our kids to talk parenting stuff – clearly important but quite vague. When we got there we talked about how Ezra is progressing but then they switched gears to the actual purpose of the meeting. They discovered last night…