Yesterday between my business phone calls I continued to paint in the house (my partner - and friend of 35 years - and I are selling a piece of tax saving software... your Mommy will find that ironic). Your Daddy might want to use this software. It is designed for self-employed entrepreneurs and I hear that he is starting his own business. Roger Gertz, my partner, developed "April 15th" 23 years ago and it has saved him a ton in taxes... legally...
click here to download the software.
Click here to learn about the software and for the three instructional videos on how to use it (about 4 minutes each)... it'll only take your Daddy 15 minutes and he'll be an expert... and it will save him thousands in taxes each year.
The wall behind the headboard in the bedroom is painted with Behr brand "Orange Spice." Click on this color swatch and you'll be able to see a truer image of the color:
I think Orange Spice is a really rich color and with the other three walls being painted "Vanilla Delight" there is a nice warm, cozy feel to the room. All the trim (baseboards and trim around the doors) will be bright white enamel). Vanilla Delight:
I can't remember the exact details but this headboard was bought by your great-great-great-great grand parents after the War of Northern Aggression... some who aren't historians erroneously still call it a "civil war" which it wasn't (these Kentucky relatives are on my Mama's side). They started building their new homestead (to replace their log cabin) on the family farm in the 1850s but it was not finished until after the "recent unpleasantness," another Southern name for the war (the land was acquired in a 10,000 acre land grant in 1790... it's now Warren County, Bowling Green, Kentucky...
Daniel Boone used to come by and visit).
The headboard and the marble-top Victorian chest to the right of the bed were purchased for their newly completed home in about 1870 in Louisville, Kentucky. The last piece of the family farm sadly was sold about 15 years ago... until that sale the abstract only contained one document... the original 1790 land grant (the land was in our family for over 200 years before the city slicker heirs sold it off for the money). There is a matching foot board too but I've got to figure out how to attach it to the foot of the bed (it has curved corners plus it's only a full-size frame to go with a king-size mattress). I'll finish painting in the bedroom tomorrow and move back into the
GREEN master bath to finish it up. "The house that your Granddaddy built" is beginning to REALLY feel like home.
Aaron, my helper, was here yesterday. He is almost finished painting the stucco on the south side of the house and has continued to work on our rain water collection system by installing gutter guards. Tomorrow or the next day he and I will set the two 1,600 gallon tanks at the west end of the house.
I hope you are enjoying the present I sent... let me know how you like it!
I love you, Ethan,
Granddaddy
PS. Call me sometime 931-598-9160
I finally got my rainwater collection system hooked up today... you might want to take a look at what I've done to harvest rainwater off of the roof of my house... click on this picture: 
I love you, baby boy... have you received your sprouter yet?
Now, for some fun... I just had a kid's "sprouter kit" sent to you so you and your Mommy can start growing sprouts (alfalfa sprouts are my favorite). It's really fun because they grow so fast you can almost watch them grow... and they taste good and are good for you.
Here's a video that teaches you how to grow sprouts... your "kit" will have everything you need:
Another friend's wife sent me these pictures of baby Panda bears. Click on any of these pictures to learn about Pandas.
Simon says, "put your nose on the ground." Ethan, get your Mommy to tell you about the game "Simon Says."
Ahhhhh! What a headache! 
Zzzzzzzzzz:
"Got milk?"
"Please, sir, I want some more."
Ooooooh!... I need to scratch!... bad!
Okay, okay... that piece of bamboo is yours.
Zzzzzzzzzzz... we do a lot of sleeping like all babies do!
Peek-a-boo... I see you!
Push harder... you've just got to lose some weight, Meling.
The creature from the Chinese lagoon:
Cute babies, huh!?
Here's a fun video of people snapping their fingers, slapping their legs and jumping up and down to sound like a rain storm. Close your eyes and see if it doesn't sound like rain on a roof to you?:
The wall behind the headboard in the bedroom is painted with Behr brand "Orange Spice." Click on this color swatch and you'll be able to see a truer image of the color:
I think Orange Spice is a really rich color and with the other three walls being painted "Vanilla Delight" there is a nice warm, cozy feel to the room. All the trim (baseboards and trim around the doors) will be bright white enamel). Vanilla Delight:
I can't remember the exact details but this headboard was bought by your great-great-great-great grand parents after the War of Northern Aggression... some who aren't historians erroneously still call it a "civil war" which it wasn't (these Kentucky relatives are on my Mama's side). They started building their new homestead (to replace their log cabin) on the family farm in the 1850s but it was not finished until after the "recent unpleasantness," another Southern name for the war (the land was acquired in a 10,000 acre land grant in 1790... it's now Warren County, Bowling Green, Kentucky... Daniel Boone used to come by and visit).
The headboard and the marble-top Victorian chest to the right of the bed were purchased for their newly completed home in about 1870 in Louisville, Kentucky. The last piece of the family farm sadly was sold about 15 years ago... until that sale the abstract only contained one document... the original 1790 land grant (the land was in our family for over 200 years before the city slicker heirs sold it off for the money). There is a matching foot board too but I've got to figure out how to attach it to the foot of the bed (it has curved corners plus it's only a full-size frame to go with a king-size mattress). I'll finish painting in the bedroom tomorrow and move back into the GREEN master bath to finish it up. "The house that your Granddaddy built" is beginning to REALLY feel like home.
I hope you are enjoying the present I sent... let me know how you like it!