STORM2K

What is your next big project?

I finished cleaning thoroughly one bathroom last week, sealing all the Mexican tiles, etc. Now I am working on another bathroom. This is a huge bathroom and a lot needs to be done. I am sanding the louvered closet doors and will start restaining them next week. It will take me a couple weeks to finish this room.

Then on to painting one bedroom. We have new louvered doors going out to the pool, so the walls need a little of refinishing.

We are going one room at a time and remodeling and finishing so we can put the house on the market.

we're building adobe walls around our front patio to make a spanish garden and around the back behind the garage to make a meditation garden.

I'm expanding my oriental garden and staining my back concrete covered patio. (kinda a faux finish stain) (25 x 15)

We're getting ready to lay down ceramic tile in the foyer, laundry room, 1/2 bath, kitchen and 2 full baths. Wood flooring will be going into 2 of the bedrooms. Let me clarify this though...we'll be HIRING someone to lay down the tile!

Oh, I would love to see a pic of the stained wall. All our outside walls are concrete. I just let ivy, etc. grow on them. Keeps the painting down. I have bushes, flowers in front of them.

Summer Reading. I put it in a hidden tag because its rather longish.
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--Military History--

William McNeill
* The Pursuit of Power (1982)

Charles Tilly
* Coercion, Capital, and the Rise of the State (1990)

John Keegan
* The Face of Battle (1976)

Arthur Ferrill
* The Fall of the Roman Empire : The Military Explanation (1986)

Edward Luttwak
* The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire (1976)

André Corvisier
* Armies and Societies in Europe, 1494-1789 (1979).

Rober Doughty
*The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-1939 (1986).

Michael Howard
* The Franco-Prussian War : The German Invasion of France, 1870-1871 (1961)
* Clausewitz (1983)
* The Invention of Peace (2000)
* The First World War (2003)

--International Security Reading List--

John Mearsheimer
* Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001)

Michael Ignatieff
* Virtual War (2001)

Peter Andreas
* Border Games (2000)

Mary Kaldor
* Old and New Wars (1999)

Jean Baudrillard
* The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1995)

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
* Empire (2000)

Giorgio Agamben
* Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1998)

Michael Klare
* Resource Wars (2001)

Paul Virilio
* Strategy of Deception (2001)

Michael Barnett
* Eyewitness to a Genocide (2002)

William Reno
* Warlord Politics and African States (1998)

Vladimir Volkov
* Violent Entrepreneurs (2002)

Mike Davis
* Ecology of Fear (1998)

David Campbell
* Writing Security (1992)
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Trying to dig up some daylilies and move them to my raised beds and finishing filling the 2nd bay of the 2nd bed.

I have tons of outside projects to do, landscaping, etc. But, I will wait till cane season is over before I start on the yards.

Spring cleaning this weekend.

rebuilding my front porch....

cleaning

Janice, this is the floor I'll be working on and I'll take some pics when I'm done.

Dennis, do ya need your porch stained??? Got wine???

Daylilly, send some of the extra plants up this way!!!!! lol

Karan...I will buy a CASE of the BESTD wine if you come out and stain, I HATE it, I hate it, I HATE IT! LOL!

Oh, Pburgh, what a beautiful sitting area.

Well it's 12:45 here. I took the day off of work. I'm going outside and work so ----------------------- it's Miller time or (in my case) Quave chardonnay time!!!!! It's my mini vacation.

Thanks Janice. That area and my gardens keep me sane!!!!

Pburgh...We have a front porch we never used that goes out from the sliding glass doors from the family room. It is small so we made it into a room for the cats only. Talk about spoiled. They go in and out as they please and a great place for their litter box. No smell in the house. I go out there for an occasional smoke. I love this little porch. There is another long bench to match on the other wall.

Janice, those kitties look soooooo comfortable!!! What a great place to hang out. I'll come over and have a cig with you. OK? lol

See the tile you have on the floor?? Before I decided to stain my floor, I was looking at that exact same tile!! I have it in the little foyer in front of my sliding glass door leading to the porch!!!

Yes, our whole house is Mexican tile. It is new and kind of flat now, but we are waiting till we get our house projects and inside painting done, then we will have them sealed with a shiny glaze.

Has nothing to do with home improvement, but I am recording a cd with my buddy and his new band project. I'll be doing the drums for the album. Should be awesome. Can't wait to start.