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A quote from a recent recap:
“Since Aug. 9, the Indians, who were expected to contend this season, are a major league-best 12-4 with a roster full of youngsters.”

Today, we picked up Tara’s car from “the shop,” which essentially is a guy who will fix just about anything on a car. He works out of a garage attached to a body parts store, and he only takes cash in payment. Sketchy? Perhaps – but he’s cheap, and he does good [...]

Our offer: 64,900.
His counteroffer: 67,900.
Our response: OK.
Next step: sign the counteroffer response papers and call the inspectors!

We made an offer on “the house” tonight at our realtor’s house: 64,900. It turns out that the full appraisal value of the house (back in 2001, I think) was in the mid 80’s. The seller originally listed it at 79,900 back in April 2006 and since has lowered the listing price [...]

…more days of summer Greek. I’ll have the time and energy to post more often when this is over. …
In other news, we’re thinking about buying a house. More news later…

Martha Hills, a lady from Maple Grove Church of God in Anderson (where I grew up), died this past Sunday.
She was a nurse during her working years, but I remember her most for teaching Sunday School and children’s church while I was a kid. She also mailed me little notes of encouragement and prayer [...]

Our cars often get the raw deal when it comes to nature’s feeding cycles. Our part of the street sits precisely underneath a couple of large trees which are, apparently, inhabited by several birds with, apparently, fantastic digestive systems. Regularly, almost daily, any car parked in front of our house gets pooped on [...]

Last night, I saw (on Detroit television, thanks to the annual Aukerman family reunion, which was held north of Fort Wayne this year) the Indians blow the remainder of a five run lead to the Tigers. With two on and nobody out in the bottom of the eighth (Tigers batting), and with the Indians [...]