Musings at Altitude

Last summer, I bought Denise an address marker.  It was a Mother’s Day gift in 2008.  It’s been in our garage ever since.

I’d toyed with getting it in several times between then and now, but one thing or another happened, so there it sat.

Fortunately, a good friend said, “Let’s get that address marker installed this weekend.”

So we did:

And Denise put her handprint right under the butterfly:

And it’s beautiful!  Even after waiting a year!

For those interested, here are the tools and ingredients needed for an address marker installation:

Tools

• Good friend in construction business
• Buckets
• Shovels
• Level
• Gloves
• Line Marker
• Spade

Ingredients

• 5 Bags of Quikrete (80 pounds each)
• Water

Installation

• Let good friend in construction business tell you what to do
• Listen carefully
• Remove rocks
• Dig hole 50 inches long, 24 inches wide, and 12 inches deep
• Mix concrete (Quikrete mixed with water)
• Fill bottom of hole with concrete
• Place address marker in concrete
• Level address marker
• Fill hole with concrete
• Eat lunch while waiting for concrete to dry
• Take picture of wife with her address marker
• Put handprints in concrete
• Put rocks back around address marker
• Stand back and smile knowing that this task can now be checked off your list
• Buy good friend a special gift for giving up his Saturday to check something off your list

What a wonderful change to the front of our house.

Life is good!