Aimee's Table

Aimee went to the lumber yard recently to get supplies for her latest project.

She cleared some space in the garage and set to work on making a table.

She gathered some design ideas from books and magazines and we settled on one that we thought would work well on our new deck.

A big deck calls for a big table and this one was designed to be pretty big.

Here is a look at Aimee in action.

Construction took parts of two weekends in the garage and then a few coats of varnish a couple of days apart and here you can see the finished product. It is 5' x 8' and fits very nicely onto the new deck.

 Another job well done by Aimee. So well done, in fact, that the next door neighbors want her to build a table for them!

Friday Night Football

     A few weeks ago we attended a football game at the Rose Bowl. It was UCLA vs. Cal.

It was a 6pm kickoff on a Friday night but we made it to Pasadena without too much trouble and found that getting in and out of the stadium area was easier than we thought it might be.

One thing that helped was having the home team get a big lead in the second half, sending much of the crowd on their way before the game ended.

We were fortunate to get good seats for this one. We went with some friends who are UCLA fans and they had access to some tickets near the 50. The highlight may have been a school-record 60-yd. FG made by the UCLA kicker on the last play of the first half.

Now we'll wait for the ND-Stanford matchup on Thanksgiving weekend and see if the Irish can get into the playoff. That would be quite an accomplishment given all the injuries to key players this season.

Halloween Tricks

Once again we got shut out on trick-or-treaters visiting the house. That's a good thing because we didn't have anything to hand out if they did show up.

It was a nice night at home watching the ND-Temple game and the World Series. Both games were very good and we had to switch back and forth between the two.