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Casey the kitten The first photo is self-explanatory but I thought I'd expound on the one above. The first thing I noticed about it was the date. May 9th is our anniversary and 1995 marked 14 years. I was looking for an album. Casey, not quite two yet, stepped right over me, got in there, and looked around. We're in the house three months in May 1995 and we still don't know where anything is. I will never forget the mountain of junk stuff in the living room the day we moved in. The first goal was to get everything out of sight and then sift through it at night and on weekends as time permits. It took a long time before we were settled in and, then, the table...

That table is part of a five-piece set of overpriced pecan furniture that we bought from Kirschman's right after we got married. It was the square end table pictured above, a hexagonal end table, a desk, and two shelf units. All of it was damaged when our ceiling caved in. Our pipes had burst one day after a hard freeze. So overpriced was this furniture that our homeowner's insurance, after seeing the receipt, thought it better to restore rather than pay us replacement cost. We still have all five pieces but we hate it now. We're going to someday bring them to Habitat for Humanity but we'll have to figure out what we're going to do with the things we're storing in them. Also, I hate the thought of asking Kevin, Scott S, and David to help me move it all once again. :)