Plates, Windows, Doors, Friends and more ....

In Arkansas you can't just mail in your payment for your car registration ..... first you have to go to the Assessors Office .... so they can tax you a few bucks on your annual property tax I guess ... anyway the Dept. Of Finances (that's the motor vehicle dept) is right next door so it's easy to then pay for your annual tags. What we found out was that since we have a fish and game plate and we pay $35. a year extra for it (it goes to fish and game) we can get a different one every year if we want ..... for One Dollar .... is that cool or what? So here's our old one (which we're going to hang on a wall in our house) ....

and here's our new one ....

On a little side note .... we didn't know that you had to do the car assessment every year until Lea's brother in law, John told us that when he was at the assessors office last week, the assessor said "hey you need to let Lea and Marlene know that they need to get in here and have their car assessed" ...... small town stuff ..... oh and hey Diana .... the assessor said "Hi".

So we ordered a new living room window, a new kitchen window and 2 new sliding glass doors about 3 months ago .... well our job finally made it to the top of the list and now we have beautiful new energy efficient glass in at least part of our house. The old window you couldn't see out of and the sliders leaked water and the wind blew through them enough to blow the curtains .... kinda non energy efficient and they were really hard to open and close. So here's some photos ...



and some before and afters ....
old window

new window


one of the old sliders

new sliders


We're happy .... and Millie got her new chair

and a new friend

That is Trukha ... Marks Husky puppy who's about 4 months old now

I'll end with a photo of the Cucumber plant .... tonight we're having a fresh cucumber in our salads .... there's a nice ripe one in the middle of all this .....


Saturday we're going to buy our fireworks .... I love being able to have the classic back yard fireworks for the 4th of July!