Saturday, October 10, 2009

My latest DIY project...


Last night (Friday, October 9th) at approximately 8:25 PM Central Time my wife and I delivered our new daughter, Lucy Belle, in the comfort of our own home 40 minutes BEFORE the midwives had a chance to arrive. It was the single greatest experience of my life. Both mother and baby are doing great, and at the moment they are napping.

11 comments:

Mark said...

"My latest DIY project"...LOLLL! That was funny! Congratulations on the baby girl. My friend told me some sage advice I have never forgotten when we had our girl, "...you will love her so much you would eat the corn out of her poop."

Rabid Outdoorsman said...

Congrats! That is awesome!

Emily said...

Congratulations - she is beautiful! I told Greg that if we ever accidentally have another one, I'm having it at home. I'm so glad all went well!

Maybe next year the stars will align and you can bring your brood to Turkeypalooza!

Anonymous said...

Thanks to all of you.

Emily, I'll coach Greg if you like! I hope to make it there too!

Anonymous said...

Mad cool! DIY LOL!
Congrats:D
PMZ

Ron Layton said...

Congratulations to you and momma!!! The little ones a real cutey! You did good.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations. You have a beautiful daughter.

Anonymous said...

CONGRATS from germany as well !

Keith said...

CONGRATULATIONS!

Re the pointed sticks. These are called spunks, and they are wood splints tipped with sulphur. When using a tinderbox, after the tinder has caught the spark ans started smouldering, if you touch the end of the sulphur splint to the smouldering embre, the sulphur will catch fire. You can then light a candle or your fire.

To make these spunks you melt a little sulphur in a tin lid or similar and dip the tip of the splint (pointed stick) into the moulten sulphur. It will dry hard.

Do not use too much sulphur on the splint or it will drip fire, and do not breath in the fumes.
Best wishes and regards, Le Loup.
http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

Thanks all!

The Sneaky Ninja said...

I stumbled on here while in a cranky mood to find a diy bushcraft idea and saw this and instantly my cranky mood went away, ur daughter was born on the same day as me :)