Week in Pictures

Last week was a crazy week of 2 blog posts a day, as I looked at the Top 10 Projects for Your Home.  If you are a Homeowner, these are the projects that are going to put the most money in your hands when you sell.  It’s worth a look.

But today, I’m thinking of Family, not Real Estate.

It was busy week over here.  Saturday saw the first good frost of the season.  The cold mornings are a comfort to my Michigan soul.

We found the perfect afternoon and spent it at Pocahontas State Park.  Peace sweeps over me like the shadows of tall trees as we enter the woods.  Playground in forest.  The kids are so happy whenever we go there.

I still think it’s a really cool thing to find a turtle in the wilderness.  A feral turtle, if you will.

We chat with the fellow for a while.

If you have kids, maybe this scenario sounds familiar;

We got some small stuffed farm animals from IKEA a few months ago.  The kids haven’t been too interested in them.  But one day last week, Sam is playing with them and he asks tells me, “Get the cow to talk, Daddy.”

So I do.

I don’t just give animals voices… I try to summon the essence of their being.  I decided that the white and brown cow was the persona of the Queen of England, trapped in a bovine body:  Over the top British old lady accent.  Easily shocked.  Refined sensibilities.  I named her Clarabelle.  The black cow is her husband, Reginald.

By all accounts, Clarabelle is far too much ‘woman’ for Reginald.  But they’ve been married for a long time, and they seem to have found their niche.

 Sam got his very first remote controlled car this week.  And it makes me a little bit sad to look at this picture.  He looks like a little boy.  A real live ‘kid’ and not just baby Sam getting bigger.

 

And as the cooler weather sets in, I spend my free time doing something that I love…

The garage is transformed into the Cedar and Salmon Workshop.

What’s the project, you ask?

Wooden play kitchens.  I put them up on Etsy this week and shipped my first one off to New York City.

Etsy is amazing if you think about it.

The implications of Etsy didn’t dawn on me until this week.

Think about this… Etsy might be the most effective yet quiet Occupy Wall Street movement around.

Why purchase from huge corporations when the people around you can create wonderful things?  In large part, Etsy makes it possible.

I just shipped a wooden play kitchen that I made in my workshop to a lady that I’ve never met in New York City.  I think an economics and/or sociology student could write an interesting paper dissecting the various levels of implication in that one interaction.

 

Jay McGee used to live in Southeast Asia, doing language research and literacy development. Now he’s a Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Realty. He gives a microloan to somebody in a developing country every time someone in Richmond buys or sells their home with him.  Learn why here.
Contact: jaymcgee.kw@gmail.com

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