So as we all saw last weekend, we got our pad poured and finished. Now we need to seal it. Have you been to Lowes lately? Concrete sealer is like $23 bucks a gallon!

Luckily my father in law came to the rescue again, suggesting a home made method of sealing the driveway. It’s comes out to be about $33 for 3 gallons, instead of the $69 dollars it would take to buy 3 gallons of the other stuff.

It’s only 2 ingredients and dead simple - watch out for the concrete labor union though, they don’t want the secret out (hahaha - think Simpsons and the garbage can back fixer).

Across the isle from the concrete sealer, they have some other items. Look for a gallon of “Boiled Linseed Oil”, grab it. That was actually $23 bucks. We also needed a couple of things so we grabbed a 5 gallon bucket while we were there.

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On Saturday, we had the opportunity to watch The Messiah. Yep, Handel’s Messiah. I had never been to a production of it and really had no idea what it was about.

Was I in for a treat!

Let me give a slight bit of background and context. This was a matinée, it was suppose to be shorter. It turned out that there was a lot of younger visitors. So because of that, one of the conductor’s sons sang the base part - he also happens to be my oldest son’s art teacher (the other brother is in our church). Also, the conductor dressed up as Handel (no one seemed to know he was going to do that). We also were treated to a spanish translation along with, and I think this was the best part, a performance for the hearing impaired.

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