'Badges?' and... 'We don't need no stinkin' building permit'

And so closes the final chapter of 2004. Before dad (Mr. Brier) left for back east, he nearly completed a new kitchen cabinet for us. You can see how it progressed here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Though the product is quite usable currently, the finishing touches won’t be in place until he returns in July.

The new year also brought a belated holiday celebration with mom and sis (Jan and Faith). I got to see how the patches (Anglo = “badges”) that I had sewn into sis’ flight jacket had turned out. It was difficult to tell whether or not they were crooked when I was modeling such a small jacket on myself.

On Saturday night I (David) skipped one of my few December/January opportunities to join the night riders. Among various reasons was my lack of a rear fender. I still hadn’t managed to replace the one I broke some time ago. Yesterday I finally picked one up. As I write this, the paint is drying as it sits up in the art building. So now I won’t have an excuse for the up coming Saturday. Unless of course the fender needs a second coat of paint.