One of the big items on the to-do list is mudding and taping the drywall in our new bonus room. I figure I have about 3 more months to get it finished to meet my ten-year timeline. When we built the house, we intentionally left a portion unfinished, with the plan to do it later. Well, ten years later, I can see the finish line. However, my last experience with mudding and taping had decidedly mixed results. Here’s hoping I learned some valuable lessons last time.
As a reminder, Lunch Box Quotes are notes I include in the kids’ lunches every day. Number 1 gets a text, and 2-4 get handwritten napkins.
Visual credits to, Featured Image: Mark Maggiori – @KrissBergTweets
Quotes: @DailySowell @Mythos_Man @Gentleman_Ways @arealmofwonder
Quotes:
1. “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” – Thomas Sowell
2. “They can because they think they can.” – Virgil
3. “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” – Aristotle
4. “The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Bonus Quote: “In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity … which Nature cannot repair.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sources:
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
— Thomas Sowell pic.twitter.com/Hhd99BiHHf
— Thomas Sowell Daily (@DailySowell) April 15, 2026
“They can because they think they can.”
— Virgil pic.twitter.com/yWWrZPhwZP
— Man of Myth (@Mythos_Man) April 15, 2026
“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
-Aristotle pic.twitter.com/d5q9byvPoM
— The Ways of A Gentleman (@Gentleman_Ways) April 15, 2026
“The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche pic.twitter.com/dod3YCux1S
— Francisco Ribeiro (@fraveris) April 10, 2026
“In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity … which Nature cannot repair.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson pic.twitter.com/DVrzmDVqtS— Cian McCarthy (@arealmofwonder) April 20, 2026
I have been sucked into the vortex of western art Twitter and it is glorious.
Mark Maggiori pic.twitter.com/zqV6iswrYC
— Kriss Berg, etc. (@KrissBergTweets) April 15, 2026