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12/15/08
Got the outside lights up.
Halfway looks like I was drunk when I did
it. Unfortunately I was not.
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11/29/08
It's like a giant experiment and now we're
apart of it.
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11/23/08
The bonfire was a success! All the
food was eaten, most of the beer drunk and a good time was had
by all.
At least I think so. We're
still in the process of recovery.
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11/9/08
The leaves are coming down
now.
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11/2/08
The leaves are definititely past
peak.
Time to spend hours and hours raking and
mulching before the cold rains of winter set in.
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10/25/08
Our vacation in Stowe, VT was pretty
cool.
We had this semi-friendly moose to
keep us company. Semi-friendly in the sense that it kept
coming around. It didn't like it too much when you got too
close.
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10/12/08
I'm ready for fall, but the woods aren't
quite.
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10/5/08
A couple of weeks and these hills will be
ablaze with color.
Hope I'm not working too much and miss
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9/14/08
The weed women are at it again
. I think I
even heard whispers of fall mulching. Will they ever
stop?
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9/7/08
Hurrincane Hanna hit this weekend and dumped five
inches of rain on us out here in the sticks . |
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8/24/08
August ain't called the
dog days of summer for nothing, though August really hasn't
been that bad the last couple of years. |
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8/4/08
The Hibiscus
are blooming.
They're pretty cool. The
blossoms start out like minature "Feed Me Seymour!" plants,
then they burst into these red
petals. |
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7/13/08
Nice hot weekend to spend at
the lake.
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6/8/08
Nice hot weekend to spend by
the pool.
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6/1/08
Blogger isn't
letting me post pictures today, so I'll throw up a summery
here.
Jen's Mom came down this weekend and worked
us like dogs. |
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5/25/08
It's like a science
project. You read the assignment, put it together like the
instructions say, then wait and see if it
works.
So far the self watering reservoirs (which I
should get a picture of, you'll never believe how it works!)
have emptied themselves in less than 24hrs.
The baskets
aren't as decorative as I'd like (I want some kind of
hanging cover), but we'll make sure the plants actually
produce before we get into aesthetics. And yes there
are plants there. If you look real close, you can see the
green sprigs hanging out of the bottoms.
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5/18/08
Not even the rain
keeps us from our yard work.
Is it ever going to
end?
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5/3/08
So much yard work to
do. Hopefully by the time summer roles around, we'll be done
or ready for round two. |
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4/27/08
Did some hiking
this weekend.
Three guesses where?
This was
Gretchen's first backpacking trip and probably CJ's last. He
seemed to enjoy it and do pretty well the first day,
but the second day was a little rough. Not bad for
a twelve year old mutt. |
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4/20/08
Global warming is
changing the nursery ryhmes, though "January showers bring
April flowers" doesn't have quite the same
ring.
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4/13/08
Spring has sprung
or at least it's trying. |
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4/7/08
With the help of my
parents, we made a lot of progress on our trim
project.
Taking a week off to do it was good.
Being sick for half that week was not.
Stay tuned for
trim project updates. I tried my best to keep a good
photo journal of all the work, but there was a lot going on
all at once all week. |
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3/30/08
I needed a bigger
wheel barrow.
Jen and I are on vacation this week. The
plan is to do all the house work we've been neglecting since
the beginning of the year.
Today we started with
yardwork and trim
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3/16/08
So many pictures of the dog!
This was another first for her. She actually ran
completely across a creek!
Exciting
huh?
Yeah well, that's all I've got these
days.
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3/2/08
Working so much during the week leaves me with very
little movtivation for the weekends. Besides hiking
the dogs, the only other thing I managed this weekend was
repotting a couple of plants.
Watch out! I'm
on a roll!
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2/23/08
Gretchen submitted
a request for more freedom. Though she did not get
approval for full house roaming, she did get her
kitchen area expanded to include the other
side.
We'll see how long it takes her to eat one of the
plants or chew through the wires.
She also got a new
bed. This is her fourth if I remember correctly. Two and
three are still around, so I'm not sure why she needed a
fourth - regardless of the fact she's currently laying on the
cold floor at my feet and not in the cozy bed.
Crazy
dog. |
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2/17/08
A week after Gretchen (allegedly) snacked on rat
poison, she's still around. She had a blood test done Friday
that proved normal, though the Dr. wants to extend her vitamin
K therapy another two weeks.
So far that's a $300 snack my dear. Hope
you liked it.
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2/14/08
Yeah yeah. We've
all see salt covered cars before, but in these parts it's been
a while. Truth is I went through a lot to get my truck to look
this way. Or maybe I'm just out of practice with winter
weather driving.
The trip to Julian
was WAY more then I expected. |
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2/3/08
It's been a while
since I've updated the "weekly" picture. I guess, since it's
winter, I was waiting for another opportunity with
snow.
Though
this was mostly ice. It limited some of the things we could
try in the Jeep
in the north central
mountains of PA. |
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