Posted by Katherine on November 14th, 2007
It was beautiful outside today. When I got home from work at about 4:30 the sun was just beginning to set and I decided to bring the cats outside with me and just enjoy the warm weather. As I sat in my chair watching Zoe try to instigate a fight with the neighbor dog through the fence, Moses suddenly jumped and swatted at me. Assuming he must be going after a bug, I calmly looked around… and saw a tail! I jumped out of my seat and realized that I had apparently been sitting with a gecko!
Now I am not afraid of lizards, like I am of snakes, but I was certainly not too happy to find out I had one on me! I made the cats come in the house with me and I still feel all creepy-crawly like I might still have a lizard on me that I just haven’t discovered yet.
One thing is for sure… Moe is getting extra treats tonight!
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Posted by Patrick on October 17th, 2007
A few things.
Moe’s Southwestern Grill
Kate suggested I pick up some supper from Moe’s the other night. It was tasty food, and plenty of it. It was like a Mexican-food Subway (although nicer/more expensive then Subway), where they sort of custom make your food in front of you. I had something called a Joey Bag of Donuts (which had, for the record, zero donuts) and Kate had a burrito known as the Homewrecker. They also throw in a bunch of tortilla chips, which was a nice touch. Good eats.
Tools for Homeowners
For agreeing to act as Kristen and Josh’s Best Man Maid of Honor well-dressed witness in their recent hitching, they were kind enough to get me a prize. It was a box full of tools! A power drill and saws and a sander and a way way bright flashlight and an industrial dustbuster.
Kristen suggested I build a crib with the tools. Based on our prior building history, Kate suggested I perhaps start with building some shelves. Shelves seem like a good start.
Southern Living
It was 84 out today. In October! I’m thinking on Halloween night, NC parents don’t have to work their kid’s costumes around their winter coats. We’re both very curious about what our first Halloween as homeowners will be like.
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Posted by Patrick on August 18th, 2007
The wave of technical difficulties having now passed (I hope), we can return to our normal posting routine. Here are some thoughts:
Hot
104 degrees again? I guess it is southern living. Central air is sweet. We went for a dip in the community pool last week and that was refreshing.
Lawn
Why does some of our yard have grass that grows almost two feet high in a week, and some not accept grass at all (just dirt patches)? The whole yard thing requires lots of learning. It’ll be a fine day for western civ when robot gardeners come on the market. Then it will be a sad day for the same civilization when the robot gardeners join together and form a super-robot that enslaves the lazy suburbanites like myself. But it’ll be good times before the great robot revolt.
Workin
My new job continues to be both rewarding (web design every day? yes please) and kind of intense. Lots of long days and learning. It’s still a little weid to use Photoshop every day and not use Excel all day long. Allegedly they’re replacing my 7-year-old G4 at work with a shiney new iMac, which is exciting.
Speaking of Webbish
Tonight I’m going to my first Raleigh/Durham Adobe User Group meeting, which I believe will be cool. Hopefully it will fill my noodle with knowledge and let me talk shop with some other designers in the field. When I try to talk about Typography with the cats, they generally just walk away. Moses will actually bite me on the leg when I talk about kerning.
Congrats
Congrats to my sister Kristen who just graduated with a master’s degree in something so fancy and smart, I can’t even begin to describe it with words.
500
Our five-hundredth Rockland-Ave.com post is coming up soon! Insanity!
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Posted by Patrick on August 9th, 2007
It was 102 degrees outside today, confirming to me that we do in fact now live in the south.
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Posted by Katherine on April 8th, 2007
So our ambitious tree planting goals are on hold. It is much chillier than we were expecting. We have had frost the past couple of days. When people in New England speak about their own weather and say, “If you don’t like the weather wait a minute,” they clearly haven’t spent much time in North Carolina. Last week high 80’s, this week high 20’s. Really all winter I had no idea when I woke up in the morning if I should wear short sleeves or a heavy coat. Then spring came and it was so warm and nice for so long and now it feels like winter again.
So instead of planting, I am baking. We are bringing cupcakes and pumpkin bread to Kate and Peter’s today. Pat impressed me by finding Easter-themed cupcake papers. The pumpkin bread is baking right now and it smells so good! Is pumpkin bread just a fall/winter thing? Well it feels like winter, so we are going to have it.
Zoe has reached new heights of spoiledness. Not only does she beg me to put her harness on, now she begs to drink out of a regular glass. And I am not about to share with someone who sticks their tongue in my water, so she gets her own… Have I crossed a line? She’s just so cute about it. I am a sucker.
But anyway, Happy Easter, eat some candy.
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