Posted in House, Miscellaneous on Jul 7th, 2008
John and I have been doing some running in the pool as well as just plain swimming, and I noticed recently that a vortex would start forming after he’d run only three or four laps in the shallow end. If I’m treading water under the diving board while he’s running, it’s all I can do [...]
Posted in House on May 4th, 2008
No, it’s not some new puzzle or computer game or TV show on History/History International. (Well, I am somewhat addicted to Engineering an Empire, but that doesn’t count.)
I am addicted to weeding.
At the old house, the whole YARD was made of weeds, so pulling them up would’ve been futile, and we would’ve been left with [...]
Posted in House on Apr 27th, 2008
Or, How I Broke My Glasses and Both of Us Took a Dunk in the Lake
So we bought this canoe yesterday, and since the weather was halfway decent this afternoon, we decided to take it out for a spin. Everything initially went off without a hitch. We climbed into the canoe and took off, no [...]
Posted in House on Apr 26th, 2008
Sounds like something Fisher Price would sell, doesn’t it? :-) As a matter of fact, if a Hello Kitty canoe had been available, I would’ve been ALL over that, and I bet a Fisher Price one would’ve been almost as cute.
When I was at the mall earlier today buying some jeans for John, I happened [...]
Posted in House, Miscellaneous on Apr 22nd, 2008
Just after we bought our new house last October, much of the lake turned into a mudflat. One might think this had something to do with the severe drought here in Georgia, but it was actually caused by two different repair projects going on at the same time, both of which involved drastically lowering the [...]
