animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

batty

Early Labor Day morning (around 3:30am), I woke up to go to the bathroom. When I opened the bedroom door, I saw something fly out of the room and then back in. I turned on the bedroom light and immediately shut the door, thus locking Brian and the three dogs …

day off

This looked to be one of the last nice days of the year, so I took the day off in order to wrap up some things outside. I washed both motorcycles and both cars (I had to run to the office after lunch to swap vehicles) and touched up the …

no naps for the busy

Sunday was a busy day. I started off the morning with a run (Did I mention I’m running now? It’s not very far–I just go around the block twice, which is one mile, and I’m doing more walking than running at this point but it’s a start). Later in the …

366

So, there’s the photo thing that’s been going on the past few years, Project 365, where you take a photo each day and post it somewhere for people to see. The idea behind it is to make yourself a better photographer. Jake received a new camera for Christmas this year, …

infrequent occurrences

So, the earthquake yesterday was pretty exciting. Who would have ever thought we’d have an earthquake in Pennsylvania? I was sitting at my desk and heard Brian get up and walk down the hall. My first thought was that he was walking rather heavily to be shaking the walls like …