Ah… June winds to a close for those of us in Mountain Time just minutes from now, while I make this last post of this fine month. For us this has been, without a doubt, a month best described as transitional. It’s nice to think that we might find ourselves calling July [...]
I finally got a chance to sit down and figure out why the blog wasn’t letting y’all post comments… a very detailed, picky little thing changed with a service my blog uses to try to filter out spam comments, and subsequently it decided to block everything! (Even mine, not that I prefer to [...]
After an awful lot of days filled continuously with thoughts of house-improvement (or -arrangement, or -cleaning, or -whatever), Jason and Gucki came into town on their summer Whirlwind Western Tour and gave us a good excuse to take a break for a while. We went for a day-hike to Diamond Lake, except I didn’t [...]
Well, it’s the end of another week and we’ve been here just about two-and-a-half of them now. Things are starting to get a bit more organized and reasonable, and I know where the peanut butter is. We’re still making frequent trips down to “the city” for miscellaneous goodies… it seems like we [...]
Today I received and installed our new projection screen. The old one was too big for our new house. I must say this one was, literally, a snap. I had it on the wall ready to roll in under 45 minutes. It helped that all the necessary tools are splayed [...]
Welp, summer is here in Nederland. It was 80 degrees today; shorts weather! The pollen is out in force, including coming in through all our open windows (even the screens) and settling on top of everything. What a mess! Hopefully this will last only a month or something and then it [...]