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springtime!

no, it’s not “springtime for hitler,” but the yard is coming alive with color.

link to Yard + Flowers 2007 photoset on flickr – we’ll be updating this as the year blooms on!

a refreshing change

this weekend, in addition to the usual home improvement and homework activities, we decided we needed a break from everything, and took a quick 1/2 day jaunt up to Bellingham, WA.

5 hour commute

does it sound like grousing? anyway. i got home safe. but i pretty much idled up I-5 in first gear (and that’s when i was moving!)

here’s some pictures from around the house this morning.

1/3 of a long weekend spent on the house

last weekend we had one amazing day of weather (saturday). like, upper 60s and sunny. i took advantage of this to clean up the yard, re-cut some landscape edges, do some random work in the front. but the big news, is that i smashed my finger with a hammer.

hopper + slipper

mom sent this slipper toy/bed/… thing. her cat didn’t regard it much, ours like to wrastle on it and occasionally nap.

school update: midterms

so, just a quick update on how school is going for me.

i just hit midterms, and it was kind of a rough week. lot of reading to do, lot of online exams & quizzes. one nice thing, however, is that if your online quiz/exam contains only multiple choice/true-or-false questions — you get instant grades when you’re done!

so far, i’m above the class average in all my courses on all assignments, quizzes, exams, and required discussion boards online (the online equivalent of “class participation”). if i continue at this pace, i should do quite well.

falcon!

in keeping with the “here’s a random cat” theme, here’s falcon (a.k.a. “fuzzy butt”):

the new chairs

fine, mom requested a picture of nora on the new chairs.

they’re from La-Z-Boy and they’re called Fletcher.

these replaced the enormous blue denim furniture that really overwhelmed our tiny little house.

here's Nora!

since i just renewed my account on flickr, i thought it only fitting to use up some of their bandwidth. here’s nora!

you don't know me, you don't wear my chains

Augustana‘s “Boston” on the ipod. good stuff, we happened upon them because they were opening for some of the Goo Goo Dolls / Counting Crows shows in the last tour we saw.

this is a general ramble/update; there is no direction. read on for all the latest news of the recent past and the present.