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projects, projects, projects.

why no update in so long?

see the title, it says it all. we’re elbows deep in summer projects on the house. currently happening simultaneously: exterior paint. refinishing deck. continued landscaping upgrades/maintenance. we have to make hay while the sun shines, so to speak.

the weather has gotten more cooperative, for the most part. as long as it stays dry until we re-install the gutters, i’ll be happy. (and so will the gutters – they’ll actually be functional once we re-install them correctly!)

i could drone on and on but instead i’ll choose to wait until tonight, to take and post more pictures of the front yard. the dahlias are blooming!

meet: julie

well, it had to happen eventually, right?

in raising over 200 foster kittens, we’d only adopted 3 kittens. here’s #4 that we couldn’t pass up. her name is julie.

guess what i did this weekend?

can you guess what i did this weekend?

i can't stop the world

the goo goo dolls, on the ipod, who i’m seeing perform with the counting crows tonight at white river amphitheatre in auburn, wa. looking forward to it – these two bands have been guilty pleasures of mine for a while. so what’s been going on?

backwards weekend

so, a typical memorial day weekend might be spent drinking beer, then going to work at the end.

when have you known me to be typical? well okay, you got me there. but we spent the weekend, in addition to doing household chores & work, doing work on our kegging setup, and didn’t get it done until late monday night.

our next project is tanking

no, i’m not adding Nitrous Oxide injection to my car.

we’re assembling the parts to finalize our kegging/draft beer setup. since we started homebrewing, we’ve grown more and more tired of collecting, stripping, cleaning, and sanitizing bottles. read on for more info and pictures that only a homebrewer could love.

yay! sunny friday afternoon

so, i’ve been pretty busy with work and whatnot but i’m finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel (and no, in fact, it’s not a train. this time.)

so i’m doing some light HR-related stuff and enjoying a sunny view out my 16th story window. the weather for the weekend looks good as well, so we’re preparing for a flurry of productivity AND fun this weekend. it should be a hoot.

and this post is another excuse to share one of my favorite tulip pictures from our visit to the festival a few weeks back.

front yard flowers, emerge!

this weekend we put some time into the front yard again. a few months back, carrie planted several (dozen? hundred?) bulbs, and the tulips are just about at their peak.

the other plants are waking up to summer, too. the euphorbia are big and beautiful, the dafs are out (they preceeded the tulips by a week or two) and most all the rest are coming along nicely.

stumped, again

yes, i know that most people might think i have an unhealthy obsession with an axe. it’s a handy tool, for sure.

combined with our recently acquired rotary tool (used here for sharpening), the axe provides a level of damage unmatched by most other manual tools. i put said damage to good use this weekend to work on removing another stump – this time in the backyard, nestled snugly between the deck and fence.

a brave new world of web publishing

so, i’ve begun experimenting with a desktop client to update my site from.

generally this is meaningless to the reader, unless the reader is a geek like me. what this will do, however, is allow me to update this site using a simple desktop application on my computer. this will allow me to more easily work offline and update more frequently — that’s good for everybody!