One evening at dusk we were standing at the end of the driveway and looking up at the house when we noticed 2 heads peering at us next to the garage. They suddenly disappeared. Raccoons! If they had moved down the side of the house toward the woods we would have been able to see [...]
Entries from July 2007
Resident Wildlife Part 2
July 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment
7 Months Old
July 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
Lillian is 7 months old today. We celebrated by going on a grand adventure… a walking tour to the great Potomac. Okay, so it’s only about one and a half miles from our house. We had never been on this trail though, so it was an adventure, especially pushing the stroller through a mile of [...]
Resident Wildlife
July 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments
We’re discovering one of the joys of living on the edge of a woody area… bugs. Wow. Now I know why all those guys in college come and sell pest control in Virginia. I have never seen so many bugs. Can anyone identify this guy that we found hanging out on our kitchen window?
Tags: Virginia
Phone Problems Again
July 20th, 2007 · No Comments
The last few days our phone service has been acting strangely. With VOIP this is nothing new, but the latest batch of problems have been more than annoying (can’t call out sometimes, suddenly no access to voicemail, etc.). Well, now we know why. It looks as though the company went belly up.
Sunrocket closes its doors
Sunrocket: [...]
Tags: News
What else could go wrong?
July 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments
“What else could go wrong?”
I know that you are never supposed to say those words, but in a moment of frustration three weeks ago when our phone, internet and car all quit working at the same time, I did just that.
“What else could go wrong?”
I now recognize that I did the unpardonable. I tempted fate. [...]
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