The Thanksgiving weekend is upon us, so I’m going to try and use this here computer for nothing but mindless web browsing and World of Warcrafting for the next few days. (Our Thanksgiving dinner will be Cornish Game Hens, as per recently established tradition. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘back at the ranch.’
November 9, 2009
maybe i should list it on the real estate market.
Check out what the little striped buggers built this summer:
It’s in a tree branch right above our garage, and it escaped my notice until yesterday, when I was mucking around behind the garage to re-string some invisible dog fence wire. The nest is a bit bigger than a basketball.
Because of the cold, the previous [...]
November 1, 2009
first of novembah.
Happy November! Today marks the first day of NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month.
I won’t be participating, since I’m a perennial participant in the MaNoWriYe, the Marko Novel Writing Year, which starts anew every time about three weeks after I write “THE END” at the bottom of a finished novel. For those of you NaNoWriMo’ing [...]
October 31, 2009
overheard at the breakfast table.
Me: “Lyra is at the Far Side Golden Retriever stage when it comes to language comprehension. She understands a lot, but much of what we’re saying is just ‘blah-blah’ to her.”
Robin: “Much of what we’re saying is going to be ‘blah-blah’ to them until they’re about thirty, honey.”
October 30, 2009
“dachshund” is german for “roomba”.
I call this composition “Hope Springs Eternal”. (Alternately: “Gravity, Do Your Thing!”)
October 24, 2009
a high-octane present.
The first birthday present of the weekend, courtesy of loyal minion reader John. He suggested the purchase of a bottle of Templeton Rye, but they don’t sell that stuff anywhere in NH, so I took the opportunity to try a single malt Scotch that I’ve been meaning to sample for a while now.
So, thanks [...]
October 23, 2009
thirty-eight is a good number.
This weekend marks the thirty-eighth anniversary of the day I rolled off the assembly line in Germany, so I’ll be busy engaging in unbridled hedonism for the next day or two. Robin and I just finished an instance run in World of Warcraft with the Atomic Nerds, and it was a good run. Nobody died, [...]
October 13, 2009
zomg tEh 5n0w!
Here are the contractually obligatory pictures I’m required to post as a Northerner whenever we wake up to a white world while Texans still can’t cross their driveways barefooted without contracting second-degree burns.
The scene at Castle Frostbite, five minutes ago:
I guess the bird pool is now officially closed for the winter. I just took [...]
October 12, 2009
ah, a feline job applicant.
One of the neighborhood cats must have heard about the abundance of mice in our house, because it paid us a visit to see about the open Mouser position we had advertised in the Cat Bugle. It showed up on our porch right when Robin let the dogs out this afternoon. Unlike the unlucky raccoon, [...]
October 5, 2009
the terrible, horrible, no-good, busy as hell day.
Whenever you have a house guest in a house with small kids, and that guest spends a lot of time playing with the kids, the days after the guest’s departure are usually fraught with discipline issues. The kids have been bouncing off the walls today, and there was a little more than the Daddy-recommended daily [...]
