The (I’m led to understand; I wasn’t there) nice and polite HVAC guy visited on Wednesday, and informed us that our aging and basic central air system had blown a compressor. It’s dead. Shuffled off the mortal coil (though the heating coil is supposedly okay), joined the choir invisible, pining for the fjords. Damn. I […]
Yes. I Can Has. The guys from Harrison Paving finished up around 4pm yesterday. The fixed my nasty sinkhole, and resurfaced the whole business. The complete resurfacing cost a little extra, but I had the money, and just look at it…it was worth it! –click for the full size version– I honestly would have been […]
After being stood up by paving guy number one, and once last night by paving guy number two, the owner of Harrison Paving (that’s company number two) came by this morning, apologized for last night’s mishap, and offered me a good price well within my budget (and should leave me enough left over in the […]
Not to diminish the reasons and motivations behind the actual celebration of Memorial Day, a worthy day of remembrance and celebration of the service of our nation’s veterans, that more people perhaps ought to consider (particularly, you know, people in power right now, and those seeking power), but I’d honestly rather just put this particular […]
…but I did get all these neat pictures from Nationals Park! Despite my chosen team’s loss, it was a nice, cheap evening’s entertainment. Tickets, for the record, were five bucks. A hot dog, fries, and a soda were another seven. With metro fare included, the evening still came in under twenty bucks. You’ll get no […]
We slept peacefully through distant thunderstorms last night. The gentle tapping of raindrops on the house and the leaves on the trees outside imparts a unique calming feeling. Of course, when one’s alarm clock goes off at 5:40am after such a restful night, one does not wish to leave the peace and comfort of one’s […]
First, let me direct your attention to the photo gallery, where I added a handful of shots from Andrew’s baseball game on Saturday. Shots taken with something other than a cell phone camera, even. Second, although this news a bit old, and we filled most everyone in already, Yes, one of the tornadoes in Virginia […]
…most of the time, such as here, where she got a really, really, great grade on her poster/presentation on Independence Day: Note the first element, “Appropriate Dress”. This meant that Mary had to dress as her topic. Some kids had historical figures. Mary had a holiday. She had to dress up as “Independence Day”. That […]
It may have rained the rest of the weekend, but the weather dieties conspired to give us a really nice Saturday morning for Andrew’s first baseball game. Bright, sunny, high seventies/low eighties, with just a hint of breeze. The game was scheduled to start at 11am, with practice/warm-ups beginning at 10:15am. We left the house […]
