House bottom level

my mom wanted to see some pictures of progress on us unpacking the house... below is most of the bottom level. lets just say that progress is relavite (at least the stuff is out of the box even if it has kinda regurgitated everywhere.).

why my family is great

they know stuff and look stuff up for me.

moving always mean misplacing things--at least it does for me.

earlier when we moved we didn't have internet and we don't have a tv. and i wanted to know what the weather was going to be the next day. so i called my brother and he was my remote web browser. what makes my brother even more cool is that he looked it up for me while he was on a trip. yup, that is how cool my brother is. he was staying in a hotel in tennesee (i think) and he had brought a laptop along and had internet access. so even though i am sure he had way better things to do, he took the time to boot the lap top and play my internet. that's my awesome brother.

this morning i wanted to make waffles for breakfast. i haven't found my "joy of cooking" yet. yesterday i anticipated i'd want to make waffles so i looked on the internet for the recipe and while i found many that had "good reviews" they weren't what i wanted. the joy of cooking has never let me down for waffles--they are really good--and i wasn't up for messing with something that works so well. so i called up my mom this morning and she dropped what she was doing just so she could find the recipe and read it off to me. and she knew exactly that i couln't do without that recipe. i love that she knows me, and the recipe, that well.

Cat Recognition

i was browsing around looking at different cat doors. (we are putting one in the sash window in the living room for our cat, the one from the old house was for a different window size, shape so i was looking to see what else was out there.) ran across this very, very cool project where the cat door recognizes that the cat wants in and lets it in. like in these pictures.

but then if the cat, flo, has some critter. say a mouse. the door locks and doesn't let the cat in. way cool. or if something else comes along, like a skunk, it is rejected too.


i highly reccomend the website quantum picture, specifically the flow control project.

Housing Isn't Bubbly

the new york times has an interesting article on why there isn't a housing bubble and why prices won't drop.

Note to self.. and whoever wants to read it

posted a comment on a blog post about motorcycle pollution and should return and comment again after reading the article.

New House

we did our inspection yesterday. it was fun to see the house pretty much done. they have to do a couple of things (fix the gap between the frame and the front door and the gap between the garage door and floor, and fix the garage door opener and some other little stuff like small grout cracks). but here it is in some sort of glory.

front of house

two shots of the kitchen, 12 inch granite tile, we had to buy a fridge (delivery next friday)

from the dining room looking to living room & front door

family room, gas fireplace, we added a plug and ethernet plug to the wall

view out the window upstairs by the stair well

our bedroom, forgot to get the master bath... will have to get it later and improve this picture it doesn't really show anything... the window is behind where the pic was taken, the door to stairwell is to the right of keith and the door to bath is to the right close to where i was standing

Just a Couple of Mukluks

warning: misuse of the word mukluk ahead. mukluks are in fact a soft boot or sock. i am using it in the sense that mukluk just sounds like a scoundrel... and i suppose one could think of it as something that looks nice on the outside and is fuzzy and warm, but is kinda stinky on the inside.

that's keith and i... the mukluks. we both forgot each other's birthday this year. alodia had a beautiful spiel about her husband kevin. me, i made him pack stuff up for our weekend of house sitting and pick up the renters' check.

at least we are a pair. we do appreciate each other and love each other. we just aren't so good at dates. we have a copy of our wedding invitation on the wall (at least we do when we have our own living quarters) so we know when we are married. otherwise i would just have to guess at sometime in the spring.... uhhh march i think.



btw: the pic is from visitnunavut.com which is a pretty interesting site and makes me want to visit the newest canadian province.