Archive for May, 2005
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
Just barely.
We’re off! This will be our last entry for a while as we won’t get phone service/Internet access at our new house until June 6.
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Sunday, May 29th, 2005
In case anyone is wondering why no blog entries…
We load the rest of the UHaul tomorrow and Tuesday we head out.
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Countdown - 5 days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes…
…before we leave Texas and head home to NC. Below is our new home in Hendersonville. I removed a "For Rent" sign and a handyman’s truck from the scene; be advised that the insomnia-monster came to visit last night and I have been up since 3 AM, so forgive the sloppy Photoshop job on the [...]
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Saturday, May 21st, 2005
Ugh
Here’s a snap from my Weatherbug right now. For my family reading this in Canada, 101F is about 38C.
Yeah, I know it got hotter than this on a regular basis when we lived in Tucson but it was a different kind of heat… with the humidity it feels like a solid wall of sticky [...]
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Saturday, May 21st, 2005
Hot, Humid, Hazy, and Hellish
I took the picture of this spiderweb (I am not sure whether the spider was annoyed or grateful for the light misting of water I used to bring out the details of the web a bit) early this morning and plan on hiding in the house the rest of the day. We are under [...]
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Friday, May 20th, 2005
Lilly’s Passing
After we posted that farewell to Lilly — which was all we could bring ourselves to say at the time — a few people asked what had happened, thinking we’d had some sudden tragedy… Actually, we’d been struggling for some time with the decision of when it was "time" for Lilly. She was 15 years [...]
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Thursday, May 19th, 2005
Guest Post: Fostering Cats
We are still kind of numb from finally making the decision to release Lilly’s spirit from her failing body, and there is so much else going on now I don’t know where to begin… hopefully I will catch up a bit soon but in the meantime here is something our friends Anne and Pat sent [...]