Entries from April 2007

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

May flowers?

It was a relatively uneventful week given I spent the first half of it in bed trying to rid myself of some sort of fevering and aching illness. Miles and I have been making our circuit of the neighborhood most mornings. We’ve been admiring the progress of our new town pool being built [...]

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Happy (belated on the blog) Birthday Adam!

I didn’t forget to call but I was traveling and wasn’t able to post!

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

Springtime

We’ve been spending as much time as possible outside this weekend. Along with Rob and Traci who are visiting this weekend, we ate lunch at Milltown outside, had popsicles at locopops (outside), went to a Durham Bulls game, and had dinner at Top of the Hill on the outside deck! In other news, [...]

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

1991

Ellen and I are cleaning the house today and finding all sorts of treasures to recycle or throw out. Part of my problem is I have a huge sentimental attachment to objects like these:

I went to the John Wesley Harding show with Shannon and Pete…on a weeknight in DC when I was 16! [...]

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Maryland is for Crabs

Elm and I made our way up to Baltimore to retrieve our fixed car–it took a week to get it fixed after the radiator and some other parts malfunctioned on Pratt St. It was a happy reunion for Bert and Miles who are showing their age and can no longer rumble for hours on [...]

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Freezing

I woke up this morning to below freezing temps outside and I had to switch our heat back on (we’ve had it set on AC for the past few weeks). The tulips look like they are in shock. At least I didn’t wake up to a foot of snow like some folks I [...]

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Decemberists

We had a great time seeing the Decemberists Tuesday night in Raleigh. It was a sit down show but everybody stood up and at one point lots of people from the audience got on stage (with Colin Meloy’s invitation):

My Brightest Diamond had a nice short set (I like them but not for [...]

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

My Brightest Diamond

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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Engaged!

Congratulations Shannon and Sarah! I can’t wait for the party in 2008!

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Unsafe?

I think this product looks a little unsafe but I think I will get one for every new parent I know! I am also questioning Google’s latest offering. It sounds good but the install directions look a little messy. Rabbit, rabbit.