Archive for 2008

2008 in 38 questions

It’s that time of year again. I did this quiz thingy last year and the year before that. I got it from Sundry who got it from someone else who got it from someone else, etc.
Here goes…
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Bought a house! And adopted [...]

Bah, humbug (there, I said it)

Behold! Sock #1 is complete!

Zoë would like you all to know that she helped. And by “helped” I mean “drooled on the sock at regular intervals.”

It’s kind of been a crap week around here. Our friend and realtor who helped us find our house passed away suddenly last week. My dad [...]

Christmas. And also a giant pile of yard waste.

So! Christmas is upon us. I am going to hop on the blogging bandwagon at Rayd and write about how the Christmas season is going for me lately. The series of Christmas-related events thus far:

Josh’s grandmother comes to visit, and one of the first things she says is “I hear your mom [...]

Happy dog

I taught her another trick (make sure your sound is on):

Humbugs no more

Finally–no more humbug-ism in our house. Meet our first Christmas tree, a Clemson greenspire from Wright’s Tree Farm in South Carolina. It was raining buckets when we went, but somehow we still managed to snag a tree.

Ohai!

Oh, hi, remember me? I’ve sort of neglected to write lately, and I blame it on four things:
(1) I had the mother of all sinus infections, which is STILL clinging to me a little. I was too busy blowing my nose to open up my laptop.
(2) I got back into knitting:

(3) This always [...]

Somebody please take him to the aquarium

Can’t remember whose blog I saw this on, but it is guaranteed to make you smile.

Providence Canyon State Park

Josh, Zoë and I went camping this weekend with Robb and George – a father-son duo that Josh works with. They brought their dog Quizz, Zoë’s boyfriend. We went down to Providence Canyon in west Georgia. I’ve been wanting to check out this park for a long time, and it was definitely [...]

BFFs

No way they’d ever admit it, though.

In which I post pictures of the dog. Again.

Clearly I have slacked off on my daily photo posting. So here’s a montage to make up for it.
Check it out, the mysterious bushes in our front flower bed have finally bloomed. Turns out they are mums. One them is a huge overachiever:

We tried to get Zoë to pose with the plant, [...]