Entries from April 2008

April 27, 2008

muck

Finals are approaching and I have been mired in the grading of lab reports and other actual *work* this week. Pearl is acting crazy as she needs to run, run, run and we only made it over to dog park once this week. Remind me never again to get any type of spaniel [...]

April 14, 2008

business in the front…

After a month or so of referring to T as ’sheepdog’ (and her refusal to wear a barrette for even a half a second as shown below) I finally broke down and cut her bangs. And I just realized now that I think I gave my baby a mullet.

April 9, 2008

on sheds and paternalism

In an effort to not appear quite so white trash we decided to have this old shed moved from next to our deck to the back corner of the yard where it could blend in and be engulfed by the overgrown vegetation on the fence. This was not a job the handyman could do [...]

April 7, 2008

strawberries

On Saturday T and I were doing some shopping at the local health food supermarket and they had strawberry samples.  I gave her one and she devoured it so I gave her another and then I put a carton of them next to her in the shopping cart and she happily munched them down as [...]

April 1, 2008

suburban dreamin’

Finally some nice weather and it is just gorgeous today.  Our exciting news is that there was an honest to god crystal meth lab bust down the street from us!  As a science person I like to think that I have some pretty decent observational skills but I was oblivious to this house (on a [...]