This is the one clear picture taken last weekend at our party...  we're waiting on Rob to get to Sacramento so he can find his data cable and send us the pictures he took while he was here.  Good luck in finding a place to live Rob.

Laura and I gave my mother this cow last year for Christmas...   it is now peacefully sitting in her garden area of the back yard guarding all the plants.  Nevermind that the slacker cow has let poison ivy grow up among the plants.  Bad cow.  But it makes such a good lawn ornament...

This is crazy and his new Avalon.  Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

This is Rob's foot.  People were mean to him while he was sleeping.  Now he's using fingernail polish remover.

My latest freebie project...  update our homeowner's association web site.  I only spent a few minutes on it this time around but hope to have a lot more dynamic content soon.  We'll see how that goes.

Thanks to all of you that showed up over the weekend.  Everyone seemed to have a really good time.  Laura and I enjoyed seeing all of you and hope we can do it again soon.

A better picture, as promised.  This one is even clickable for a larger version.

Rob is a very bad man.  He didn't tell us he had an exellent view of downtown Birmingham.  In fact I had no idea of what his place even looked like before Sunday.  He asked me if I'd come over and take a good picture of his view instead of this one with my phone camera, so hopefully I'll have a better copy to put up here soon.

Those of you that knew Crazy at his previous job would apprecaite what Laura and I did to the keys to his (Kia!) rental car. 

Crazy had a wreck a few days ago.  He is 100% ok (or at least as ok as he was before the wreck).  His car (humbly called the "POOmobile" due to the way his license plate reads) was not however.  Credit goes to Toyota for him walking away from this one.  Notice the trunk is as destroyed as the front but the center part is just fine.  His clothes are even still hanging in the back window.

I believe our subdivision put a dock in before I had a blog...  this was one of the most bizarre things to watch them construct.  The little construction crew created two 4'x6' platforms and drove in 2 posts...  anchored one end of the platform to the posts then drove two more posts (in the water - using a sledgehammer from a canoe) in to hold it above water.  Then they took the other platform and submerged it at the end of the other one and then drove in two more posts at the end of that platform.  So the end result is more or less an underwater platform (which I assume is for embarking/disembarking on the long voyage around the tiny lake).  Maybe I should buy a kayak.  Not sure why they don't want anyone to use them though.  I wonder if this sign will be permanently up.

The original freak is back in true hissing form.  He should be here through Sunday.  Bella is so happy.

Crazy.  You know who you are.  For those that don't know, here is Rob's drawing of him from a Maccaroni Grill table cloth:

I have been waiting to post this since I wanted to see them in action, but it has been a couple weeks now and I haven't been stopped by a train yet.  A few months ago, someone was killed at the railroad crossing near our house.  I suspect that because of this they installed new railroad lights and gates.  It was previously just the white "X" sign and a stop sign that nobody ever stopped for.  Since the gates and lights went up, they pulled up the stop sign, so it will probably be a couple more months before I remember to not stop there.

Just because I posted that last message to the blog, on my way home from work yesterday the sun came out.  Only for about a minute and a half and then it was gone again.  It was so bright I had to get out my sunglasses.  The camera couldn't even register the color of the sun it was so bright:

I am really getting tired of rain.  It has been raining all week.  The forecast has it raining for at least the next 10 days.  I can't believe how insanely wet this time of year has become.  When the rain finally lets up, I might get a chance to mow our now well-watered weeds.

So apparently one of my (now former) co-workers had a former co-worker that would say some very funny things at work.  They made a web site of his sayings.  An example:  "A margarita will help you greatly"

Wisdom of J Dog

It's been a while since I posted anything on here because I have a new job now.  While it's sad to leave some friends behind at the old one, I am in a much better place now.