I just thought this was a funny picture.

I've had problems over the past few years of my belt loops on Levi's jeans breaking while the rest of the jean is still near perfect.  My mother had been fixing them for me for a while, but thanks to Rob prompting me to see if they have a warranty, I sent a pair to Levi's to see what they'd do.  Sure enough a week or so later, we got a monsterously large box with a pair of jeans in it.  A brand new, pristine fresh pair with all the labels still on them.  Way to go Levi's for having incredible customer service.

 

So apparently Sandy Springs (part of Atlanta Metro) has big "painted turtles" at quite a few businesses.  Cross that with a turtle collector, and you have someone that wants to steal your yard ornament.  Here is the turtle lover with the life-sized turtle:

Laura and I saw Chris in Atlanta on Satuday.  I thought this was a really good picture of the two of them:

Here's something sweet...  Our friends Chris and DonAnn are both in the Navy.  DonAnn is somewhere far, far away from her husband Chris.  Each night we were with Chris this weekend, he had to be near a computer at 11pm to catch DonAnn online and email her back and forth.  1st of all, this is really cool since I didn't know Navy ships had near real time email.  2nd - look how much concentration Chris puts into typing with just two fingers:

Just kidding Chris!  You go pretty fast for only using two fingers on each hand :)

Our girl cat, Bella, has taken to sleeping on top of the entertainment center in our bedroom.  Keep in mind the shortest part of the ceiling pictured is 8 feet off the ground and the boards she is standing on are approximately 1 inch wide.  Apparently this is the way she gets up and she jumps down on the bed.  She also apparently does this when the fan is running only a few inches away from her.  A very strange one, that Bella.  By the way, excellent job camerawoman (Laura).

Our Christmas Cactus (courtesy of my sister Tara) seems to like the sunlight it gets in our living room.  See the sprout on the middle stalk?  Go cactus!

Here's a current pic of my "children":

This is one of the largest spiders I have ever seen outside of a zoo:

It's abdomen was almost the size of a dime.  And it apparently liked Plus better than Regular or Premium.

Having not worked on 280 for two months now, I consider myself very lucky.  The other morning I had to go to the doctor's office and pretty much got scenes like this one the entire way there.  Stoplight to stoplight of semi trucks:

Wilson should be back next weekend.  I am looking forward to having another cat to torment.  Heh heh heh.

I made a cat tower for Wilson since he seemed to like ours so much when he was over here.  It's mostly plywood and 2x10s (ripped down to smaller sizes) covered in carpet left over when we re-carped our Huntsville house (before selling it).  Can you say lots of fun with the nailgun and staple gun?

One of the guys here at work took off on a vacation for a few days.  Apparently it's funny to vandalize someone's office while they're gone.  Wish I had a lock on my door :)

I'm not sure which is my favorite, the hut-like material as a backdrop on his walls or the fake spanish moss on the floor.

There were quite a few people setting off fireworks in our neighborhood over the weekend, but these are pictures of what we saw through all the trees...

And this was a picture taken down our street.  Not sure why they were setting off fireworks with all their house lights on.  It was also very humid and you can tell my lens was fogging up on the picture below.

The cats ruled the house this weekend.  Here's a picture of Bella successfully hiding from George & Wilson.  I think she aged 2 months over this 3 day weekend.

Rob finally sent out pictures from our last party.  I really need to learn to take pictures while people are here.  A few of the highlights:

L to R: Cherrie, Laura, and Becca on the playground...

I'm really not sure how I slept through this, but at some point apparently Christian jumped me and Rob shot a flash in my face after I had already gone to bed:

The damage after the weekend (thank goodness there were a LOT of people here):

And the kicker for me....  out of all the pictures Rob took, this one turned out upside down.  I am curious to find out...  was Rob hanging upside down on the monkey bars?  Or do pictures of Crazy just turn out upside down for some reason?  The world may never know...

Here's a funny picture we just took of Wilson:

It looks like we will get some devil kitty love this long weekend - Wilson is coming to stay with us.  Maybe I'll end up with some more bizarre pictures to post here...

I am very excited...  they seem to have the light poles up at the exit I usually take to get home in the afternoons.  This will make my drive home WAY easier and faster once they get it done.  Let's just hope it's soon.  It looks like they have all the wires run and just have to hook things up.