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Just got into our room a bit ago. It’s pretty nice. Here’s a shot from our window: Ava never did nap today, and she spent the last couple hours of the day running around at her cousin Zack’s birthday party. You lucky registered users will get to see the fallout from that in a subsequent […]

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Pretty uneventful day on the road. Before we left, I got my camera out of my bag and set it next to the driver’s seat, just in case. It wasn’t long before I saw something I wanted to get a picture of. So, this guy buys a Navigator for God knows how much, and when […]

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Recent blog comments indicate I’ve missed posting about some recent developments. So, here goes…. First, the new job. I interviewed and was hired for a new position in my department, so I’m not going anywhere. It’s not only a new position to me, but it’s a new position in my workplace, and my first order […]

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Leah and I stopped by a local joint called The Blind Factory at noon today to look at window shades for the new house.  Leah spends a lot of time walking around in the buff, so shades are a top priority for her.  I’m a bit more modest, so I don’t see the matter as […]

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I’m closing up my old position at work in preparation for starting my new job second week in April. Also, I took a half day of vacation today to get the car into the shop and to meet a plumber and an electrician over at the new house for bids. We also had an appraiser […]

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Another crocus. Cool! And the daffodils opened up this weekend, too. Nothing like a little warm air, sunshine, and rain to get the garden moving. I’m most excited about my scabiosa, which looks like it may have survived the winter alive this year for the first time. I can’t wait to see if it blooms.

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Ava and I were in the side garden last evening after work, clearing some dead leaves and branches from the bed to make way for all the new greenery poking up everywhere. To our surprise, a clump of wet brown twigs were covering this beauty: A teensy crocus straining to get some sun. I don’t […]

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One of the coolest things about living with a toddler is that you get to see all their firsts.  Well, most of them.  Sometimes, of course, they’re off at daycare or with grandparents or in the other room, and you miss the actual moment.  But it’s still fun to share the thrill with them when […]

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I’m ordinarily pretty good at handling stress, but these last couple weeks have started getting to me.  The impending move and all of its details are mostly to blame, but there have been other things going on that have contributed to my befrazzlement. One milestone that I was glad to get out of the way […]

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So my mom asks me last night if I can help her this morning with a load of junk she’s hauling out to the local landfill. “Sure,” I say. I needed a ride to work anyway, since Friday is Leah’s day off. My mom rolls up to our place at 7:1o. I hop into the […]

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So, I went shooting off my mouth about working up a new theme for avablog now that it’s hosted at a new site. It seems like I should update the look around here. It’s been a while. But I’ll be jiggered if there’s not a downright dearth of simple, clean WordPress themes out there. So, […]

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avablog now has a new home, thanks to my friend Greg, who graciously offered me a virtual domain on his site5 account.  It’s good to have friends in high places. What this means is that the blog will have a much better uptime; it won’t come down when I, say, move my server to a […]

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I had an interview today for a new position at my office. It was an excuse to get dolled up a bit in my fancy duds, which typically only leave the closet when there’s a wedding or a funeral to attend. Here’s what I looked like: That’s my JC Penney pose.  You can tell little […]

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I’m a believer in buying locally, but I don’t think that local businesses should take advantage of my predisposition by not competing at all in the market.  For example: Leah and I like the sink we now have at our house.  We’re talking about getting one just like it to put in at our new […]

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In case anyone was wondering where Ava gets it: As near as we can tell, this picture was taken when Leah was about Ava’s age.

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The last week has seen Ava entering a new stage (phase, whatever) of development characterized by an unwillingness to go to sleep at night. Over the past couple months, she’s been really good about going to bed in her big girl bed, reading a couple books, and then drifting off to sleep while we (mostly […]

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Here’s a rare public moment of cuteness for all you unregistered avablog visitors: Ava was eager to get out and shovel the snow after the storm we had last Saturday, but alas, all we got was a bunch of ice and slush. No matter. She picked up her little shovel and got to work clearing […]

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We’re talking about closing on our house deal toward the end of May.  That means Leah and I will probably move all our stuff out of the house over the May 19th weekend.  Whew.  That’s awfully close.  Because we’ll have some work done on the new place before we move in, we’ll live at my […]

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