Category Archives: Family

Photo-A-Day #688 02/25/07

Dad at the Computer

Mom and Dad are using the old laptop quite frequently these days. I’m still getting used to them reading the blog on a daily basis. For such a long time they were not online so they weren’t up on everything that I was doing on the road until I came home. Now when I come home Dad or Mom lets me know that they read about my trips, and trials on those trips. I think it is great that they are following this blog so closely.

Tonight Dad and I worked on sending e-mails with pictures to friends. He just had a great trip in Florida and wanted to send some pictures to the people down there, mainly our neighbors at the Cape and my Aunt and Uncle and their two girls. So I set up a few things and showed Dad a few things then we switched places and Dad said to me, “You watching me do this is like me watching you drive nails.” And he is right, we are both very good at our talents and can see a hundred different ways that something can be done better or how we would have done it. But the great thing is that we let each other find our own ways of doing those things. And eventually we get better at them in our own time.

Today we spent the morning and early afternoon with Dan and Marcia and we went to lunch at Luisa’s with them and we met up with Nate and Sarah. We had a very nice lunch with everyone and then headed home. I am under the weather now and so I took a nice long nap when we got home. Then we watched Saturday Night Live that we had taped from Saturday. It was okay, not that great but I did like the opening and the monologue.

We then watched part of the Oscars and well, it is late and I am sick and it is time to head to bed.

You had to have cats….

This is a line my wife likes to give me each and every time the cats end up getting on her nerves. Well I get to tell her that tonight when she gets home from knitting class. Our little fuzzy angels got into our bedroom (the are not allowed int he new bedroom and usually we remember to lock them out) and knocked over the vase of flowers that I gave Allison for Valentine’s day. I was working on a post and I heard a big, loud THUMP! and I ran to the front of the house to discover the door to our bed room was open. Our cats are very adept at opening these doors in a tag team cooperative attack on the doorknob and the bottom of the door.

Oliver will climb up onto the couch and start pulling at the door with both paws. Duncan will reach one paw under the door and start yanking it toward him. They can usually get the door popped in about 15 seconds. That is unless we lock the door with a sliding bolt. Then they cannot get through, but it doesn’t stop them from trying. But they are cute.