Every August 31st is BlogDay. It is intended as a day in which “every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs.” Unfortunately I don’t actually know any other bloggers who do this but so what. Last year I recommended five blogs. This year I’ll do the same but this year I won’t be [...]
We’ve seen a bunch of odd critters around the house. We’ve encountered countless five-lined skinks, and about a half-dozen velvet ants (also known as Cow Killers). But we were pretty surprised to walk out the front door and see this fat bug on our porch. This is a Tobacco Hornworm. It’s 3½ inches long with [...]
Brand new highway sign on I-277 in downtown Charlotte fails at spelling. Nice. h/t CLTblog
A little while ago Patty went online and found a Charlotte hiking group on MeetUp.com. She joined and signed up for a hike at Lake Norman State Park in Troutman, NC. That hike was yesterday and Maegan, and I went along too. (Darah didn’t go with us.) Maegan and I have gone hiking many times [...]
Amy visited us this weekend, along with her boyfriend Steve whom we never met before. Here’s a video recap of the some parts of the weekend. And here are some other random photos too.
I had a million dollar idea and I didn’t even realize it. Ever since Darah could walk I would take her out of her car seat and put her on the ground. (Well duh, what else would I do?) I want to keep her hands away from the car door while I close it, plus [...]
I wish I knew the exact date so I could have posted something about it then, but last month a major anniversary passed by unnoticed. Twenty years ago this June Patty and I both graduated from Northport High School. Twenty years. Two decades. And last night the Northport High School Class of 1990 held their [...]