Do you have the latest Google Chrome browser installed? If so, set aside ten minutes of your time and visit The Wilderness Downtown using Chrome. It’s pretty impressive what the creators of this website have done with HTML5, but you really have to see it for yourself. Without giving too much away, you start off [...]
Mike
Sep 022010
Aug 312010
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 [...]
Aug 302010
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 [...]
Aug 292010
Brand new highway sign on I-277 in downtown Charlotte fails at spelling. Nice. h/t CLTblog
Aug 152010
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 [...]
Aug 082010
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.
Aug 022010
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 [...]
Aug 012010
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 [...]
Jul 242010
We picked Maegan up at camp yesterday. It was a three hour trip. We got there an hour early yet we still only managed to be the fourth car in line. Before the gates opened the line of cars was literally beyond sight down the mountain road. While we waited for the gates to open [...]
Jul 232010
Here are more photos of Maegan at camp. This was the week that she went backpacking with llamas. We pick her up tomorrow.
