This spring we got a new roof on our house. Since then it really hasn’t rained much (not a drop in the past two months). Yesterday it rained hard and consistently and we learned the hard way that the roofers screwed up badly in one section of our new roof. Where our garage roof butts [...]
Our new roof was finally installed today. As I wrote last week, back on March 28th a quick but violent storm blew threw Charlotte and dumped nickle to quarter sized hail throughout the neighborhood. It pelted our cars (see photo) but we saw no visible damage so we thought we had dodged a bullet. But [...]
Maegan woke us up at 4:10 a.m. this morning, telling us about a loud banging noise outside. Without looking we told Maegan that it must just be thunder. She said it didn’t sound like Thunder, and then we started to hear it too. Bang, bang, bang. Over and over again, a short low rumble that [...]
I’ve now been living in Charlotte, North Carolina for ten years.
Last Sunday just after midnight we had a brush fire in the field behind our house which has been labeled as arson. On Thursday at 2:00 am we were awaken to the sounds of returning fire engines. The field was burning again. This time the firefighters already knew how to get to the field so [...]
It’s 1:50 a.m. and the last fire engine just left. Behind my house is open farm land. Here’s a photo I took of my back yard five years ago when we had so much rain that it was flooding. But we ‘re currently in an extensive drought, without any significant rainfall in months. So in [...]
Sorry I haven’t been blogging lately. Here’s what’s been going on over the past week that wasn’t really worthy of dedicated posts. I didn’t play disc golf for a full month because of the incredible heat we’ve had in Charlotte all of August. On Thursday I played in my first tournament in 6 weeks, and [...]
Have you seen the episode of The Simpsons episode with Simon Cowell? It starts off with Homer and Bart leaving the water running in the upstairs shower only to later have the entire tub crash down through the living room ceiling? Well that’s close to what happened late Friday night / early Saturday morning. Late [...]
So Patty and I move into our new home and the first full day, this is what happens… I’m unpacking the car and see a huge swarm of bees moving down the street. I’ve never seen anything like it before in my life but I calmly walk inside, close the door, and call Patty over [...]
PATTY AND I ARE HOMEOWNERS! Before we were just under contract, but now we’ve actually signed the documents to make it official.