Payments

On Sunday, I thought of an idea to bring a bit more calm to the house. If SKGP or I yelled, we would have to put some money in the jar.

For the most part, it seems like the plan is doing some good. We've got about 7 cents in the jar today.

EJP's New Room

Last night, we put EJP into his own room for the first time. He had some trouble going to sleep. Once he was asleep, he woke up a couple times. At 1 AM, RCP spent about an hour with him.

Tonight he went down pretty easily; he's obviously tired. At 9:44, he woke up and cried once, but went back down easily. He seems to lose his pacifier, and become disoriented when he wakes up without it.

The time of the pacifier might be coming to an end soon. RCP offered him money to trade for his "fire". He immediately threw about 4 of them to Rory, but thought about it for a second, and took two back.

We've told him that we're going to mail them to Baby Alex, who is the one year old son of one of RCP's cousins.

WallaceFest '05

The Wallaces are back in town. Stand back.

A Walk In The Woods

This afternoon, I went for a hike in the open space behind our house.

After crossing a grasssy plain, I came to a small creek. There are many deer trails around, so I followed one across the creek. On the other side, the ground begins sloping up and it is fairly densly packed with trees and bushes. As I wound my way up the steep hill, I kept expecting a mountain lion to eat me. Luckily that didn't happen.

After a long climb, it became tough to go up, so I turned back towards home. I had to scramble through much brush and do some backtracking, but eventually I made it back to the creek.

At the creek area, I found some nifty red boulders and rocks, one of which I grabbed as a souvenier.

I followed the creek down towards home. At one pool, I was overwhelmed with the desire to make a dam. It was strange, but compelling. I dropped in a couple rocks and sticks, which didn't change much, but satisfied my male instinct.

Behind one of the houses under contrustion, a long snake basked in the sun.

Rather than go home right away, I turned south, across the bridge to the next part of the development. After about a half mile of road base, where two motorcyclists were speeding along, I was once again in the wild. I crossed a rotting wood bridge and walked by an aging corral.

As I returned home, a large turkey was sitting on the top of the corral. Before I could get a camera phone pict, he had hopped down and headed into the hills. I reached home without further adventure.

I'm really looking forward to doing hiking in these hills. I think I'll be more comfortable if I have a friend along; my inexperice at trail blazing makes me nervous. I also plan on finding my GPS and hooking it up to some topo software I've got, so I can see where I've been.

The End Times

Hotel Day 90
PaceHouse II Day -11

We have had a walkthrough with our builder. There were a few mostly cosmetic problem that they are going to look into. We met with a family friend, who is going to give us a bid on doing our patio and hillside wall.

On Monday, we sign our escrow paperwork. Next Friday, we give them our money.

Behold, the end is near.

Guess What Happened?

The fire alarm went off again. At least this time it was during the day, so none of the kids was asleep.

Swimming hooligans are to blame. Or maybe the soccer hooligans. They're both swarming everywhere.

Flooring

The hardwood has been installed, most of the floor tiling is in.

Wow, we're going to have a house soon.