Ariella walks!
Ariella finally figured out walking today! Until now she only would take a step or two at a time. Now, she’s on a tear!
Ariella finally figured out walking today! Until now she only would take a step or two at a time. Now, she’s on a tear!
Two… months… later… Well, that time disappeared in a snap! I think the biggest thing we’ve learned so far is that regardless of how well developed your plans are when you walk in to meet with a builder, you will still go through six months of revisions before really starting. For efficiency’s sake, we scaled…
Turns out, New York State’s STAR program failed in it’s primary goal – to reduce the property tax burden. It actually had the opposite of it’s intended effect – it accelerated spending by local school districts, which in turn raises the homeowner’s taxes. I really don’t understand how politicians think. If a whole bunch of…
Doublely-good night! Both the Sabres and Taylor Hicks win! Amanda and I logged about 15 votes last night for Taylor, which based on the about 64 million votes that were cast means we had 0.00002% influence on the final outcome. As for the Sabres… can’t even take that much credit for their win. 😉
For the past few years, we’ve been heading around the corner to Evergreen Hills to cut down our Christmas Tree. Here’s a few pics from this year’s trip:
A couple Darwin Awards came up that Buffalo’s scavengers should take notice of. First, Steel is Gold: Steel is valuable, especially the high grade alloy used in steel cable. Scrap metal dealers do not ask questions. They pay in cash. And a good supply of cables can be found in elevator shafts. This particular goldmine…
We rarely go anywhere new without doing a little geocaching along the way. One thing that made this trip fun was the series of caches at rest areas along I-90 East. Out of four rest stops before we exited, we found three geocaches. The fourth appears to be missing altogether. We hit a nice two-part…
She is so cute! Congratulations to Ariella and oh boy, you thought you were busy before!!! to you guys! Love,Auntie Cheryl
OMGSH!!!!! i wish i could be there to see it!!!! can’t wait to be home!!!!!!!!
Congrats!