Bad news: I'm a nanny.
Worse news: for a two month old baby.
I realized upon pulling into their driveway that they have power in the Blacksburg area. This is their house:
I found this online for when it was up for sale two years ago (550g...). It actually looks a ton cooler now.
Other great news includes; the lawn guys finally came to clear brush. Its not totally completed, as there were so many briars that they have to spray and come back later to pick up the dead stuff. You can compare for yourself:
Trip wanted me to add two things to the blog on his account. One; that he fixed the mower, and he wanted everyone to see how he did it. Apparently this is a big deal for a man. He had to rig this little metal thing where a clamp used to be. He is very proud of this.
Two; last week we were eating a lovely breakfast on the front porch swing when we were greeted by a resident Carolina wren who was in clear view. They make a weird pepper grinder noise when irritated, and it kept doing this repeatedly because Goose was about. Trip was perturbed (his usual state), and decided to make a terrible screaching noise every time the wren started making it's noise. The wren called once, stopped immediately, and tried again. Trip was relentless. To both our surprise, the wren stopped all noise and movement. He was absolutely stunned. This bird did not move for at least three minutes. All the while, the look on his face was of maximum confusion. He was literally speechless. I felt bad, Trip didn't.Eventually the bird flew away, silenced. True story.
Today I took Woodford and a dog-walking client's dog, Turtle, on a serious ball-busting hike. We hiked up and down and all around mountain-y foothills of Poverty Creek's trail system for several hours. I even ran some, just to escape bugs. But I
kept running even after I stealthily escaped the bugs because it felt good. My quads have been feeling itchy lately. Any distance runner knows this feeling. Woodford of course had the run of the place, but Turtle was to remain leashed by my side. Oh, Turtle. Here you see Woodford amongst a grove of wild rhododendrons. They make you feel like you are in the Lord of the Rings.
Amongst the trail system is Pandapa's Pond, where I took the dogs to cool off after hiking around all day. Its very pretty.
They turned out to be pretty good friends. Both excitable and retarded.
Some more great news; we just got all the fencing supplies we could ever possibly need for FREE on freecycle! 12 rolls of the type of fencing that we needed, which is much more than we needed, and many U-posts. This will save us SO much money, that I will feel compelled to buy a MILLION chickens! Nuggets for e'erybody! The same people also were so kind to donate to us and our up-and-coming garden project, probably around 300 pots. Some are the crappy kind that should have been thrown away years ago, but some are actually really cool. I'm excited to use them.
One last thing, I wanted to show you what the house looks like now that I cleared out the beds next to it. Scroll much further down for the "before" pictures. Oh and yes, Dad, I did cut that shrub next to the basement door down. With a hand saw. All by myself.
After the lawn guys do their thing, we plan to move the railroad ties. We're going to put our herb garden next to the oil tank, by the steps, and we want more of a fluid edge to the bed, rather than ugly wood. We (I) also speculate that it will cut down on the amount of spiders and pill bugs that make their way into the house.
Thats all folks!
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