Trip now holds his Master's in Science. Hooray Trip and congratulations! What does he have to show for it? A finished bottle of Woodford Reserve, as those are the best kinds of bottles of Woodford Reserve, aside from the full ones.
He made the long trek back to Illinois by plane, and came back via automobile; my car! Now I don't have to ask permission to go to the store, or feel bad that I dirty it up with a wet dog or fart in his driver's seat. Actually, the last one I don't feel bad about. Thats more funny than the others.
My job with Team Logperch is basically done, it was a lot shorter than I would have liked. However, I met some really fun people, learned a lot about fish that I don't really care about, and built some killer back muscles. I even got to snorkel in the Roanoke River. It was pretty cool, actually, aside from me being more frighteningly close to hypothermia than ever before. I got to run around in a wetsuit, big Cabela's boots, and a hot pink snorkel. Hot, right? Jamie-Boss-Man took some cool footage with his camera, I'll indulge when I get it.
I have a few pictures from the last time, the hike up McAfee's Knob with three dogs. Pretty views, see for yourself.
Speaking of the dogs, I took a few snapshots of them. Woodford especially loved the golden retriever, Kia Ora. This phrase happens to be "Welcome/Hello" in the native language of New Zealand, Maori. I asked of their knowledge, and they apparently got married there. Way cool.
Perhaps you are eager to see our improvements with the house? There have been a few. I did paint another room, a much more drastic color, with a very satisfying result! I decided to go with a very dark green as an accent wall on the west wall of the living room. The window on this wall sports the best view of the large and in charge white oak in the front yard. The rest of the walls were painted a green which was actually the dark shade lightened with white paint. Lesson to be learned: ALWAYS pour dark paint into the light. Not the reverse. We went through over a gallon of white paint, and even had to add a little primer to get even close to where we wanted. If we could have, we would have liked to lighten the other walls even a couple notches, but we had no room! Here Trip models the new walls with his gun and hound dog. What a chippity chump!
The dirt floors in our basement are now paved, too! Some guys showed up to pour some concrete into our windows, and now the mildew smell has reduced greatly. It was pretty weird to have a mixing truck show up, though. Ironically, as he was pouring concrete to our basement, he busted the hell out of the concrete that makes up our sidewalk. And so it goes.In that photo, you do get a sneak peak of our little fence project. Its not completed, but its very close. I am happy to say that the entire materials list for the fence and gate was 100% free to us, minus a couple fasteners. We used the resources we had, and it hasn't cost us more than a couple dimes! As soon as its done, I'll post pictures. We're both very proud!
Be warm in the mother land, its cold as a mine-shafter's ass down here!
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