Today was a nice warm spring day in Austin, and it gave me an opportunity to get outside some. I just got a new digital point-and-shoot camera and was playing with it on the front porch this afternoon when I noticed some honey bees on our bushes: I also put together a new park bench [...]

Austin and the surrounding areas have been almost completely shut down by snow and ice, or as the local media is breathlessly referring to it, “ICE STORM ’07.” It’s been below freezing since Sunday night, and we started getting freezing rain and sleet Monday afternoon. It continued throughout the night last night, and when I [...]

It’s been a long time since I last updated this blog, and a lot has happened in the meantime. We closed on our house November 15 and moved in on November 22 (the day before Thanksgiving). The long process of unpacking and organizing everything is still in progress, but with help from our families we’re [...]

We went by the house today, and it’s pretty much done except for some touch-up work. The landscaping is finished: About all that’s left is the walkthrough and inspection on Monday, then the closing on Wednesday. Our shipment from California is being picked up tomorrow, and should be here either the end of next week [...]

The work on our house is coming along nicely. We stopped by late this afternoon to see how things look, and they’ve made quite a bit of progress while we were in California. The stone work on the entry way is finished, and they poured the driveway and sidewalk and regraded the front yard so [...]