It been a little while and still I'm no further forward on getting our piccies up to a good site just yet, still umming and arring about how I should do it.
I havea little site up and running now and all that left is to post some piccies - you know I may get it done this weekend - Sunday supposed to pee down with rain and if that the case then I might as well get it done.
It only small, the web site that is but it will be a starter and I can then work on refreshing the piccies every now and again - now that should be fun and may take me a while in the old addage of Scott of the Antartic!
It's Friday, it's sunny and about time to go home and get a beer or 3 and chill out on the deck and watch the sun go down, that is after I do a few chores outside - di d I say it might rain again :)
Friday, May 05, 2006
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Time... ain't on my side :)
This will shock a few i'm sure!!
It's been a busy start to the year and work is taking most of that, I work for a big software company and the are working thru a new version of an operating system - there shouldn't take to long to figure out who..... 1, 2, 3.... have ya got it yet :)
So what been happening the last few weeks... you may ask, well I have been out biking (once) was a 32 miler to a local brewery where one had to partake in the local brew :p was great except the return 16 mile ride kept creeping back into my head - ah well another bear will help dull the pain.
Have started to get to the gym with a couple of work buddies, lifting weights of all things and at my age it tough I can tell ya, especially as I have never done that sort of thing, running yes, weights uh uh!
We have also been dogsitting for the past 10 days, we now have 3 greyhounds and 1 wippet, so it a damn madhouse right now - dogs everywhere, and greyhounds just like cats.... just a little bigger :)
And to keep the dogs in, we had to get one side of the hill (we live in an old quarry area) fenced in, so we bought the stuff and did this ourselves. Hard work but afterwards it looked pretty good, not bad considering this is a 110ft long and on an angle of about 35-38degrees so it steep too - many a time was had sliding down the hill while trying to ram in metal posts and wire up a mesh fence.
Anyway - hopefully next time I won't be so lax on updating the old blog - toodle pip for now...
It's been a busy start to the year and work is taking most of that, I work for a big software company and the are working thru a new version of an operating system - there shouldn't take to long to figure out who..... 1, 2, 3.... have ya got it yet :)
So what been happening the last few weeks... you may ask, well I have been out biking (once) was a 32 miler to a local brewery where one had to partake in the local brew :p was great except the return 16 mile ride kept creeping back into my head - ah well another bear will help dull the pain.
Have started to get to the gym with a couple of work buddies, lifting weights of all things and at my age it tough I can tell ya, especially as I have never done that sort of thing, running yes, weights uh uh!
We have also been dogsitting for the past 10 days, we now have 3 greyhounds and 1 wippet, so it a damn madhouse right now - dogs everywhere, and greyhounds just like cats.... just a little bigger :)
And to keep the dogs in, we had to get one side of the hill (we live in an old quarry area) fenced in, so we bought the stuff and did this ourselves. Hard work but afterwards it looked pretty good, not bad considering this is a 110ft long and on an angle of about 35-38degrees so it steep too - many a time was had sliding down the hill while trying to ram in metal posts and wire up a mesh fence.
Anyway - hopefully next time I won't be so lax on updating the old blog - toodle pip for now...
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Phew...
It has been a while, must admit I had nearly forgot I had the blog until I had a little free time and thought hmm maybe I should write this down and then went duh!! you got a blog.
So apologies for those that keep reading and for everyone else - hey it tough sometimes and other priorities get in the way.
So me Julie is back on friday, and we gonna spend the weekend... come on now keep it clean :) getting our digital piccies organised onto the new 'puter and get some eventually uploaded and linked, this will satisfy many people ;) you know who you are.
...and speaking of time, it now February and before you know it, it will be the summer with nice long hot days, drinkies and BBQ's soon followed up by christmas, doesn't it make you think that every year is the same - hee hee - think about it... gotcha!
We gonna be snowboarding next Monday, so will have another week of aches 'n pains to nurse - ooh that might be fun :) oops... sorry, I digressed there... I want to see what I retained from my lesson at the beginning of the month, I'll let you know how we get on.
toodle pip till next time.....
So apologies for those that keep reading and for everyone else - hey it tough sometimes and other priorities get in the way.
So me Julie is back on friday, and we gonna spend the weekend... come on now keep it clean :) getting our digital piccies organised onto the new 'puter and get some eventually uploaded and linked, this will satisfy many people ;) you know who you are.
...and speaking of time, it now February and before you know it, it will be the summer with nice long hot days, drinkies and BBQ's soon followed up by christmas, doesn't it make you think that every year is the same - hee hee - think about it... gotcha!
We gonna be snowboarding next Monday, so will have another week of aches 'n pains to nurse - ooh that might be fun :) oops... sorry, I digressed there... I want to see what I retained from my lesson at the beginning of the month, I'll let you know how we get on.
toodle pip till next time.....
Friday, February 10, 2006
We're in Texas
We are in Texas for a few days, I go back to Seattle on the 14th and Julie is here till the end of the month.
We arrived yesterday and the sun was shining and you could feel the warmth in the air, very different to Seattle which was chilly and damp...
We woke this morning to find, you guessed it, it was raining (hee hee) we traveled all this way to get away from the rain and what happens - it finds us!
We are here visiting Julie's Brother and Sister-in-law and the new baby - they have a 2 year old and a new born, so Julie is doing the old ga-ga thing - nice. :)
We have the camera and wil be taking piccies and some time sooner or later I will post them, just not enough hours in the day to get stuff done, now where have I heard that one before?
We arrived yesterday and the sun was shining and you could feel the warmth in the air, very different to Seattle which was chilly and damp...
We woke this morning to find, you guessed it, it was raining (hee hee) we traveled all this way to get away from the rain and what happens - it finds us!
We are here visiting Julie's Brother and Sister-in-law and the new baby - they have a 2 year old and a new born, so Julie is doing the old ga-ga thing - nice. :)
We have the camera and wil be taking piccies and some time sooner or later I will post them, just not enough hours in the day to get stuff done, now where have I heard that one before?
Friday, February 03, 2006
Another week over....
It has been another long week full of stressing work things and a fun day in the snow :)
Yesterday went up to Stevens Pass (http://www.stevenspass.com) and we had a skiing/snowbaord day on our boss.
I can ski so thought 'hey, you've wanted to try snowboarding so why not' and snowboard I did. We had a lesson in the morning where one unlucky individual was stretchered off the hill - hmm bad omen I here ya say but luckily the poor lass was the only casualty (not including bruised ego's, bumped heads, aching limbs etc) - I know ache from head to toe literally - snowboarding all day long when it your first time, all good fun.
I'm thinking now I may invest in package deal for a board, boots and bindings and take a few more lessons - I think once I get usedto it I will like this as much as skiing.
And a continuation on the bacon butties - I found some irish back bacon in the freezer (I know it not English or Scottish but it close enough) - I forgot 'er indoors got some and we froze it - it was very tasty and with the remaining pack I made a quiche which was surprisingly good too :)
The weekends coming up and I can feel a nice, lazy, couple of days being in order so with that I'll say toodle pip for now and catch you next week.
Yesterday went up to Stevens Pass (http://www.stevenspass.com) and we had a skiing/snowbaord day on our boss.
I can ski so thought 'hey, you've wanted to try snowboarding so why not' and snowboard I did. We had a lesson in the morning where one unlucky individual was stretchered off the hill - hmm bad omen I here ya say but luckily the poor lass was the only casualty (not including bruised ego's, bumped heads, aching limbs etc) - I know ache from head to toe literally - snowboarding all day long when it your first time, all good fun.
I'm thinking now I may invest in package deal for a board, boots and bindings and take a few more lessons - I think once I get usedto it I will like this as much as skiing.
And a continuation on the bacon butties - I found some irish back bacon in the freezer (I know it not English or Scottish but it close enough) - I forgot 'er indoors got some and we froze it - it was very tasty and with the remaining pack I made a quiche which was surprisingly good too :)
The weekends coming up and I can feel a nice, lazy, couple of days being in order so with that I'll say toodle pip for now and catch you next week.
Friday, January 27, 2006
Hmmmm Bacon Baps
My buddy Roger the dodger (http://spaces.msn.com/duttonr/) has been chatting with me all week about bacon baps n butties, and for you foreign types that's a bread roll or two bread slices filled with mouth watering english back bacon... the thought just makes you droool.
Tomorrow, I'm gonna try and find some nice looking thick cut bacon and I do mean TRY, over here.. over here is in Seattle, USA it aint like back home I can tell ya.
I have seen some real streaky looking stuff great for wrapping around some nice bangers (finding great bangers here is another story similiar in vein to great bacon) but not the stuff for a great bacon buttie.
So the hunt is on to find the elusive taste and smell of frying bacon and get a taste of home - I'll let you know how I get on.
Tomorrow, I'm gonna try and find some nice looking thick cut bacon and I do mean TRY, over here.. over here is in Seattle, USA it aint like back home I can tell ya.
I have seen some real streaky looking stuff great for wrapping around some nice bangers (finding great bangers here is another story similiar in vein to great bacon) but not the stuff for a great bacon buttie.
So the hunt is on to find the elusive taste and smell of frying bacon and get a taste of home - I'll let you know how I get on.
Monday, January 23, 2006
Seattle comes alive!!
Chillin' this past weekend, doing some decorating which is always a great time to sit back and reflect on how good paint dries or wether you have sanded the same piece of cabinetry enough times.
Also this weekend it was the NFC championship game with Seattle Seahawks v Carolina Panthers, and the Hawks won!
It was a victory in a couple of ways as this win gave them the championship for the NFC but also entry into Superbowl XL (40 if you can't work it out) for the first time for Seattle in 30yrs basically ever since they have been around... the whole place has gone Superbowl crazy now, ticket prices are going up... they did start at about $1200-$1500 but now you won't get much change out of $2000+ and then flights and hotels - it gonna be a very expensive weekend when the Superbowl is on for some people.
Me, I have a 42" plasma so will quite happily sit here with a beer or three and watch it at home... Go Hawks.
p.s. Can't wait for the World Cup coverage... real foottie at last :)
Also this weekend it was the NFC championship game with Seattle Seahawks v Carolina Panthers, and the Hawks won!
It was a victory in a couple of ways as this win gave them the championship for the NFC but also entry into Superbowl XL (40 if you can't work it out) for the first time for Seattle in 30yrs basically ever since they have been around... the whole place has gone Superbowl crazy now, ticket prices are going up... they did start at about $1200-$1500 but now you won't get much change out of $2000+ and then flights and hotels - it gonna be a very expensive weekend when the Superbowl is on for some people.
Me, I have a 42" plasma so will quite happily sit here with a beer or three and watch it at home... Go Hawks.
p.s. Can't wait for the World Cup coverage... real foottie at last :)
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