Tater has one cousin (dog), Curbie, and another cousin (human) on the way. Dan's mom loves both her granddogs equally, and she has longed for a photo of the two of them to put in some dog frame she has. Curbie and his owners, Ben and Annie, were at our house last Friday to celebrate Ben's birthday. Jean asked if I would try and get a picture of the two of them together. Eventually Dan wrangled the dogs, and we got a great one:
But there was a lot of trial and error up until that point.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
All Dogs.
Monday, November 16, 2009
The Business of Raking Leaves.
Dan has been calling me funny a lot lately, and I was thinking that meant I am getting really good at saying universally hilarious things, but then I realized it probably just means that I have honed my ability to make Dan laugh. I am okay with that.
Also, we spent 4+ hours raking and bagging leaves a weekend or two ago and already our yard is as if we'd never lifted a finger. Oh, fall. Oh, oak tree. Oh, being from Florida and the not-knowing that had thentofore accompanied me.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
hahaHalloween.
Last night Lacy and Justin came over for sort of a last minute double date game night. We played Scattergories and Taboo. I think everyone's favorite part of the night was when, on a crucial Taboo turn of Dan's and mine, Tater randomly started peeing on his bed. Tater is not a house wetter, so I can only think to blame it on foul play. I don't know how they did it, but it's obviously Lacy or Justin's fault. We ended up losing Taboo. A shallow victory for our sneaky opponents, I'm sure (just kidding, everyone knows Lacy's the Taboo master).
Right now someone's mad at someone else at work. If this holds out, it will create the exact circumstances in which I completed my job at the Osceola School District's Maintenance Department in Florida, and won't that be pleasant? Though I don't foresee Calvary hosting any awkward goodbye lunches for me at Olive Garden. Not that it usually affects me much. I have always been the young one who sits away from everyone else. If ever I have a job again, I will have to be an adult at it. I am not so young anymore.
I have meant to post about Halloween, but I am just getting to it now. We joined Bonnie and four of her international students for a day of King's Island, and we had such a time. No lines at all in the morning, and I think the longest we waited in the afternoon was 30 minutes. Amusement park enjoyment is inversely proportional to line size and wait time. It was loads of fun. Plus, they have two newer coasters that were really top notch. Good for you King's Island.
After dinner at Red Robin, we went home and scrambled to get our outfits together so we could go to our show at Corner Bloc Coffee in costume. Red Robin ended up being a strategic dinner choice.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Taking Pictures.
Dan and I spent a chunk of our Sunday going into the field at the dead end of our street and taking pictures for our Christmas card and also for our band. I will have outtakes of some of those. It turns out that we are prize failures at taking those jumping pictures. We brought Tater along since he is on our Christmas card, and he was very well behaved. At one point a man was walking his dogs at the far end of the field and Tater ran toward them and then his leash snapped off, and, instead of continuing to run, he stopped when we called him because he could tell something wasn't right about that much freedom. His leash is fine, we just accidentally clipped it around his tag instead of the leash loop. Oops.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Drive-In.
I have had pictures of the drive-in for almost two full weeks by now. Work has been busy, but also, I have been getting websites together for the Bell & the Hammer, so that has been taking up all my extra time usually reserved for posting pictures of the drive-in. Luckily (false, unluckily) the phone never stops ringing, so I will just post pictures and caption.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Oh, No Big Deal.
I'm sitting here at work, drinking my afternoon tea on this October 15th (I was tempted to say, "I'm sat here", which is a British thing to say, and I am drinking tea, which is a British thing to drink, but I'm afraid it would seem incredibly pretentious, and I am not Gwyneth Paltrow or a crazy Britney Spears, nor am I even listening to Harry Potters anymore which always left British accent residue on my brain directly afterward). It is an ordinary day but for the influx of callers during our busy season, oh, yes, and but for the fact that Dan and I have finally released some music into the virtual and even non-virtual world! It is exciting, to be sure! As of noon today, we, the Bell & the Hammer, are the official purveyors/promulgators of To (Set Things Right) EP 1 (of 4), which includes three of the twelve songs on the album we are working toward (to be released in January of 2010). We did our social networking blitz early this afternoon. I have said before that we are recording in increments and at intervals, three songs a month for four months, and we are going to sell the songs as we go along.
If you are feelin' (read: fillin') what we're shillin', you can buy it in two different ways. You can either collect the songs in EP sets, purchasing them as they become available, or you can pre-order the entire album and get bonus goodies. We have noted all this in detail on our website, and you can find the purchase links there, but I will also put them here for you, because I am just that kind of gal.
Click above to download just the EP.
Click above to pre-order the album.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Working On It.
Dan and I are working toward this album goal. If we never write or record songs beyond the twelve we aim to put together at this time of our lives, the completion of this project will be enough for us. We have been trying to record for years, but we are definitely most equipped to do it now. We are recording three songs a month for the next four months, and Dan's cooked up a nice release/pre-order/download deal that, I guess, we will declare officially (in all its interwebular officialness) tomorrow. We spent some time last month working on our album cover(s). It was fun. There are buttons. I hope you like it when it comes out tomorrow.
I have a tin full of buttons. They figure in prominently.
Dan in flannels.
Knitted letters.
We even worked some knitting needles in.
And this here acorn from our front yard.
Tater felt neglected, only because he so often experiences the extreme opposite.
Buttons.
Babe.
Hoo-rah!
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