Date Afternoon:

This afternoon The Mike got off work a bit early, and we wandered over to Pismo. The weather was absolutely PERFECT. No fog, warm (for Pismo) and a minimum of tourists.

I took a metric butt-load of pictures. I'll get them up tomorrow. Today was all about the hang'n out and enjoying ourselves.

Here's one of the many photos to tide y'all over until later:

What an awesome day.

Catch you cats later.

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Quick update -

I'm around, but it's a tad bit busy 'round these parts.

At the moment (9:30pm) I have an electrician and a flooring guy in my kitchen. We're having electrical problems, which means I still don't have a stove/oven (yet!)

Lots of stuff has been put away, and it's really looking like "our" house.

The cats are pretty comfy now, and wait until you see the pictures I've taken of them. LAZY! Lounging around and doing a whole lot of nothing. This is why friends have told me that if there is such a thing as reincarnation, they want to come back as one of my pets. It's a cush life, lemme tell ya.

I'm off to sit in the corner and knit while these guys do their thing.

Tomorrow I'll get some pictures thrown up here.

Room With a View:

This could get addicting! Here are the scenes from my dining room window for the last few days - taken at different times. The light fog burns off around 11am and it stays clear and warm until sunset.

July 25, 2008

12:45 pm

July 27, 2008
5:15 pm

July 28, 2008
10:15 am

July 29, 2008
8:30 am

July 29, 2008
8:30 am
Zoomed

Josie Pau Pau (aka Poops) relaxing in the craft room

Blue (aka Boo Baby) rudely interrupted from her nap!

I'm off to make another large dent in the moving boxes. I also need to go buy some coffee and flavored creamer, now that I've finally unearthed the coffee pot!

Tonight is the weekly SLO knitting group meetup (Starbucks in the Marigold Center at Tank Farm Road and Broad Street) and while I'm excited, I'm a bit nervous to be meeting strangers. I'll let'cha know how it goes.

A Beautiful Day:

Today (Sunday) was absolutely perfect in every way.

The weather was just this side of hot, due to the cool breeze blowing through every open window here.

I unpacked three good-sized boxes and then lounged alongside the cats hanging out on the furniture.

Knitting was done (and the realization that my rug is not near enough completed), and loafing was done and enjoying the great outdoors was done.

All in all, a most perfect day weather-wise and life-wise.

Tomorrow is another hustle/bustle flurry of activity day for me whilest The Mike slays the dragon for us.

Pictures - In No Particular Order:

Apologies at the forefront for crappy pics - I didn't bother editing or cleaning up outside of making the super dark ones a tad lighter.

Driveway
Driveway facing house
Front Door
Still Cleaning
Back Patio heading towards front of house
Back Slider (Madden)
Lots left to do

Back yard segregated
Lawn side of back yard

Smack Dab in the center is Shadow
That black box on Scilly's collar is the best $80 I've EVER spent!

No More Non-Stop Barking!!

Did I tell y'all we have a huge berry bush in the back yard?
We do . . . and it's HUGE.
Whatever that fruit is, we have two good-sized threes that grow them
Actually, one of the trees is filthy with them

1/8th the crap originally piled up there

Shadow already ruling the roost

The kitchen, coming in from the garage
Going from kitchen to garage
Leaving kitchen and entering garage
Door from garage to back patio
Back patio view of slider into living room
From the front entry looking through dining room into living room
From the slider into our living room
From the living room into the dining room

That "picture" on the wall straight ahead? That's my frigg'n view!

AWESOME

From dining room into kitchen

The "craft" room (and there's my new sewing machine on the right!)

The closet in my craft room - it came like this - SCORE!

Plenty of storage space and spreading out room

Dining room from the hallway

Front Door

Our bedroom

Down the hallway, from the back part of the house towards the living room

This is your room. It'll be clean soon, I promise!

Here's your bathroom - ditto on the "clean soon" part

CRAFT ROOM EXTRAORDINAIRE!

Dining room window view

Look closer . . . isn't it a lovely view?

Still our bedroom

This was taken the very first night. All we wanted to do was get the bed made and climb in!

Your room the first night we stayed there

Avila on Friday afternoon, looking towards Pismo Beach

You can always find Pismo Beach by the standard wall of fog either coming in or going out

The street in front of our house

Our house from the street

SQUIRRELLLLLLLL

Dude had a berry stashed in the rocks at the water

He was chowing down and loving it

Seriously. A squirrel with a berry. At the shoreline. Go figure.

More of Avila on Friday afternoon

View from by BIL's bedroom deck in Pismo Beach, looking towards Oceano

Boosinger Park

Looking down Wadsworth towards Junkins (I went to rival Paulding, so we always refer to Judkins Jr. High as JunKins)

BIL's front door view of Pismo. THIS is the place to watch fireworks off the pier!

There y'all go - pictures galore!

(P.S. I did have my dental appt last Thursday, and then I had my bothersome (wisdom) tooth pulled Friday at seven in the freak'n morning! My mouth is still pretty sore from the three lidocaine (sp?) shots and from the gaping hole remaining, but once that pain is gone I'm free and clear and ready to dance around my house.)