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Joshua on February 24th, 2008

Apparently we have an annoying bird that visits our house early each morning. I haven’t seen him or heard him myself, but I’m now convinced that he is around. Wesley has been waking up fairly early (between 6 and 6:30) the past few weeks. I had thought it might be the light coming in his […]

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Joshua on February 13th, 2008

At the end of another nice Texas winter day (70-75F most days lately) we went to the park. We played and Wesley got tired and hot. So he sat down at the base of a tree to catch a rest and a little shade. Good idea. When we caught up to him he said “Ants!” […]

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Joshua on February 3rd, 2008

When we first moved to Austin their environmentally friendly energy program was completely subscribed, mostly by the city itself, and there was no way to buy in. Now, they’ve extended their program considerably and have no waiting list to join. So we did. It isn’t cheap, but not terribly pricey either. With the normal program […]

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Joshua on January 23rd, 2008

Along with the tiling project we’ve had a few other projects mostly electrical.  First we put in a new thermostat (thanks to my dad).  It has about a million options, but is frankly darn cool with it’s touch screen and all.  A couple of hours of fiddling through the settings and we once again had […]

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