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Joshua on October 1st, 2007

We headed to downtown Austin this weekend to enjoy the Old Pecan Street Festival. It is your standard arts and crafts/junk you don’t need festival. Lots of metal work, paintings, photos, weird stuff that you wondered why people would buy etc. Only two booths of pottery. That is kind of a change from the Anacortes […]

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Joshua on September 10th, 2007

I rode my bike to work today. And now for the big news, I rode it back home too. I’ve ridden to before, but Amber has always come and gotten me. It helps assuage her guilt about me riding while she drives places.   Not that she should feel the least bit guilty.  The ride is […]

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Joshua on September 10th, 2007

I finally got the ducting in the attic replaced.  Took a long, long time. I am more flexible and patient than I would have imagined.  Think hot yoga with jeans, knee pads, nails above your head, a respirator and lots of insulation all over you.  When I say hot, I mean 10 minutes and your […]

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Joshua on August 31st, 2007

The mosquitos in our backyard are simply terrible.  They are fast, aggressive and plentiful.  The neighbors say they haven’t ever seen them so bad.   I suppose it is because of all the rain we had this year.  The mosquitos are different than the ones back home.  Unlike most things in Texas, they aren’t larger.  They […]

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