The building across from ours was completely burned on one end. The building across from ours burned down when we lived at the beloved J347 in Anchorage. Is it just the shady places I live, or do apartments burn down on a routine basis? Or maybe some dyslexic, sinister mastermind is intent on burning my house down, but can't get the unit number right. Just to be safe, I'm going to move into brick house next time.
our house is on fire
9.28.2010
When Chelsea and I came home from work earlier this week, we saw the channel 2 news vans in our apartment's parking lot. Last time this happend, it was becuase one of our neighbors (a friendly asian gentleman) had strangled his wife to death in a domestic dispute the night before. So naturally, we were curious to see what had happened this time. As we rounded the corner to our parking space, we saw what the fuss was all about:
The building across from ours was completely burned on one end. The building across from ours burned down when we lived at the beloved J347 in Anchorage. Is it just the shady places I live, or do apartments burn down on a routine basis? Or maybe some dyslexic, sinister mastermind is intent on burning my house down, but can't get the unit number right. Just to be safe, I'm going to move into brick house next time.
The building across from ours was completely burned on one end. The building across from ours burned down when we lived at the beloved J347 in Anchorage. Is it just the shady places I live, or do apartments burn down on a routine basis? Or maybe some dyslexic, sinister mastermind is intent on burning my house down, but can't get the unit number right. Just to be safe, I'm going to move into brick house next time.
Fresh socks and bumper stickers
9.19.2010
We made a quick jaunt to Oregon over the weekend. We took a leisurely afternoon hike to Blue Lake with Denver's parents, ate piles of pancakes, drank lots of coffee and tea with my parents, gathered eggs with Kayce and Garret, successfully leased the house for another year, and planned a winter ski trip with Jocelyn. Not all weekends can be perfect however and sadly enough the duffel that we had our clothes in was somehow left sitting in the middle of our apartment floor. Meaning we spent the weekend only in the clothes we were wearing when we left Reno and whatever articles of clothing we could nab from our unsuspecting relatives. We're still a little dumfounded that we could actually step over the duffel to get out the door and still leave it behind.
Here is Denver in his father's fleece dreaming of all the freshly laundered socks he had placed in the duffel the night before.
On an unrelated topic, regarding natural childbirth, I saw a bumper sticker one time that read "Midwives help people out."
Here is Denver in his father's fleece dreaming of all the freshly laundered socks he had placed in the duffel the night before.On an unrelated topic, regarding natural childbirth, I saw a bumper sticker one time that read "Midwives help people out."
The Great Reno Balloon Race
9.14.2010
The main event for the weekend was the title attraction, the Great Reno Balloon Race. The gist of it is that about a hundred eccentric old guys get in wicker baskets early in the morning, and float around for a while under big, colorful hot air balloons. The "race" part consists of hoping your balloon floats over one of several large X's painted on the grass in several football fields around the city, at which point you would toss out a beanbag that has your number on it. The Great Reno Balloon Beanbag Toss just didn't sound exciting enough last year, hence the new moniker no doubt aimed at attracting the adrenalin set.
The Dawn Patrol
Proffesor Muldoon's Balloon getting launched
Giant multicolored mushrooms
the blog is back.
9.10.2010
Well it's been over two years since I taught you all the proper way to grow facial hair. And now we - Chelsea and myself - have decided to reinstate the online publication of our most secret thoughts.
So here is the inaugural post of a new era. It is going to be a quick recap of the last two years of adventures and life.
As you well know, we moved from Alaska in June 2008, and went back to Chelsea's hometown of Chiloquin, OR. We bought a house, and quit blogging. We skied Crater Lake in the winter, and climbed Smith Rocks in the summer, and tried, more or less unsuccessfully, to find a good place to mountain bike.
Then, in February 2010, we moved again. This time we landed in the northern foothills of the Eastern Sierra, Reno, NV. I think I like it here. Reno is a really weird city, but it has a Whole Foods, so Chelsea is happy, and we have no money. We took a Trad climbing class with Alpine Ascents International, and that opened up a whole new world of possibilities to us. (If this is to deep and private for anyone, feel free to take a break, get some coffee, whatever). We kicked off the climbing season with a trip to Joshua Tree with Dani and Adam to use our new skills. We have had the campingest summer yet, spending at least two nights a week in sleeping bags since May 22, climbing almost every weekend. It was a good summer.
Ok, that brings us up to the present, hopefully this blogging streak will last longer than my ill-fated how-to phase.
P.S. If you want to read something more intriguing than this, Chelsea is going to author posts about home decorating, nutritious food, natural childbirth, and other topics of more general interest.
So here is the inaugural post of a new era. It is going to be a quick recap of the last two years of adventures and life.
As you well know, we moved from Alaska in June 2008, and went back to Chelsea's hometown of Chiloquin, OR. We bought a house, and quit blogging. We skied Crater Lake in the winter, and climbed Smith Rocks in the summer, and tried, more or less unsuccessfully, to find a good place to mountain bike.
Then, in February 2010, we moved again. This time we landed in the northern foothills of the Eastern Sierra, Reno, NV. I think I like it here. Reno is a really weird city, but it has a Whole Foods, so Chelsea is happy, and we have no money. We took a Trad climbing class with Alpine Ascents International, and that opened up a whole new world of possibilities to us. (If this is to deep and private for anyone, feel free to take a break, get some coffee, whatever). We kicked off the climbing season with a trip to Joshua Tree with Dani and Adam to use our new skills. We have had the campingest summer yet, spending at least two nights a week in sleeping bags since May 22, climbing almost every weekend. It was a good summer.
Ok, that brings us up to the present, hopefully this blogging streak will last longer than my ill-fated how-to phase.
P.S. If you want to read something more intriguing than this, Chelsea is going to author posts about home decorating, nutritious food, natural childbirth, and other topics of more general interest.
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