on the road again

Been out of commission this month. I've been traveling lots for work, and dan's learning statistics! We just got back from vacation in Seattle. It was great to be home with friends and family. Things should go back to some semblance of a normal routine around here in a few more weeks

garden butcher

I had to hack down one of my hydrangeas today. It was really hard to do, because the blooms were so big and white and fluffy on my annabelle! Here's what it should have looked like. Instead, after a couple of weeks of really nice blooms, the leaves started dropping, losing the pigment and a downy white web covered everything. i can't seem to find my plant pests books to look this up, and I didn't want whatever evil garden pest this was to jump to my super happy oak leaf hydrangea right next to it. So now, my annabelle is going to be all stumpy till next season. so sad!

street art

i went for a walk in the neighborhood today to do some window shopping and i noticed these signs hanging on different doors - for several blocks in a row. random art in the neighborhood is always good!

synchronicity

I work around the corner from the place that started my career, CCNV. It was, at the time, the largest homeless shelter in the country. CCNV is an old federal building and is a city block long.

A few months after I got to town I was walking down the street with a co-worker and walked by a big building that happened to be a homeless shelter. We came upon the building from the side, so I didn’t notice what it was right away. But I got that tingly synchronicity feeling and I knew something special was right around the corner. I peeked around the corner and asked my friend what this place was. When he told me it was CCNV, I was amazed. So many years later and I’m working steps away from the place that sparked my spark, inspired me to start a career. Synchronicity! Here’s hoping DC can spark my spark once again.

initial observations on DC

-you have to keep your legs shaved and toenails painted year-round here!
-bug spray makes a wonderful summer perfume
-rats are not afraid of dc residents
-it's nice to be dry in the winter, instead of soggy like in Seattle
-But being soggy in the summer from humidity sucks so much more

new blog

we've been talking starting about a blog since we moved from Seattle to DC last summer. It's finally here! We survived the sale of our home, road trip across the country with the mutts in August and setting up a new home at the hottest point in the year here in Washington. I still have the same job that brought us here and Dan is a student again! Once I figure out how to post photos to this thing, I'll have something interesting to say.