Thursday, May 29, 2008

Mmm, Tom

I can't believe it took me this long to post this - but holy cow, I get to go see Tom Waits in concert again! When we were living in Minneapolis (in sin, prior to marriage), Tom did one of his rare tours in 1999 and we were lucky enough to get to go. It was my best concert EVER. I think I watched the whole thing with my mouth open and a goofy grin on my face, he does that to me... We only have to drive as far as St. Louis, that's not too bad. It could have been worse, it could have been Phoenix.

Here is his press conference announcing this itty bitty tour, its awsome!!!

Its just a few short weeks away, and I am so pumped. Diddly doo is also a BIG fan of the Tom, so she is going to carpool with us down there - she's more of a fun-haver then we are, so she's going to stay in the city and party while we high-tale it back here to get our dogs out of hock and continue work on the house.

Sigh....work on the house. One side is almost all the way done being painted. I remember old boss-man being teased about how long it takes to paint a house and turns out, it really does take a long time. 'specially when said house is a freaking behemoth. But what is painted looks absolutely beautiful. The front of the house project is somewhat done, we've got stairs now. We just don't have a soffit, and suddenly have a hole in our front porch floor - but I'm not going to talk about that :) Instead, I'm going to just breathe, and think of Tom....

Friday, May 23, 2008




Our friend Jeff and Franklin, after having eaten the door...
Looking closely, you can see Eleanor in the background looking for any leftover crumbs on the coffee table, and little baby Henry laying on the back of the couch.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

He is something alright

And by he, I mean Franklin. When he is naughty, he is just so sweet, its hard to be mad at him. Example - this weekend we had a couple friends over for grill. Franklin and Eleanor were on very good behavior and played well in front of our friends, no growling or barking or anything scary. (198lb-er and 145lb-er play growling can come across as scary) But when it came time to eat, we shuffled the dogs outside to the yard so we wouldn't get drool in our food. We could hear Franklin 'crying' and making sad noises that he got sent outside, but we just ignored him. That's one of the differences in those two dogs, Eleanor is content to spend hours outside enjoying the breeze, the leaves, the whatever - Franklin does his potty and then needs to come right back in to be with his people. Awwww :)

So...we were close to being done eating and about to let him inside anyway, when we heard scratching on the back door. That's weird, there is a screen door and a whole porch between Franklin and our backdoor. Not anymore, he ate the door!!

Well, to be fair, he ate most the door....enough that he was able to get it open and let himself on the porch. How funny, but how naughty. Now that's one more thing Lance has to add to his "do this summer" list.

Black kitty has already discovered the broken screen door and made a break for it. Once the weather warms up, the kitties somehow know it and start crouching by the doors. So anytime a door is opened, you need to be ready with your hand at counter level to stop them and your foot at floor level to stop them. If you forget, black kitty will dart past you meowing his way to victory. Lance was caught unprepared the other day and George made it all the way to the backyard.