Categories: Daily Photo · Shutterbuggin'

At the Dirty Dog in Austin. I hadn’t been there in AGES.

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Categories: Music to My Ears · Shutterbuggin'

Topping the list as the weirdest emails I’ve ever written, was the one I wrote last night to my coworkers:
Subject: Chim Chiminy
We have a chimney sweep coming to the house at 9:00, so I’m going to be in a little late on Thurs morning.

Did you know that’s who you call when you have a block [...]

Categories: Home Sweet Home

Happy Anniversary, my Lucy Bella. One year ago, you were a dirty, scruffy, mangy little puppy in a small town shelter. I saw your picture on Petfinder and knew that you were mine. The post was for a Border Collie / Boston Terrier mix and I laughed out loud. I see where they could think [...]

Categories: Lucy Bella

Look up your birthday at Wikipedia (ex: 19 May), pick 3 events, 2 births, and a death. Via E.
Events
1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England has Mary Queen of Scots arrested.
1780 - Never-explained complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 2 pm.
1962 - A birthday [...]

Categories: R-R-Rambling

There’s a cool little watering hole in the Bull Creek Watershed in North Austin that my friend Mary introduced me to. I’ve heard that not all parts of Bull Creek are very nice, but this spot (360 N and Spicewood Springs) is a total gem. There were flat rocks for laying out, shallow [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Friend-ish · Lucy Bella

I was in my car today and thought I smelled something. It wasn’t very strong, so I turned down my radio to be sure.
er… what?
I called my sister.
“Does that ever happen to you? Your senses get mixed up?”
I guess I figured it was something only a sibling would understand. She [...]

Categories: R-R-Rambling · The Fam

flash mob
(FLASH mawb) n.
A large group of people who gather in a usually predetermined location, perform some brief action, and then quickly disperse.
I’ve seen flashmob stories scattered around the internet before, but this week was the first time I’d seen a post about actually participating. Via Austinist:
“We aren’t saying, we’re just sayin’ that this [...]

Categories: Austin-ish