wow weekend!

So, the ultimately unfair fact of the matter is that I get to go hang out in B-town for the weekend as my little brother is all grown up and graduating from HS and I left J a list of house work, whoops! :-) All is fair in love and home ownership? Right, I think someone said that...

Anyway, I hope to do a more formal holiday weekend update but it will have to wait.. ALSO, I'm working on moving my blog, so hang tight for some changes!

Paper Culture, an updated look for greeting cards...

Making my merry away through my Google Reader this morning, I stumbled on these fresh and beautiful greeting cards from a new company, Paper Culture. I'm excited to see more from them, here is a sampling to pique your interests..

the perfect distraction...

Apparently my mom knows my weaknesses for creatures of any kind because yesterday she sent me a link to a live webstream of an eagle's nest. wow. There went my productivity.

I immediately tweeted it on twitter and have since had the greatest amount of retweets or RTs that I have had to date using the micro-blogging software. (This is a good thing, feel free to clap.) I also spent some time watching how many viewers were following the neat live stream. When I first visited yestrday morning, there were approximately 440 viewers, between 12 and 1pm, the feed piqued at 1,200 viewers! This morning, as of 9:12am there are 557 viewers, I think the eagle's are gaining popularity!

I felt the need to write about this because I think the fact that scientists/researchers are using web technologies for studying/viewing purposes is awesome! I only wish the CBC site had some kind of posting functionality so that experts could pose reasons for some of the eagle behaviors. IE the different calls, the reason why the 3 small ones seem to be 3 different sizes, etc. I took a few pictures over my short observing timespan and JUST MISSED a picture with both mom and pops (I was sorely disappointed.)

Mostly I just enjoy hearing the sounds of the woods while sitting inside and working. It's very soothing and I'm excited to keep checking in as the little guys grow.

Watch out, she's watching you!












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UPDATE! Got one! Mom and Pop Bald Eagle :-)

Graduation Invitation

Just posting the invite I made for J's graduation. Exciting, at the new house and everything. :-) Only a few days left... lots of prep still in the works!

New Carpet!

New Carpet!
Originally uploaded by lynndro

YAY! Holy progress! As J said, "this has been a huge payoff weekend." The picture here is as of Monday, 4/27. Carpet was installed this morning. I haven't seen it in person yet but I'm so excited that I can hardly stand it. Although... the colors don't look right at all in this photo (IE the back wall is orange).

This weekend could not have been completed without the help of Adam and Megan, (you guys rock)! Because of their time and effort we were able to paint AND prime the whole house! We were just hoping to get through priming and hopefully have the loft painted. It's exciting to see the place really come together like this.

I've posted pictures on Flickr but I'm going to take some more because I don't feel like they are a good representation of the HUGE success!