Aberrant Prose

Short takes

GSP dunking

For the first time ever since having our two German Shorthaired Pointers, Dakota fell in the pool! I am pretty sure she must have been chasing a cat, it was dark outside, she was barking her head off, she lost track of where she was… She was in and out of the pool in an instant. One moment she was barking and the next moment, totally wet head to toe, she wanted inside for refuge. With all the water near the steps she obviously had no trouble figuring out how to quickly get out.

Bug trade off

Tim, Kathy, Rylan and Aubrey are constantly catching colds, one is getting over one, another is in the middle of one or another has just caught one (you know how it is with day care and preschool). Therefore it was really no surprise when Kathy, Rylan and Aubrey came to visit last week all three of them were sick. Robert caught one of their colds the day before they left. I came down with a cold the day after they left. If we caught two different colds will we be trading colds and be sick for the next couple of weeks? No matter. Having them here is way worth the trade off.
Laptop dance

Robert has been watching and tracking and researching Apple laptops for quite a while now. Just as he was about to buy a new one (to replace mine), we were short on cash or there was the promise of new updates around the corner. With the newest update Apple made to their laptops and the 2008 tax write off opportunity coming to an end Robert decided to make a move. He came close to buying the latest 17-inch but couldn’t really warrant the extra cost of a brand new one. In the end he ordered an older model saving us 33%. We may be giving up extra hard disk storage, a rapped up trackpad, a faster drive, and higher resolution but our laptop will still come with 4 Gigs of memory, 160 Gigs of storage, a magnetic DC connector AND best of all a built-in webcam!

Boo apparel

After playing hooky from work this week to do some sewing I shipped special Halloween edition outfits off to Rylan and Aubrey today. No, not costumes—just some cute clothes made with fabric decorated in ghosts, owls, moons, pumpkins, stars and the words Happy Halloween. I had high expectations to have them completed for Kathy to take home when she was here. My clients had other ideas. At least I did have the dress far enough along to get a picture of Aubrey in it. Since Kathy and the kids left I made Aubrey a matching hat and some pantaloons to wear under the dress (sewn to a pretty yellow knit top) and I made Rylan a shirt in the same print as Aubrey's dress plus a pair of solid blue shorts. (Thank you Jean for the blue fabric from your own personal warehouse!)

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