My glasses broke over Christmas break.
Yeah, you see it. I had to fix it with superglue. That’s just about the most nerdy thing that could happen to me. At least I didn’t fix them with tape. The repair isn’t pretty, but that’s not really my fault. The superglue had sealed the nozzle of the tube shut, and I had to use a pin to poke a hole near the bottom to squeeze the glue out. To top it off, my hands were shaking from exertion, because I had just been chopping down a tree.
Yeah, you heard me. Chopping down a tree. No nerdy “I broke my glasses because I was studying too hard” here. I was swinging a big ol’ ax at a dead tree that was threatening to fall on my sister’s dog pen. The top of the tree fell off and whacked me on the head, knocking off my glasses and breaking them.
My sister’s dog pen is the latest addition to her cabin.
That’s one of her dogs, Jasper. He’s half German Shepherd and half Chow. Her other dog, Kajsa, is Jasper’s mother (the German Shepherd half). They keep Marisa safe. This summer, they bayed a couple of snakes outside Marisa’s cabin. She had to call our cousin David to come shoot them, because her BB gun wouldn’t do the job.
This is our cousin David with the .22 rifle I gave my sister for Christmas. (It’s a Mossberg 702 “Plinkster,” semiautomatic with a ten-round magazine.) She was really excited about it. I was really excited to give it to her. Now, she can shoot the snakes herself instead of calling David to come do it. Sure, David’s a great hunter and everything, but Marisa needs to be able to solve her own problems. At Nimblecat, she’s a good distance away from any of her neighbors, and I want her to be safe.
This is Marisa’s cabin. She designed and built it herself. She calls it “Nimblecat” because her cat likes to walk across the rafters under the vaulted ceiling while she cooks in the kitchen below.
This is Sihn. Sihn is the Nimble Cat. She's Egyptian; my sister picked her up on the streets of Jerusalem and brought her home with her from Israel. Sihn is a polite, but distant cat. She curled up on my lap ONCE during the week I stayed there.
Yes, I did get a digital camera for Christmas. How did you guess?
Yeah, you see it. I had to fix it with superglue. That’s just about the most nerdy thing that could happen to me. At least I didn’t fix them with tape. The repair isn’t pretty, but that’s not really my fault. The superglue had sealed the nozzle of the tube shut, and I had to use a pin to poke a hole near the bottom to squeeze the glue out. To top it off, my hands were shaking from exertion, because I had just been chopping down a tree.
Yeah, you heard me. Chopping down a tree. No nerdy “I broke my glasses because I was studying too hard” here. I was swinging a big ol’ ax at a dead tree that was threatening to fall on my sister’s dog pen. The top of the tree fell off and whacked me on the head, knocking off my glasses and breaking them.
My sister’s dog pen is the latest addition to her cabin.
That’s one of her dogs, Jasper. He’s half German Shepherd and half Chow. Her other dog, Kajsa, is Jasper’s mother (the German Shepherd half). They keep Marisa safe. This summer, they bayed a couple of snakes outside Marisa’s cabin. She had to call our cousin David to come shoot them, because her BB gun wouldn’t do the job.
This is our cousin David with the .22 rifle I gave my sister for Christmas. (It’s a Mossberg 702 “Plinkster,” semiautomatic with a ten-round magazine.) She was really excited about it. I was really excited to give it to her. Now, she can shoot the snakes herself instead of calling David to come do it. Sure, David’s a great hunter and everything, but Marisa needs to be able to solve her own problems. At Nimblecat, she’s a good distance away from any of her neighbors, and I want her to be safe.
This is Marisa’s cabin. She designed and built it herself. She calls it “Nimblecat” because her cat likes to walk across the rafters under the vaulted ceiling while she cooks in the kitchen below.
This is Sihn. Sihn is the Nimble Cat. She's Egyptian; my sister picked her up on the streets of Jerusalem and brought her home with her from Israel. Sihn is a polite, but distant cat. She curled up on my lap ONCE during the week I stayed there.
Yes, I did get a digital camera for Christmas. How did you guess?
posted by Mark at 1/03/2006 08:44:00 PM
2 Comments:
Lol! That's a hilarous blog! I can't believe you put in a picture of the dog pen! Make sure everyone knows that the cabin was designed to have a front porch that extends from just right of the door leftward to the end of the house. (Okay, so no one cares but me, but it makes a big difference in the look of the front.) Anyway, thanks for making me laugh today. You're hilarious!
Yeah! The pictures are great!! I especially like the on of Sihn with the back lighting. Keep up the good work.
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