The Schweitzer’s Place

We are getting a u-haul trailer and moving our goodies to New Hampshire tomorrow. Thank God the weather should be nice to us tomorrow.

Our new place is a nice little apartment. Some serious downsizing going on! But we are telling ourselves that it is preparing us for A European Lifestyle. At least it will make the trip overseas a little easier if we don’t have all the junk we have today.

Live Free or Die – our new state motto. And who knows, we might score higher than a zero on the next election….

I finally published the photos from the Tiger Cruise with the other Schweitzer Boys. This was pretty fascinating. We were allowed to ride on the Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier from Florida to Virginia.

We waited for the ship to arrive.

While I was checking the weather in an attempt to plan my day I noticed the current weather was 97 degrees in Nothrborough. The high was going to be 79. I know it is silly, but I like to capture these abnormal events….

Anyway, I guess it looks like another day of relaxation. Maybe the sun will sneak out and I can do some kayaking. Maybe I’ll just be bored all day. Too bad Deanna didn’t sleep well last night or I could play with her. I’ve already been warned this morning to leave her alone.

It rained ALL DAY yesterday and we didn’t do much. We did stop at the gym and I ran home in the rain. That was nice…thankfully it was just wet rain rather than freezing rain.

The last day or two we planted many of the seedlings that we started indoors. Today, I took off work a couple hours early and finished planting the seeds with Deanna. If all grows well, we’ll have all sorts of goodies to snack on this year. I think we’ll have a couple more plantings to fill in some gaps and tweak things a bit. But, we have a pretty good start here.

I’ve included a sketch of the garden that I hope to improve. I think I am going to give Google Sketchup a try to plot this out. But don’t wait around for that….

Now that we have our garden planted (at least mostly planted) it is going to freeze tonight. We hurried and created a make-shift cover for three of the garden beds. In the process of pounding in the stakes I smashed my hand. With our luck the sheets will blow off, ripping a plant out on the way. Then the rest of the plants will freeze and die. Well garden, it was fun while it lasted. We’ll give it another try if all gets messed up tonight. As long as we don’t get wind, it will be OK.

It was the first truly warm day in New England. When I took the car for a short trip it registered in the high 80’s. I almost felt too hot for a minute, then I remembered how much I like the warmth. It may take another day to get used to it, but I am glad spring is finally here.

We spent a good portion of the day working in the yard. This year we are building four different beds for a garden and a few pots with herbs and salsa necessities. The beds are simple square wooden border beds each 8 foot by 4 foot. We also built a compost pile with some 1/2 inch hardware cloth. It is almost full already, but that is OK.

Bailey and Brandon played in the yard all day. It was as usual — Bailey eating grass, dirt and whatever else he could find while Brandon played with a ball the WHOLE TIME. I know we will ALL sleep good tonight.

Today we posted a bunch of stuff on Freecycle and craigstlist. That is always an adventure. When you post free it seems that you created a cannonball race like event where the trucks and suburbans are involved. It is fun to watch a truck skid up to the front of the house and 8 people jump out to rummage through the treasure. I don’t know how they fit 8 people in the front of a truck or how they get anything else on the pile of junk already in the back.

At least we got rid of some more unnecessary clutter. There will be more going soon. Before you know it we’ll live in a newlywed, bachelor-pad-like house again. I can’t wait!

Comparing New England to AZ

Another Nor’easter is blasting New England today. I had to dig my car out to get to work. I’ll need to dig myself out again to leave for home and I’ll probably need to dig back in when I get home.

Ya, I probably should have just stayed home like most of the rest of the office, but I had some stuff I needed to get out. It is a little fun to drive in the snow since there are not too many other cars out.

Look at this weather report from my iGoogle home page. That snowman there is just wrong! And to think it is a smiling snowman. I am going to go home today and build a snowman, with all the snow I have to move from my driveway. Then I am going to smack it with my snow shovel. That’ll show it!

OK, so it isn’t that bad, but I did laugh when I saw a snowman on the weather page describing “heavy snow”.

I hope you Tucson folks are enjoying the day. Let me know how long your bike ride was after you soak in the sun this afternoon.

Only two more months till spring…..

We changed our website to a Wordpress site. Joomla is awesome and I still use it a lot, but Wordpress fits what we do on our personal site much better. What do you think? Now you can comment on our site :)

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This past weekend was the most beautiful I have experienced since being here in New England. The weather was perfect and the scenery was picturesque. Brad and I decided to take advantage of the weather and go for a little hike. I was excited about the idea until he said those words that I thought were of days long ago…