New Digs

We have a place to live as of June 1! It's near Nick and Johanna, the 34th Street Miracle, and Falkenhan's Hardware. And the park!





We move June 1. With movers. This is no time to mess around! BBQ and Pig Roast in July.

Picture a Pig Roast Here

We are almost officially going to be the tenants of a place in Hampden.

From 3424 Keswick

I shouldn't be too surprised

With the recent increase in enormous white Crate & Barrel boxes on our porch recently, I shouldn't have been too surprised. I called C&B to check on a few items that were part of a larger order but which still hadn't arrived, a month after the first items, and it turns out they were probably stolen off our porch.

Now, C&B has insurance or FedEx has insurance (interestingly, the UPS boxes all arrived, while the FedEx ones listed no signature and were all missing), so in fact no one is out any money (and some person has some sweet free pitchers and a quiche dish!). But now all deliveries to our house are compromised, even for my roommates, who didn't do anything to deserve this.

Fortunately our kind officiant, who lives not too far away, in a house whose porches are nicely hidden by enormous hedges, offered to take delivery of the rest of our things. This deserves a mega-thank-you, but I'm also happy to have an excuse to go see him and his wife more often.

Dalmatian Performance Art/Slow Food

You know when I post these things of Kima it leads me to all these other Youtube videos. Here's an excellent performance art installation.

Kima in Booties Part Deux et Trois

Kima, if you don't know her, is one of those dogs that will suffer any number of indignities (including zero, zero indignities) with a sad face, but her chin up. "Why, why do you make it so hard?" she seems to ask. "Why do you make it so hard for me to loooooove you? All I want is to cuddle. And hunt small furry animals."

I picked up some booties for her at REI after trying out a friends' pair (see previous posting), but I don't really like them as much as the BarkNBoots (which have a ridiculous amount of Vibram sole-action). But I couldn't return them without taking advantage of the unconditional guarantee at REI, and making Kima wear them while I filmed her.

And so, without further ado, sad awkward doggie.





In other news, enjoy the shots of the house in this video - we are moving out in June! Yes, just before the wedding. Yes, with professional help. We are at the 'approved but not yet signed' stage of the process. We will keep you posted.

Two Minutes of Wisdom from Tanzania

The COMMIT project made these spots with local partner MFDI.

Dog Boot Hilarity

Poor little Kima. This video was taken by Brigid a few weeks ago during a very very rainy camping trip. It took Kima a few minutes to get used to the booties.