Ana and I have decided to do up the house with Halloween decorations and scary stuff for the trick’r treaters in the neighborhood. It should end up looking pretty cool and provide a fun evening tomorrow. Some preliminary pics can be seen here.
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Copernicus, part II
He’s been on our porch every day now, just quietly curled up on our cushions. He’s there in the morning when we leave for work and in the evening when we arrive home. After some discussion, we’ve decided to start feeding him. We’ve sort of adopted him as our “Outdoor Kitty”, to quoute Ana. When we took a bowl of food out to him tonight, he took to it very quickly and immediately started purring.
Ana’s already planning an outoor bed for him, a counter part to these.
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Awaiting the start of Game 4, hopefully the cardinals will show up to play. They’ve been very flat these past three games, it’s pretty depressing to watch. They still have a chance, but it’s probably just as big as my chance to catch a glimpse of the lunar eclipse tonight through the heavy cloudcover. Sucks indeed.
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Halloween
Ana and I are preparing for the anticipated onslaught of trick’r treaters next weekend. We have several pounds of candy, in addition to a few things we’re going to decorate the house with (which is to involve some motion sensors, scary beings, and creapy music). Should be pretty fun, I’ll take some pictures if it turns out
ok.Can’t wait for carving some pumpkins, mmmmm toasted pumpkin seeds….
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Waxing Gibbous
Right now the game is tied 7-7 in the 7th, after being down 7-2!
I was able to get a few good shots of the moon earlier: waxing gibbous and the bay known as Sinus Iridum.
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GAME 1
Here I sit, watching the player introductions for Game 1 of the 2004 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Saint Louis Cardinals. It should be one hell of a series, quite fitting that these two clubs meet for the 100th Fall Classic. My prediction is the Cardinals taking it in 6, although it wouldn’t be suprising if it goes the full 7 games.
I originally had plans tonight to go to a dinner theater at an Illinois Winery with Ana. Plans changed when the game time was announced, so Ana took her mother instead of me.
At some point during the game I have to go outside and get some pictures of the moon for my project, it’s very clear outside and the moon is in the Waxing Gibbous phase. Crossing fingers that I’ll get some good shots.
GO CARDINALS!
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Copernicus
A few weeks ago while I was outside with my telescope for a few hours I was visited by a stray cat. He was pretty curious about what I was doing and stayed around for a while.
Since monday, this cat has been hanging out on our front porch, sleeping on our chairs out there. It’s driving Dozer and Neo crazy and they frequently stand on their hind legs at the window and stare at it. Ana and I have nicknamed the cat Copernicus, for his liking of hanging around while I stargaze. I sure hope he leaves soon, I don’t want to be tempted to bring him in and give him a home, we’ve already got 2 that happily coexist!
In other news, watching the Cardinals right now try to secure a game 7. Go Cardinals!
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Sump Line… again!
As many of you may recall, we had major trouble this spring and summer getting Construx out to fix the sump line as they agreed to before us purchasing. Well we’ve got a lot of rain today. The basement is dry, but we have a small river out back going to the drain at the end of the street. About 30 seconds after I hear the sump pump going, I see a nice fountain popping up in the back yard.
I’ve gone out and discovered the pvc sump line has pulled apart a couple inches at a joint, it’s quite apparent they didn’t use any glue on the joint. I’m not sure I can describe how angry I am right now.
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Dinner and a Tour
Dave graced us with his presence this evening on his way through Springfield to St. Louis. We gave him the nickel tour of the house before heading out to Smokey Bones for a delicious and filling dinner. It got late pretty quick and he had to get back on the road. Was very nice chatting with you Dave, have a safe drive!
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