One of the favorite parts of my day is early morning, be it weekday or weekend I’m usually up between 5 and 6 AM. Don’t get me wrong, there are a FEW days I’ll sleep in until 7 or 8 but those are the exception, certainly not the rule.
I especially like Spring, Summer and Fall mornings – getting the dogs out and fed then fixing my morning cup of coffee and sitting on the back deck listening to the morning’s music. It’s amazing just how loud the birds all are – it’s really interesting to hear all the different songs going at the same time. Then there’s the deep melody of the wind chimes coming into play; the whistle of the train in the distance; even the “white noise” of the traffic on I-85 seems to play into the morning melody.
It’s almost like listening to the world coming alive as the sun rises.
It’s like those Verizon commercials with the creepy folks saying, “It’s a dead zone” *squinty eyes*
I’m not sure if it’s just folks not being able to afford their houses or if they are just leaving the ‘burg. The folks across the street had maintained a condo in Richmond for many years and finally said they needed to have one household so they sold the Petersburg house. The house next door to us has been vacant since the young lady that owned it got killed in a motorcycle accident in October 2007 and her parents figured they would just let the bank repo the house. (Kudos to us for maintaining two yards!) Not sure what the story is with the folks diagonally across from us, they sort of keep to themselves and Cheryl (behind us) and her husband are an older couple – figure they just don’t need that much house (3100+ square feet) for just the two of them.
Sooooo I doubt it is us – no, really, we’re pretty cool neighbors.
Actually, it’s BOTH - that’s right! Today is Valentine’s DayAND it’s Keith’s 51st birthday! For his birthday, I got him 3 David Austin ‘Jude the Obscure‘ roses – which REALLY do smell like guava – I have NO idea how that happens but, they really, truly do smell like a lush tropical fruit. I also got him some new Green Pans which are sooooooooo freaking amazing!
Well, it wasn’t quite the blizzard that my uncle has been having in Halifax BUT we did get a wee bit o’ snow this morning!
Snow from back deck at 6:30 AM
Snow on my Passat!
It was actually enough to have several schools opening 2 hours late but, then again, this is Virginia….we panic when it rains hard, let alone a little snow. As much as I hated dealing with the snow in Syracuse, I really would LOVE to have one REALLY, big snowstorm….at least 1 per year….that isn’t asking too much is it?
…to hold me down. To make me laugh, to make me frown – or to keep me tethered to a cable modem. I previously had a little Belkin G wireless router to try to share the high speed goodness of Comcast throughout the rest of the house and to my laptop upstairs. I would frequently have issues with the number of bars and was never able to take my laptop outside on really nice days – as of today (about 30 minutes ago actually) that has ALL CHANGED!
By now, if you are not living under a rock, everyone knows that Circuit City is going out of business (I bet Best Buy is LOVING IT!) and today we stopped in to see what they had on sale. I had been checking out more powerful wireless routers – I’m kinda partial to Belkin – I guess because they’ve seemed so easy to work with so I had been looking at their N and N+ routers. I was leaning toward the N+ because it has a USB port so that I could plug in my external hard drive and it has gigabit Ethernet ports. Circuit City had the N+ on sale – regularly $119.00 with 20% off which ended up being about $95 – I’ll take the $25 thankyouverymuch! Maybe I’ll give the G one to someone on the Petersburg Freecycle website….I already gave my parents an old Netgear router I had when I set up their network. Hmmm maybe my aunt might need/want one – I’ll have to check.
This one seemed to take a bit longer to set up than the G originally did BUT after getting it all up and running, I took a tour of the yard with my laptop and was able to get a full 5 bars ANYWHERE in my house OR out in the yard. This is gonna be so great in summer when I can sit out on the back deck or on the back patio and surf, game, or blog. YAY TECHNOLOGY!!
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