April, 2006


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Apr 06

While the Cat’s away….

…..the wife will play. Lolindrath is in Chantilly, VA for the next week and a half (with the exception of this weekend). So the topic of this rant is “Why does everything happen when he is away?” For instance, we had a minor sugar ant problem in the house before he left, Tuesday morning (the first morning he isn’t there) I come downstairs to no less than 1,000 ants on the counter. Needless to say, I haven’t had coffee at home all week since they are all over the coffee maker and I can’t bring myself to clean it. Well….I think I have solved the ant problem at least temporarily. COMBAT ant traps/bait seemed to work pretty well. Other than that I guess everything is pretty minor, the car making a new noise, the dog running out of ear medicine, the grass growing at a rate 10x normal, and the stupid Verizon people telling us that someone needed to be home for the change back from Cavalier and then no one needing to be home.

The good thing about him being away is that I get to appreciate everything he usually does around the house.


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Apr 06

A Geocaching Weekend

My wife and I had an awesome geocaching weekend! First we went and hung out with the SEPAG guys in Lorimer park and then went out with some newbies (newer than us, yes, they exist) and found a couple very cool caches.

How did we not see this on the way in?!?!?!The Cat-lady Mobile

Yesterday we found five. The noteworthy ones were the Kingdom of the Feral Cats where a cat lady setup row homes (old boxes covered with carpets and blankets) for a ton of feral cats. We saw a couple cats and two deer there, it was in behind a mall in Northeast Philadelphia. The other cool one we found was the old Philadelphia Fairgrounds which is now abandoned and overgrown. It would make a really great park but I guess whoever owns it won’t let it go. Either that or the city owns it and doesn’t have the money to do anything with it.

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