there was a party on friday, a pow wow, in a teepee at marks.

it was taller than the house!

it was pretty cold that night, but inside the teepee the fire kept everyone really warm.

it was awesome, and also was in honor of sherns birthday. i can't wait to build a year round one in my backyard, so sosos ososo excited.

we did some yard work during the week and it turns out we have a miracle in our yard now.

psst..cue the weeping tree! the tourists are coming!

we also have one patch of bright yellow grass. not really sure whats up with that, but it sure is pretty.

so the goal for the rest of the weekend was to get the winnebago from pats house to ours. we hadnt really started it since october so we were expecting things to be a little dicey.

we primed the carb with some gas and it started right up! shit! drove it home through downtown without a hitch and parked it. phew.



they even match! how cute!
that done, i took monday to try and relax. explored the neighborhood and the multiple cemeterys close by.

went to evergreen, which has gone to the wild.

the woods are filled with tombstone after tombstone

the floor of the woods is checkered with sunken in graves EVERYWHERE.

i kept getting scared that a skeleton hand would come up from the earth and grab my ankle. either that or i'd just fall into an open grave, i was so busy looking around and not paying attention to where i stepped

went to the crypt, where graverobbers have broken a hole through the cinderblocked door.


a few years ago the crypt was filled with skeletons, but now theres only a scant bone or two. still, its creepy.
so i left my moped running while i snapped a couple pictars at the bottom of the hill of the cemetery, when i was done and ready to leave i got on it and hit the throttle, and it cut right off. !!!!!! the ghosts of the cemetery had filled my gas tank! eeeeeee! phew thank the goodness, it started right back up. i wholly spected to get killed.
after that near death scare, i just came home.

i got news from the shop, my subaru's engine block is cracked, i am sad. i used my sadness energy and organized some things. i mean really, the damn loyale manual just came in the mail today!

i my sadness i tried to nap with the dogs but just couldn't quite fit into the snuggle chair too.

now its just back to the work week. bummer. gotta buy a car too, ughghghghghhhh

scanner time

1999?

1997-8?



billy (right) just died. this is the only photo i have of him, but its from 1999, a cookout in my backyard.

Well, the grosstastic sewage issue at the house is fixed but I can't stop bleaching the downstairs bathtub.

Snuck back by the old apartment to take some flicks of it all empty...can't believe how different it seems.

here's the downstairs full of stuff.

here it is empty.

second floor empty

second floor full




I'll miss it, but the new house is way more fitting for us right now. Dogs and cats and bird are so happy.


The dogs love the carpeted stairs, they haul ass up and down them and try to attack you at the top of the steps. Hilarious.

They play all the time

and then sleep like logs. Its rad.

I miss the rooftop view, but I really love having a yard and starting to plan a real garden.

bad luck streak

In the last two weeks:

-closed on a house, and spent four straight days moving down the spiral stairs. thx hunter, thx ben, thx julie, thx stu, thx chad. thx also to beer and bbq.
-then spent the next two weeks after that moving every day after work
-spent three days, over 12 hours each, cleaning and repairing the old apartment(6 yrs of baked on oven grime, etc.)
-touchup paint that has matched for years no longer matched...had to repaint the entire apartment
-spent a shitton of money on supplies for the apartment fixup ($300)
-new house shower upstairs leaked and soaked the kitchen ceiling
-downstairs shower started leaking
-hot water ehater broke immeaditely upon move in, took a week of 8 minute showers before it could be repaired($112 to fix)
-water in house started backing up into the downstairs toilet and tub, can't shower, flush toilet, wash clothes
-rented a 100 ft snake ($55) and spent hours snaking the line to no avail, other than getting covered in raw sewage head to toe (and then couldn't shower, had to sink-bathe)
-on the last run of the full 100ft of snake, the claw-like end of it came free and is in our pipes somewhere. GREAT.
-checked all vents on the roof at 1:30am (andrew did, but I had to hold the ladder) in my pjs
-car is last legging it, probably head gasket. its losing coolant and oil, goodtimes.
-still no fix to downstairs shower (no time) and water/sewage is still backing up into the bathtub, waiting on county of henrico for a solution
-threw up my dinner scooping shit and toilet paper out of the bathtub (seriously, that happened.)
-friend died, wake friday and funeral saturday. friends from so long ago that the brother of the deceased was one of the few people I invited to my dads funeral. grief is hard.

i'd like to just fast forward through this month. i don't do very well with death and grieving friends, it just makes me a total wreck. it is my least favorite thing, when people close to me are sad and mourning.