Month: March 2008

Another hard day at the office. Here’s our team at the annual RTP engineering bowling afternoon.  I scored a sorry  89, a mediocre 134, and a respectable 176.

(L-R) Keith, Gary, Fred, Greg

I spotted this car on the I40 on my way home the other day. The plate reads

"$CD /PUB"

I tried to take a photo of it with my phone , which probably wasn’t the best idea ever.

This is what we did this weekend, so far. On Friday I went to Bouncing Bulldogs all day because it was a teacher workday and Coach says I am going to join the team in the Fall but unfortunately training is at 6am. Tomorrow (Mon 24th) I am going to Bouncing Bulldogs 8-12, and on Tues, Wed, Thurs and Fri because I’m on Spring Break from school, so by the end of the week I’ll be even better at jump rope.
Yesterday we went to Weaver Street Market, it’s a supermarket and a cafe in the next town (Ruth edit: organic, green, co-operative type affair beloved of hippies and hula hoopers – home of the peanut butter machine, and Gary’s favourite supermarket – he’s considering joining the co-operative)

Today (Easter Sunday) me and my Dad went on an easter egg hunt around our house. Mum told us where to start, and we had to read the clue on the piece of paper that we found. With each clue there was an easter egg. The eggs had either m&m’s, Quality Street, or Cadbury Mini Eggs.

In the pictures below you can see us in our pajamas looking for clues in the postbox at the bottom of our drive. It was still pretty early!

Click on the speach bubble to see our captions.

Gary and I had been independently reading about folk over the interweb that had been choosing to turn off the TV, stereo and more importantly their computers once a week to interact perhaps more wholesomely with their family and friends. We procrastinated less than usual and decided to give it a go. The first week was unplanned and as such, less fun than we hoped.

This is what we chose to do on our second week of this social experiment, Erin chose this experiment from a book our good friends the King family gave to her.

I advise you to try a power off day, but encourage you to plan ahead of time what you might do together, it works better for our family or procrastinators that way anyway.

Today we watched the tarheels win the ACC basketball tournament. Tarheels is our team in Chapel Hill. We’ve been to see loads of games but unfortunately the college basketball season is nearly over.

After the game we went down to the park for Erin to practice doing monkey bars and Erin is now learning how to try and do monkey bars backwards. We took 114 photos in an hour at the park.

We found a hole what we thought looked like nest and we pretended that we were laying a soccer ball for an egg. We thought it was pretty funny, but perhaps you had to be there!

After that, we came home and played nerf-tag. Which is a game where two players can play and you have to wear this jacket and goggles so you don’t get hit because it hurts when you get hit.

Posted by Erin.

There’s this grocery store down the road from us that always reminds me of Brighton whenever we go shopping there. It has that pseudo hippy vibe that I like, the nice middle class sort, not the dirty crusty thieving type of course. Anyway they have this awsome machine that makes peanutbutter right before your eyes. There’s a hopper full of peanuts, and you can just pick up a little tub, flip the switch and out comes peanutbutter Mmmmm.

I’ve been craving the taste of Ringwood Fortyniner, perhaps because it’s started to warm up here. I emailed the brewery, and unfortunately they don’t export BUT there is a US brewery that makes “Old Thumper” under license.