Deer

Murrysville is what is called a rural residential community. What that means is no sidewalks and very few streetlights (except on the main drags). It also means that we often have wildlife in our yard -- turkeys, deer, many types of birds; I'm sure that possums and raccoons are around, too, but we don't see them too often.

Lately we've been visited by an old Grandpa Buck -- just one spindly looking antler, gray muzzle. It will hang out under our apple tree and eat the apples on the ground. This morning there was a beautiful big doe visiting the apple tree. We watched her for about a minute, then she took off running... followed by a perfect 8 point buck from out of the pine trees.

Abbie IV's Fall Classes

COLT0810s1 Comparative Literature: Arthurian Legend
CSCI0170 Computer Science: Functional Programming
COGS1380 Cognitive Science: Ecological Approach to Perception and Action
NEUR0010 Neuroscience: Introduction to Neuroscience

She's still working at BUDS and VENLAB. And is an officer (I can't remember which position, social chair, I think) at Tech House.

Windowsill Finale

The windowsill work from the summer was finished sometime in August. Well, it's primed; I'll get around to painting this weekend. For a pretty scary, badly damaged repair project, it turned out okay. Once everything set and dried long enough that I was confident it was as set and dried as it was going to get, I sanded it as smooth as my patience allowed then primed. So far, nothing as shrunken down or pulled away from the rest of the window, nothing has cracked or bulged and everything feels solid. So I'm happy. And even though it clearly looks repaired, it looks a heckuva lot better than it did.

The Easy Way

So rather than update Transcriptions and lose "many of my recent posts", I decided to just start a new one. We'll see if this really will be the easier way.