new pics!

I have put the pictures of the house up on my flickr site, and some pics from the baby shower last weekend. http://www.flickr.com/photos/butterflypalacedispatch/

I tried to put them into sets, but it may or may not have worked, sorry. I'll get around to re-editing them eventually. For now, just scroll through the photostream.

Yesterday I took my mom off to the airport for her trip back home to Minneapolis - sorry to see her go! She worked her butt off to help me get ready for the baby. I wished we had more time to do more fun stuff, but it was really hot, and we had a lot of work to do - which we completely accomplished! She'll be back in August to visit us with the baby on the outside.

After her visit, I went to Denise's Tie Dye party. I took a bunch of white onesies we got, and dyed them all. It was hard work! Maybe I'll even have pictures up later, after I rinse them out and wash them. After the artwork, we ate really scrumptious tomato pie, hummus, and cookies, and swam in their pool. The swimming realy made my day, as always.

Today I get to enjoy my house and catch up on a few odds and ends. Not much going on, but I wanted to let you know about the pictures. It's really hot - I'm hiding out inside today.

Hooray for Technology

Team Savvas is experiencing a sweeping, mass upgrade in technology! Add one new digital camera (early christmas present for the wifey) and one new computer (supa fast and large-screen enhanced) and one halloween party (cavers and ancillary Ian-and-Jessica-got-married party)and that means new pictures for the blog! And new photos on Flickr, too, so check out My Photos at the link to the left.
We've had beautiful weather, much cooler... and all the critters have gone into hiding or slowed down considerably. I had to poke at a grasshopper twice today to get it to hop. We had a small spell of rain, but it is very dry. Caldwell county has had a fire (small, eventually contained) once a day for the last several. The grass and the trees are all turning brown and leaves are crumbling to the ground. There is barely anything blooming except for some fleabane-looking flowers. The ground is hard as a rock. Luckily we were able to get the internet cable moved, and the lines for the propane to the kitchen in the ground before it got too hard to dig. I really enjoyed using the pickaxe for that. Most of my time lately has gone to setting up the new confuser and I have recently excavated my sewing machine from storage to put it to good use. I made all of Charley's "leather" accessories for his 300 costume! I have a few other Solstice gifty projects going, and have all but forgotten my embroidery by the wayside. All in good time... Well, enjoy the pictures! I can promise more blog entries in the near future with the ease of use of the new machinery (and, I've been handing out my new moo.com minicards with my blog address on it, so I am feeling the prods of the masses... er, of the few)