A Post- Finally!!!

Ok, so we've had this blog forever but have never posted to it. I know, we're lame. We've both decided that the least we could do is post pictures of the dogs-then maybe you'd believe how boring we are.

Lately this hasn't been entirely true. We have had a couple of activities to break up the usual routine. Three weeks ago we went up to Philadelphia and saw the King Tut exhibit that was in town. We made it a day trip by train (I am totally in love with train travel now). I have to say that the museum did a great job presenting everything. The displays and the audio tour were very well done. We had a great time.

Then two weeks ago we went to the Maryland Renaissance Festival.

This is the second year we've gone, both times with friends from work. We had a great time eating steak-on-a-stake and watching all of the different shows. Almost as entertaining is watching the other patrons of the festival in their interesting costumes.

Here we see Scott (in the kilt) playing the role of "mankind" in the story of Pandora's Box. It was quite entertaining, especially since he couldn't do anything about the fact that his wife and I were snapping picture after picture of the whole thing. Ha ha! He was a good sport about it though, and too good at the caveman grunting noise he had to make (yes, it was a speaking part of sorts :-) ).

Other out of the house activities are in the future...we'll be taking the dogs to a Beagle Dog Day event (I'm not quite sure, but I think it's just a giant doggie playground) where our 2 beagles can meet a bunch of others from around the area. After that there is a BBQ hosted by one of our county residents that Jared has befriended. I'll let him post about how he came to know this lady later on.

We've had a few projects at home that have occupied quite a lot of our time. I think we bit off more than we could chew when we decided to tear out the carpet upstairs and put down wood flooring. It isn't that the job is hard, just very time consuming when you aren't a professional installer, are working on it only on the weekend (sometimes), and have to shuffle all of your belongings from room to room.

When we get tired of the floors we look to the yard for a distraction, and living in the country there are plenty of them.

Our backyard has been a bit of a project. We were out there this weekend pulling up the big, obvious weeds-trying desperately to keep the forest from reclaiming it. It's not as hideous as it once was, so I consider that progress.

Well, that's it for now. We've really enjoyed reading everybody else's blogs, so we hope you all will enjoy ours too...if we can keep it up ;-)