Finally... Something to wear around the apartment... For those of you who want to know why I am married to Megan; this is your answer. For those of you who want to know why Megan married me; get in line...
Oh no! Now she's getting into line...
Short and sweet this week. Had a three days off of work and now have about six days worth of work to catch up on... So it goes... Xmas was good. Got spoiled rotten. Plenty of sweaters. A snowbrush came just in the nick of time. Played lots of Wii. Now reading Adam Smith's Weath of Nations. Hope everyone had a great holiday and see you after new years!
Megan and I went to the Mushroom House for a holiday party thrown by The Children's Agenda. Stolen pic from wikipedia. More on the house at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_House
Another stolen pic. But, the house is for sale for only $799,900. Price reduced $300,100 since October.
What it looked like in the dark when I rolled up after work...
The mosaic fireplace
Now that's a bathroom
The hallway connecting the "pods." So, if you needed to have something repaired, who would you call; a hobbit?
Tree support
Here's a bedroom. Now, this house has to come with the furniture because you would never be able to buy furniture for this place because there are no 90 degree angles and the furniture could never fit into another house that isn't a mushroom.
Fountain in the livingroom
Back to the fireplace
This is in the "lounge pod." This is a giant cherry wood sculpture thing.
The Hobbit entrance. It was a crazy house. I left having way more questions than I had going into it. Questions about plumbing, heating, and other maintenance.
Thanks to Julie, I have some new paperwork for my projects...
This is Louise. She looks freaked out because she is freaked out. You would be too if you sat on a desk that has a nerf missile launcher on it.
Cat playing with the mouse
Cat in the box
I think she's trying to escape by using FedEX
After a long day, it's time to crash on my paperwork.
That's it until xmas. So, hope everyone has a good one.
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Pete at the JCPenney in "the mall" of Batavia, NY waiting to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One. Word...
Sarah, Megan, and Pete in playing with knit hats at JCPenney since we got to the theatre really, really early. Megan and I are use to getting tickets really early for Harry Potter IMAX in Chicago, which you have to fight for. Batavia is not Chicago...
I had to join in with my frog hat.
Megan and Sarah squealing about the snowmen in the rest of "the mall."
The Channing H. Philbrick (Linear) Park in Penfield, NY. Megan and I live in the Panorama Plaza area, which is surrounded by parks. So, we decided to check out this one which is a couple of blocks from our place behind the Home Depot.
Philbrick was a former Town Supervisor of Penfield, NY and the park features Irondequoit Creek, which drops 90 feet in a one mile stretch of class III whitewater cascades. The area was first known as Sgoh-sa-is-thah (smashing water against rock) by the Iroquois and later became a mill and factory center around 1795 when Daniel Penfield purchased the township that now bears his name. This settlement lost its importance when milling around the High Falls in downtown Rochester started. The land was later converted to a sewage treatment plant that dumped right into the creek. It was removed and is the park we know today.
A nice hobo gazebo on an island in the middle of the creek
We saw giant Salmon carcasses and this bend. We just missed their run this year. These are clay cliffs that seem to have a lot of homes for little animals.
The bridge at Washington Street
Megan with her feet dangling off the edge watching the falls
Washington Street Bridge
A strange cascade/fall. Not sure if this is natural or manmade. It's a really long, perfectly straight falls. It may be manmade since it's so close to the milling area. Then again, the whole area is a milling area. So...
Foundation of one of the many old mills in the area
This appears to be an artificial waterfall runs for one of the old mills
Wonky bridge
Shelley Bridge.
So, a lot of nature shots these days. Probably because I haven't lived near anything natural since I started college in 1999. We'll stay in Rochester for Thanksgiving. The Lions should get destroyed by the Patriots. We'll see how the Cowboys can handle the Saints. And staying as far away from anything retail-oriented for the next week as people go Christmas Crazy.
