Thursday, September 28, 2006

Our four-legged roommate "hunted" and then "devoured" a pear this morning. That crazy Scrapperton is out of control! At least his hunting intentions are right, even if he only goes after inanimate objects in our fruit bowl.

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Welcome To The Ranch

You know what's better than writing about what goes on at Northwood Ranch? Being too busy having fun doing stuff that there's no time to write about it!

Well okay it's not like we live in like uh...some kind of magical land of nothing-but-awesomeness-24-7, but life is pretty good.

For starters, we have a new member of the household! Welcome to the ranch Jadie. After being a long-term welcome any time visitor, Jade has now gained full resident status. Hurrah!

This does mean that we'll be saying goodbye to Christian, but he'll live on in our hearts. And all of his worldly posessions will live on in the attic for the next few months while he's on tour and looking for an apartment. So in a way, it's like he's never left. We're certainly going to miss B.A., but what we lose in dry cynicism and an endless supply of cheese pizza will be more than made up for by goodbye hugs in the morning, kisses when I get home from work, and a beautiful woman with whom I can fall asleep next to every night. As much as I like Christian I don't think he and I would have ever reached that stage in our relationship.

Unfortunately, we'll be saying goodbye to someone else soon as well. We've had the pleasure of looking after Uzi (Oozy? Oouzzee? I don't know), the feline member of Northwood East. Uzi is just a lovely cat and watching the shenanigans that she and Scrapperton have gotten into over the past week and a half has been nonstop entertainment. But the Stolen Minks are returning from their tour tonight, and I'm pretty sure those kids are going to want some kitty lovin' right away. Goodbye girl, come back and visit soon!

Robbie's been doing plenty fine as well. He's turned into a regular bicycle fixing machine, having done up a second sweet fixed gear bike for himself, working on a nice ride for Tiina across the street, and volunteering at Bike Again fixing bicycles up for people who could use a bike but don't have the cash to buy one. Rob: great all around guy, and awesome roommate. And, now he's working at the library in Spryfield! I'm pretty sure that within another week's time, every kid that goes in there will be treating him like a hero and worshipping the ground he walks on. They'll all be like, "when I grow up, I'm going to get tattoos and piercings just like you, Rob!" Congrats on the new job, and good luck subverting the minds of today's youth.

And the recording business continues to do well. The Stolen Minks cd was finished just in time for their tour, Cobrato's ep is in the vault (CD release date: sept 21st!), and Juan Love's full length (of which I recorded two songs) is now available for purchase. Yay me! Apologies to The Tragedies for not being able to fit them into the recording schedule. Next time.