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What our house looks like

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Many of my loyal readers have asked me for a picture of what our new house looks like…. Thankfully, Joelle finally took a good photo of our place!
Great job – this one goes on the fridge :)

(from www.drawahouse.com – not drawn to scale)

See if you can make out the:

Wrap around deck
Bench we put together
Our chimneys (preserved for legacy sake – we’ve since gotten rid of one of them – damn rains!)
bird feeder in front, including the cute little birdy :)
rocks and plants and stuff

Missing, of course, are the raccoons :)

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Historic Photos of Seattle Homes

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

I love when people having historic photos of their houses up as artwork, so I decided to search for the information on they got these (so we can have one too…)

www.raincityguide.com/2007/04/14/historic-photos-of-your-seattle-home/

has all of the info. Sending an email to them now.

Update, February 18, 2008: Pictures are now in (actually they came a while ago, but just posting today).

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Snow Day 2007

Monday, December 10th, 2007

(And yes, I am finally blogging after a bit of a break. Decided there were some pictures I needed to get off of my camera, plus people keep bugging me)

A week or so ago was a weird weekend of weather in Seattle; a couple of days of snow, followed by the second worst rain-storm in the city’s history (more on that another time). As it was the first snow storm in the new house, Joelle and I decided to check out the snow.

Turns out the new neighborhood is fantastic for this – good hills, people like to sled, and since it’s higher up in elevation, it tends to snow just a little bit more.

All of the pictures are up at: picasaweb.google.com/ahaverbuch/SnowDay2007

My favorites of us:

My favorite “nature” shots:

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There’s a Racoon on our Roof!

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Ever since Joelle and I moved into our new neighborhood, we’ve seen quite a few racoons running around the streets. We haven’t thought twice about them, other than to avoid swerving into them on the road.

Saturday night, between Hannukah parties (Happy Hannukah to all by the way!) we stopped home for a bite to eat. As we walked up the front steps, we saw a racoon run around our deck. A second one soon followed, but this one decided to climb up our tree and hang out on our roof. Of course, not knowing what else to do, I immediately ran and grabbed the camera. It was a little dark out, so apologize for the contrast on the pictures below….