Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Marie & Barbara joined us Saturday as we followed along with Soren & the Guardians as they defeated the Pure Ones in spectacular 3D IMAX format - not as good as Alice in Wonderland but an A for amination for sure.  

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole  

Movies on Today Review

Barbara, Three Dog Owner

Barbara found an appropraite tee-shirt for herself while shopping at Fisherman's Village. 

Burger Monger



Jake with cousin Joanne & Aunt Marie



September 21 -  Marie, Joanne's Mom, and Barbara, a friend from the Clear Lake area are  here at our new house for a visit.  Afterpicking up Marie at her New Port Richey home and Barbara at the Tampa aitport we detoured to the BurgerMonger before heading to Punta Gorda.  Joanne's cousin, Jake, owns and operates the BurgerMonger. 



Marie, Barbara & Joanne



Bathroom Addition for Sherwood

Building a box to house Sherwood's kitty litter pan kept me busy the week prior to moving in our new house.  His bathroom now resides in our garage with access from the utility room through a cat door.  Lexan windows in the top and front let light in.  A 12 volt fan on a timer sweeps air out of the box into the garage each morning.  The top opens for servicing the box.  A front door drops down to accomodate easy removal of the Litter Maid litter box if required.

One would think Sherwood would appreciate all my hard work.  No such luck.    We tried reasoning with him to no avail. We repeatdly pushed him through the cat door into the box. He quickly learned to make the return trip on his own but refused to enter the box without a push.

We moved the kitty litter pan inside and tried putting his food in the outside box.  Sherwood looks foward to his meals so we thought this approach held promise. Almost. Sherwood was just plain obstinate.

Finally, we removed the swinging plastic door that is part of the Staywell Pet Door. Success. Sherwood just didn't like that swinging door.

Dirt Dwellers

One of our Texas friends, John Allison,  gave up a long term liveaboard life for a for a mortgaged house on the bay a few years ago.  He refers to anyone, including himself, not living on a boat as a dirt dweller.  

Any exceptions?  How about someone who lived on an airplane or a blimp?  Could suxh a person be  an air head rarther than a dirt dweller? 

Anyway, ownership of a lawn mower certainly confirms true dirt dweller status. Here I am with my new mower, a dam dirt dweller if there ever was one.

Dirt Dweller's Dictionary

September Update - Out of Money!

September 19 - Boxes are unpacked, contents sorted, stored, trashed or given away. We can get both cars in the garage!  Pictures hung.  Punch list complete. Fifty amp dock power supplied.  Lights backordered have been installed including a dock light.  All of our new funiture has arrived.  All that's left is a carpet for the office and blinds for the office windows on order.  Any more additions will have to wait becuase we are offically out of money!  The credit card needs to be fed and it is very hungry.  Property taxes await.  On the other-hand we now have accumulated a massive amount of air miles.

I have added a few more photos of  our house more or less at the completed staged to our web album. Check them out. I will try to add pictures of all the rooms over the next week or so.

Although I found and fixed an antifreeze leak, our boat remains out of commisson due to a overheating problem that I am still working on. 

Guess who now has a Droid X?   

Moving In

August 30 - Moving Day - 2   We met Mat, our construction superintendent for a no surprises "walk through" of the house and reviewed the short punch list of items still to be completed.  Joanne & I were more than ready to move-in! We now have the keys!!!

August 31 - Moving Day -1  I used a free Remax truck to move half a garage of boxes from our storage locker to the house. 

We also closed with builder and transferred the electricity and city utilities to our name.

September 1 - Moving Day.  The Moving truck showed up right on time, 8 AM.  By noon , our funiture was in our new house.  We picked up Michele at the airport about 11 PM. First night to sleep in our new house.

September 2 - Moving Day +1  New bedroom funiture arrived.  Of course, we are still unpacking and sorting things out.

September 3 - Moviing Day +2 Constance stopped by to provide much appreciated assistance.  

September 6 - Still moving in but making progress! Can get one car in the garage!