Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
auto

used car lot

As if it didn’t look like one before, the driveway we share with our neighbors (who have three vehicles themselves) officially looks like a small used car lot. We added another vehicle to our fleet on Monday, a Scion tC for Jake, who turns 16 in a couple of weeks.

We were going to wait till closer to his birthday to get the car, but he’s pretty picky for someone who was getting a free car. His most important requirement was that the car had to have a manual transmission. There are not a whole lot of these around, so I’ve been keeping my eyes open. I came upon the tC, which was on his shortlist, so we went to check it out over the weekend and then we bought it on Monday. And that is that.

movies

dark ages

Yesterday, there was a brush fire somewhere in Johnstown and it took out one of the fiber optic cables that delivers cable and internet services to the area. It affected 10,000 customers and we were one of them. The outage started in early afternoon and was not resolved by the time I went to bed. It did not, however, put a damper on our entertainment as we all have data plans on our phones and we already had a DVD lined up for the evening (we’re old fashioned in that we still watch DVDs).

The movie was another from our top 13, No Country for Old Men. We all enjoyed it (not surprisingly, since it’s in our top 13). And, thankfully, the internet was back on this morning.

pets

lizzy goat

I came home from work on Monday to find that Lizzy ate a huge piece of her canvas bed cover–it was at least the size of a sheet of paper and is fairly heavy material. I got on the phone with the vet and they said to watch her for signs of distress (or take her to Pittsburgh to get scoped. sigh.). She threw up a couple of times that evening and early the next day but by later that day, she was eating (dog food) again without incident. And, stuff started to come out the other end, so that is good. I thought for sure we were going to end up with an intestinal blockage on our hands. I guess we’re not out of the woods yet since she’s still passing pieces of the cover, but at least things are moving in the right direction. No pun intended.

out and about

date morning

Despite the fact that Brian and I are always together due to work, it seems like we never get to do anything fun. So, we’re jumping on the “date night” bandwagon and are trying to schedule some non-work related activities into our lives. The first of these happened Saturday morning, when we went to a muzzleloading gun show at Old Bedford Village.

Date night has only one rule, and that is no talking about work. And, it doesn’t have to happen at night (hey, we’re old and tired by 10pm). We were fairly successful at this on our first attempt.
small business ownership

quick project

Our office kitchen had a long table in it. We had printers and other office-related things on it. The table was made of plastic and started to bow over time. To remedy this, we bought a couple of base kitchen cabinets and got them assembled and installed over the weekend. Only the trim remains for the project (isn’t that always the case?). Unfortunately, since so much time has passed since we originally did the kitchen, we were not able to get matching cabinets or countertop. Still, the new stuff doesn’t look bad and it’s in the same vein as the originals.