Our house bat reappeared the very next night. Hanging by just one leg again–what a show-off! Lessons learned, trapped much more quickly this time. It is safe to say that this one won’t be back again.
Archive for the ‘Dispatches’ Category
Bat came back!
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Just Hanging Out
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Wasted two whole hours tonight trying to get this little bastard to leave. Initially tried to get it to leave out open windows and doors but eventually trapped it and set it free outside. Surprisingly stubborn about staying put when sprayed with water.
Coinstar proceeds well spent
Thursday, July 26th, 20076-pack of beer and pint of cherry vanilla ice cream purchased with $14 worth of Coinstar proceeds. Over 1,500 scuzzy pennies had been abandoned and scattered about the garage by our house’s previous owner. I managed to separate and hang on to more than a few wheat cents rather than let them go at Coinstar’s 91 cents to the dollar–for unexplained reasons I have an affinity for these 50-plus year-old coins even though to my knowledge they aren’t worth any more than the ones with the Lincoln Memorial as ‘tails’.
Honoring the new Master
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006Congratulations to Angela on earning her Executive Masters Degree in Public Administration (XMPA) from Baruch College! Angela has turned in her big capstone project paper so she can finally take a well-deserved break. Commencement was held at Madison Square Garden. Click here for gallery photos.
Welcome Stella the Chihuahua
Sunday, June 18th, 2006Angela and I have recently welcomed a new family member to our home! Stella is a 12-week old Chihuahua puppy, born March 15th, 2006. According to Angela, this makes her a Pisces. The housebreaking process is making me think Aquarius…but Angela is generally right about things like this.
She is quite cute and couldn’t be much smaller–the vet weighed her at 2.4 lbs. Her older brothers Calvin & Neo appear reasonably tolerant of their new attention-grabbing sister.
Be sure and visit the photo gallery of Stella’s First Day home.
New WWW Home, ‘Dispatches’
Thursday, June 8th, 2006I hope visitors enjoy my new internet home. The intent is for this to grow into a long-lived repository of things of interest to me, and hopefully my friends and family as well. I always liked the quaint, journalistic sound of ‘Dispatches’ for correspondence from afar.
Here is an older internet dispatch about my current home region, Westchester County, NY, one of my inspirations for this site: Dispatches from the Vanishing World - Westchester County