Dec 23 2006
Took some more pictures of Chip last night, he’s getting so big! Look at the pictures below for a compairison of the day after we got him (11/22) and last night (12/22). Click here to see more pictures from last night.
Nov 25 2006
Chip is all settled in to our house. Megabyte is a tad jealous, but she’s getting used to the idea of having a furball running around. Meg follows him around everywhere making sure he’s not getting into anything he shouldn’t. Check out the new pictures below:
Nov 15 2006
Nov 03 2006
We got a Halloween package from Paul’s parents yesterday with some really cute Fall and Halloween decorations / table linens for our house. Also in the package was a cute shirt for Meg (of course) that says “woof” :-) She likes it a lot and it fits her great! Thanks Narni & Lary!
Nov 01 2006
We had a great Halloween; it was our first one in our new house! We had a lot more kids than we thought, considering it’s a brand new neighborhood. Meg sat on Paul’s lap most of the time, greeting the princesses and goblins and vampires that walked up to the house. They all wanted to pet the cute puppy!
She got a Halloween hedgehog (her favorite squeaky toy) that she quickly disemboweled and a new pink argyle sweater to keep her warm this winter. Check her out:
Oct 10 2006
What a day! I let Meg out after work and noticed that she was sniffing around the basement window barrier thingy (very technical term there). There was a small hole in the dirt and I thought “great, we have a mouse living by our house.” Well, later that night, Paul and I let her out again and went out about a half hour later and found her covered in dirt head to toe after digging two holes about 8 inches deep and 10 inches wide. We got a flashlight and checked the holes and found a little mole crouched hiding in a tiny spot at the bottom of the hole, 30 more seconds and Megabyte would have had it! So now we have a mole in our backyard. Great. *sigh*
Then, Paul and I saw a rather big black spider on our foundation about a foot from the holes. Paul thought it may be a black widow and suggested we catch it (I was doubtful thinking that they didn’t live in this area). We did catch it and low and behold, it WAS a black widow spider! Immediatly my mind swept back to my childhood days of watching “Rescue 911” and the endless shows about people getting bitten by black widows and almost dying. I freaked out. 🙂
We brought the spider inside (in a closed jar of course), read up on the internet about them, took some pictures, and then sent it to heaven in the microwave before we headed to bed.
I’m still pretty freaked knowing that those are around here. I know they aren’t usually fatal for humans, but I’m more worried about Meg getting near one and getting bitten. We’ll have to be on the lookout for them now. Talk about a wild night! Check out the pictures of Meg’s dig and the spider by clicking on the picture below.
-ec
Oct 04 2006
That’s right! Now Megabyte can be seen all day long on this fun thing called the Internet! She’s going to be famous! OK, maybe not. I picked up a Logitech Quickcam STX from Best Buy last night because I had $25 in reward zone coupons (love that program!). They were out of the Microsoft camera that I wanted, so I thought I would try this. The program I am using is called WebCam XP and it does a live stream, has quite a few config options and can use more than one camera! I’ve got a TV Tuner card in the PC and a camcorder @ home that I am going to try out with it as well. The software I’m using supports up to 8 cameras, and you can have all 8 feeding at the same time. Pretty nifty. Would like to get a camera angle inside her kennel and maybe one aiming outside towards the driveway or front door.
–pc
