Our menagerie

Well, given the zoo we've had in our neighborhood this week, you'd probably think we lived out on a farm. A few weeks ago, we saw a group of four deer running into the woods close to our house, and we were surprised since we hadn't seen any deer since we moved in. A few days later, we saw a pair of the deer walking in the football field. Shortly after returning from vacation, we saw one deer (a buck, whom Eric has named "Duke") at the far end of our neighborhood. Fast forward to yesterday afternoon, when we looked up from lunch and saw Duke in the back yard! He's incredibly tame, and won't run away even if you walk up to him. In fact, several neighborhood kids have been petting him (much to Kim's chagrin).





And the rest of the zoo, you ask? Well we had friends over for a cookout yesterday. Of course, it was pouring down rain when everyone showed up, and Eric got to grill out in the drizzle. Fortunately, the rain stopped and the sun came out, so we decided to take Evan (who's almost 2) to the park to play. On our walk there, we ran into a family of geese with seven little goslings. Too cute.




Kim's parents returned from their vacation after dinner last night, and spent the night before heading back home today. We spent the rest of our day doing things around the house. We started by touching up the paint on the shutters and back door, and then we decided to put some edging around our flower beds. As it turns out, we'll need somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 bricks (ugh). Eric went and got the first load of 40 bricks, and we managed to get 30 of them installed before we couldn't stand the thought of digging anymore. Granted, we only started this project at 3 p.m., so I'd say we made pretty good progress! With any luck, we'll have the rest of them installed by next Saturday so we can mulch on Sunday. Keep your fingers crossed.