Various Celebrations and Activities

Since we got back from the trip we've been up to a number of different things.

We celebrated Miran's 33rd birthday on the 13th by going to a Japanese steakhouse. The food was pretty good and we enjoyed the "show" - there was fire and flying food.

For our anniversary we just ate at home - but we used a tablecloth and candles, drank wine, and Miran bought flowers - so it was definitely a special dinner.

We got a very welcome new-to-us car because Mom and Dad generously gave us the CR-V. I installed the console (that we bought Dad for his birthday) between the driver and passenger seats.

 

There isn't usually much wildlife in my posts (unlike Margaret and Lindsay's) but last week we did see a hawk (we think) in our front yard, who had killed a squirrel that seemed to be a little to heavy for it to fly off with. It kept trying to take off and would just land a few feet later. It dropped it on one of these attempts. It was just sort of hanging out in the yard trying to figure out what to do. Eventually it hop / dragged the squirrel into the trees across the street and started eating it there.

And yesterday Miran designed, built, and installed a filter holding box to cover our air intake. This has been something we've been trying to figure out since we moved in because its just open ducts. Until now we've just duct-taped a filter to the wood, but that never held very well. This new system will hopefully work better.