Return from the Islands

The beach by Doug's apartment on St. Croix. This is where I did a little bit of fishing.

Carrie and I have returned from a week in St. Croix with Doug. I'm not going to write a big post today, but suffice it to say it was frickin' glorious. Doug is one hell of a tour guide. Stories and more pictures coming soon!

Bit of news: I will be living and working in Milwaukee this summer, from early June to early September. Boo yah! I have seminars and stuff here in DC next week, and my job starts two weeks from yesterday. I'll be done end of April, at which time I'll roll back to CoMo to defend my master's project. Hurrah!

Goodbye CoMO

Just a quick post here folks.

End of the semester craziness has kept me from doing any blogging about our recent adventures. I'll get back into it soon, I promise.

Anyways, here's the news:

Moving tomorrow out to DC for the semester. Gonna stop in Columbus for a couple days en route. Trying to fit all my gear in my Jeep, which will be an adventure in itself.

Then to DC for a couple days to unload and get to know my neighborhood.

Then home to Charleston for Christmas. Carrie will get in town just after and then we'll head to the farm for a little adventuring. Then off to Morgantown for some shenanigans before heading back to DC for New Years.

Then it's off to the US Virgin Islands. Hurrah!

So here's a couple photos from Thanksgiving.

My casserole!

Grant, why is Sam's head buried in my fuzz?

We found this little Furby furball standing outside Carrie's apartment in the freezing cold late at night with no owner in sight. We took him in overnight and posted some signs around. Long story short, the owner saw the signs, came over and freaked out happy to have "Petey" back.

Arachnocrazia

Here's a little video from earlier this fall. Dr. Mike and D$ had a sweet garden out back, with tomatoes and peppers and a pumpkin and all sorts of other goodies. They also had some little stink bugs who loved the tomatoes; they also had a giant frickin' yellow garden spider that loved the stink bugs. Of course we tossed plenty of bugs into the spider's web. They stick better if you give 'em a good squeeze -- enough to wound them so they can't escape but not so much they stop wiggling.

Check out the mad spinning action from this spider. He hit the jackpot when we found him.