No snow for us...

The Northeast has had two major snowstorms since Christmas, and another is supposed to hit tomorrow/Wednesday. We've managed to avoid both of them with our sheer bad luck. Jim and I have developed our anti-snow forcefield till it's approximately 40 miles in radius on any side.


See that little white spot in the middle of northern Virginia? Yeah. We're right in the center.

The tradition continues...

A long standing McNeil tradition is to not pay excessive amounts of money for lawnmowers. I'm happy to say the tradition continues today. With about $30 in tune-up materials I successfully resurrected the old lawnmower the previous tenants of our house left in the woods. I'll put up some pictures tomorrow, but it was actually a pretty sweet little Briggs and Straton mower underneath the grime, rusted out blade, burned out spark plug, and oil like tar.

Hooray for fixing things!

Halloween 2010

I know it's a bit late, but here are some pics from this year's Halloween!

New car!!!

We got a new car!!! for me!!!

It's gorgeous - it's a silver 2007 Impreza. I love it. It is wonderful. And fast. And is in perfect condition, with low mileage (and can pass inspection in VA). And I love it. Did I mention that I love it? It's a hatchback, gets pretty good gas mileage, and has plenty of room for the critters in it. Yaaaaaaaay. It's super fun to drive too. I'm calling it the Silver.

A pic from the website...


I will miss my Raisin... still not sure what to do with it...

Gemini is clearly living a difficult life

We were away this weekend, and a friend from the SCBI was house-sitting for the fuzzies. She got this classic shot while she was studying...

Carving pumpkins!

Is crazy fun :-)

Here's mine!


And Jim's. We both also carved a miniature pumpkin, and those turned out great!



And D's.

My miniature pumpkin


All the pumpkins lined up on the deck. They look great!



Happy Halloween!

More scenes from last weekend

Some more scenes from last weekend...

We went to a 5 acre corn maze. Unfortunately due to the drought the corn was very, very small. But it was still fun!


One of the featured attractions was a pumpkin slingshot!
And Jim got to eat soft-serve ice cream for the second time. With sprinkles.


Plus, they had a pumpkin patch. This made us all really happy....