The Japanese Office

I love me some Office.
I didn't realize this until this past year.
I watched the original The Office from the UK last fall and then this spring break started watching the US version of The Office on DVD. I think watching TV shows on DVD (or on Hulu www.hulu.com) are the way to go for me.

Here's an SNL digital short with Steve Carell.
The Japanese Office

140,000

My little car made it to 140,000. Since I noticed it, I thought I would document it.

My little car does so well ... I'm proud of him!

Here's the dirt.

So, in the last two days I've put 960 pounds of dirt in my back yard. This is per the structural engineer who checked out my house a couple of times (before and after the foundation was fixed).

There's something about working with dirt that is just great. I don't know what it is, but I really enjoy it.

I also have put down mulch. A lot of mulch. I think I like working with the mulch even more. There's something about the warm mulch in my bare hands that is just earthy and lovely.

Hurray for dirt and mulch!

Oh yeah, it's helping my foundation too!

April Showers bring April Flowers - Peony

Well, even though I lost almost half of my buds off my only flowering peony bush/plant, the ones that survived are blooming!

Because of the placement of my other two peonies, they won't be blooming anytime soon because they need to be moved ... at least one of them needs to be moved anyway. I have some work ahead of me.

I have lots of plants to move because my swail is going to be redone and there are still lots of plants in there. Also, there are plants in other places when the dirt out of the swail was moved.

Maybe I'll have some time this weekend to work on my yard!

April 17, 2008 Fort Worth Hail Storm aftermath part 2

I think it may be hard to see on the second picture, but you can see how the hail was so hard and icky that it made holes plumb through the leaves of my magnolia tree. The first picture actually has some good holes that you can see very easily.

The last one is a close up of the almost perfect circle hole in a fallen leaf.

I'll have to take a picture of my fence so you can see how pounding the hail was.

Dallas Stars

Hurray for the Stars! They beat the Duck! Even though the Duck were the Stanley Cup Champions from last year, they are one and done this year.

I look forward to more good hockey from the Stars coming up.

Congrats Stars!

Expelled

This is the newest movie/documentary that I want to see. The trailer is pretty funny (Ben Stein in school boy shorts), but the movie is a documentary about how certain thoughts/beliefs (i.e. Intelligent Design) are not allowed on college campuses and how faculty have been fired/expelled for teaching such things. I'm looking forward to seeing this!

The web site for it is http://www.expelledthemovie.com and explains much better than I what the movie is about.