Author: Tony

The best part about using a program to automatically manage your home page is the way that it reminds you that it’s time to post something.

Whenever I visit our homepage and find it blank, I know it’s time.

Wow it’s been a long time since my last post. I’ve been so busy with school and fits that I haven’t had time to do anything else.

Paige went out earlier this evening and took a few pictures of the flowers around our house.

I’ll have to post more stuff later. We still have some pictures of Max with bows in his hair and a few pictures of us trying to look at the eclipse.

You asked for it, so here they are. I’ve added two more galleries to the site. The first contains some pictures of our friends, including embarrassing pictures of Michael like this one –

I’ve also added a few pictures of our new puppy, Max –

I guess my other painting picture will have to wait until next time. Let us know what you think of these.

I don’t have class tomorrow, so I’ll probably update the site some more tonight. I have a few more painting pictures I want to post and a bunch of pictures of Max. In the mean time, here’s a nice picture of Paige painting the living room.

In other news, one of my programming projects is now being hosted at SourceForge. For those who don’t know, SourceForge is a big website for open-source software. It makes it easier for other people to download my program and help me with it’s development. My program is called Fill in the Site (fits), and you’ll be able to see its website at http://fits.sourceforge.net/

Classes started back up yesterday. I’ll be driving to Commerce four days a week for the next two months. That’s about a hundred miles round trip.

This semester I’m taking the History of Art and Death & Dying. So far it seems like there will be lots of reading and papers to write for both classes. A year ago, I couldn’t wait for summer to get here. Now I just hope it’s over soon.

Also, we made some home improvements over the weekend. I’ll post a picture or two later today.

Our new dog Jack passed away at 10:30 this morning. The vet said he was just too weak and had been abused for too long. We got him less than a week ago, but we were already very attached to him. He was the best dog we had ever had. I’ll miss him.

In case you haven’t heard, we have a new member of our family. He’s a two year old Cocker Spaniel. We adopted him Wednesday night. Unfortunately he was not taken care of by his previous owners. His hair was matted beyond belief and he was very skinny.

We worked on getting the matts out of his hair for about three hours Wednesday night and again for a few more hours on Thursday. He also made a visit to the vet on Thursday for his shots. He’s still not in good enough shape to put pictures up here. Thankfully, he has an appointment with the groomer Tuesday morning. After that I’ll put several before and after pictures up.

Now, about the name. His previous owners called him Midnight, but we thought that was kinda long for a dog’s name. He didn’t respond to it anyway. So we’ve decided to go with Jack. I wasn’t too sure about it at first because you just naturally call him Jackie sometimes and I was afraid that was a little too femine for him. But, then I remembered Jackie Chan so I’m OK with it now.

A few days ago I added a new gallery to the site. It’s only one page right now, but it will eventually be full of pictures of our cat Sam. Here’s a sample to get you started –

This is Sam right after a bath. We think he’s cute, let us know what you think.

Also, maybe later today I’ll add my rant about the new Star Wars movie…

Here is proof positive that good things do occasionally happen to good people.

The only other happy couple we know, Ben and Paula on the couch –

And Ben’s new car –

Everything seems to be going his way right now, but at least I know I beat him by one point on the SAT…

I finally got around to picking my favorite Scarborough Faire pictures and uploading them today. Out of the 100 we took, I picked 24. I decided it would probably be better to split them up, so there are four pages of pictures. Click the picture below to get started.

Also, I haven’t added any witty comments to these pictures yet. You should be able to tell what’s going on, but check back later for a description of each picture.