Checking In

To all my friends, family and loyal blog-followers, I'm sorry that I've been neglectful of regularly posting blog updates.

My travel has slowed down a bit and I'm in town for a full month! July is going to be great and while summer is my least favorite time in Austin, I'm going to embrace it - Barton Springs, swimming, beer drinking and early morning walks will get me through the heat.

This weekend I was in Alabama for my friend Haley's wedding. The wedding was amazing and she looked beautiful. I had tons of fun with my friends and there are some amazing stories and pictures to share but I don't think my interpretation of the adventures will do the weekend justice. Plus, they won't be very funny to anyone who may not have been there, or who has never been to Alabama. Needless to say, Alabama was much prettier than I thought but did live up to my food expectations - I don't think I had one vegetable (unless you count fried sweet potatoes) since getting there on Friday.

I did get some more insight into my neighbor's frisky middle finger activity. Apparently, he hits the bottle a little bit too much sometimes. Sadly, this makes me feel better for me - that I didn't do something to upset him. It makes me sad for him, but what can you do? I mean even I drink to get through this heat.....

I got back in town tonight and picked up Buster and Murphy (Haley's dog who I'm watching for some of her honeymoon). They are beyond tired after spending four days at the boarders and have spent most of the afternoon sleeping - it's quite amazing. But they are such best friends and follow each other around so much, that I had to share this picture of them looking out my front window, together. They are working hard to keep me safe from all the random noises they hear outside.

In conclusion, the only exciting thing that's happened around my house was last week I had to hire a tree trimmer to cut down some large limbs that had cracked off my tree and fallen into a neighbor's yard. They were pretty big branches and it's unclear what caused them to fall but luckily they didn't hurt anyone or anything except my check book. Geez, cutting down branches is pricey! So the life of a homeowner continues to be interesting. And hopefully I'll have more to share with you soon.