Oh, I may blog again from Seminole, but it won’t be from this spot, it won’t be as a resident, and it won’t be for a long time. In less than an hour, I’ll be picking up the U-Haul truck we’ve reserved (they upgraded us to a larger size for free, since the smaller truck[...]
Our new landlord in Killeen earned some brownie points today. My wife contacted her and we straightened out the water department situation. The property owner will let us stay for two days on their water dime, until we can visit the water office on Monday to start the account in our name. (We’ll pay them[...]
Got the lease signed, and a deposit put on the apartment. Great. But, we’d hoped to move down this weekend — load the truck Friday, drive down Saturday & unload the truck, and return it Sunday or Monday. Killeen says no. The city requires (as do many cities, I’m sure) that I go to the[...]
Naturally, as I waited for my property rental agent to call from Texas, the entire town of Seminole was taken off of AT&T’s map. By that, I mean they disconnected us from the world for several hours. No one in town (or nearby areas) could access internet through AT&T from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.[...]
(Copyright © 2009 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.) There’s some evidence of packing in the photo above, but it doesn’t cover all that my wife and I did on Sunday afternoon. You can see the empty shelves around the TV, where many DVDs used to be — they’re now in the boxes[...]
Pending approval of our rental application (hopefully by Monday), we’re now spending what could be our last weekend in our old apartment. I mean “old” in a variety of ways. It was built (guessing) in the 1970s or very early ’80s, which is old, compared to our new apartment — which was built in 2006[...]
Thursday evening, when my wife got home from work (at about 5:45 p.m.), we left immediately in my car, heading straight south. We took SH99 south of town and then SH59 through Maud and St. Louis, and got on US177, which took us all the way to Sulphur. SH7 to Davis, and SH77 to I-35,[...]
Without much warning and very little planning (just a few quick visits to websites), my wife and I drove to Killeen on Thursday evening. We stayed in a hotel in Temple & spent Friday looking at apartments. I think we found one! It’s late — we just got home — so I’ll blog in more[...]
Our boxes arrived today. I took that as a miracle, since I ordered them yesterday afternoon (mentioned here). That’s the first time in my nine years of living here that I ordered something online and got it the next day, even including the times I paid for “next day” shipping. This time, I didn’t pay[...]
This is from a year ago, but I don’t think I ever mentioned it. My wife and I always laugh when reminding each other of this story. We were at the neighborhood playground. Rebecca was drawing on the sidewalk using a white rock to make white lines. Two other girls, probably four and five years[...]
(Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)
(Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)
(Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)
This video is is cuter without sound (I forgot to mute the TV before recording). Rebecca was proud that she drinks out of a glass now, without spilling: (Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)
Flickr did their biggest change ever this evening. There’s a little more about that on my other blog. I’m seriously considering ending my eight-year relationship with Flickr. If only there were another decent place to share photos (and remember, I said “decent”, so no one suggest Facebook). Rebecca worked on learning my limits again today.[...]
WEATHER: 72-93°F, mostly cloudy RLF requested the playground today, after a few weeks of not going, so I said okay. She wouldn’t walk there; only rode in the stroller. And only played there for about five minutes before she was ready to come home. (This is why we’d quit going in the first place.) She[...]
➤ A couple of nights ago, Rebecca woke up crying about 2 a.m. My wife heard it, rushed in. RLF said she needed to go to the bathroom. MF took her; RLF did. Then RLF went back to sleep. (I didn’t wake up. Noises will prevent me from falling asleep, but very little will wake[...]
After a cooler than average spring, yesterday was the hottest day of the year (high: 92°F) until today’s record high of 96°F. Had a pretty good day with Rebecca (scroll down for photos).
Rebecca did well with potty again today — still working on #2. After an early, short, and surprising nap (she put herself down at 11:50 for just an hour), much of the afternoon was full of fussing and craziness. I got a new debit card today, to replace the old one that was cracking and[...]
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