USA | Sunday, 25 Sep 2011 | Views [509]
Marg stayed home today due to having suffered a twisted kneecap yesterday - a result of being on hands and knees while painting cupboard shelves and getting up from there, awkwardly. Or something. I decided to go to the Smithsonian Annex at Dulles ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 24 Sep 2011 | Views [176]
Again the day was inclement, so we decided to stay home and do some further programmed work. The new jig saw was unpacked and put to work on the cutouts in the shelves which were removed to accommodate the sink drains. It all went well, though ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 23 Sep 2011 | Views [363]
The weather was again inclement, so we were more or less confined to barracks, though we did manage to contact the Home Depot store who had sold us the second hand Ryobi jig saw and they advised we could take it to any Home Depot for exchange. That ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 22 Sep 2011 | Views [377]
We were dropped off at Home Depot today, so we could pick up some light fitting brackets. We had taken down a few of the brass light fittings in the house, with a view to painting them in an oil rubbed bronze finish and found when we did so, that ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 21 Sep 2011 | Views [398]
Went for a walk this morning to visit three car rental places and see if we could finalise a deal. We'll need a car over the period 4-12 Oct. The first was to Budget at the Comfort Inn, near Home Depot. The young fellow there gave me a price ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 20 Sep 2011 | Views [390]
Foraged at Lowes and Home Depot for reticulation bits and pieces, ie pop up sprinklers, hose and fittings. These fittings and all the gubbins, have been extremely difficult to locate, but we finally succeeded at Lowes in Woodbridge, about 13 miles ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 19 Sep 2011 | Views [382]
Journeyed into Old Town with Leanne thius morning. She was off to work while we were intent on further exploration. We first called in on the AAA (US equivalent of our RAC of WA), to get some maps of the areas we will be travelling through next ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 18 Sep 2011 | Views [166]
We spent a little time around the house today, doing a spot of maintenance and then walked down to the Brookfield Mall, to collect a few US Post Office packing boxes. These are provided free by the PO and charged for international postage at ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 17 Sep 2011 | Views [219]
Motivation was the problem today, so we stayed home in the AM and only journeyed a short distance to the Fairfax County Library in our area, named after the US Navy explorer, Richard Byrd. While reading the Wikipedia entry for Byrd, I saw that he ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 16 Sep 2011 | Views [303]
Our first real day out exploring. We'd decided to visit the Smithsonian Museum of American History, mainly because, although we'd seen it before (a few years ago), it has only recently been completely renovated. It was a good choice. The centrepiece ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 15 Sep 2011 | Views [179]
We got dropped off at Springfield Plaza this morning and found our way to Target first, just to browse, then did a bit of grocery shopping at Giant. Laden with a mule load's worth of heavy shopping, we trudged our way home and restocked ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 14 Sep 2011 | Views [192]
I went into town (Alexandria) with Leanne this morning. She dropped me off at Ace Hardware on South Washington St. We are going to lay a sprinkler system on the new back lawn and garden and I wanted to pick up some pop up sprinklers and reticulation ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 13 Sep 2011 | Views [257] | Comments [1]
I should start this day's report with a memorial to those who died in the three acts of terror which occurred on this day, 10 years ago. I'm referring to the three planes which were commandeered by terrorists and crashed into various structures ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 12 Sep 2011 | Views [370] | Comments [1]
The big day has finally arrived, as all big days do. The rain appears to have all gone, despite the weather forecast which predicted a 20% chance of precipitation (ie rain) - the forecasts here are just as reliable as those back home ! So we ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 11 Sep 2011 | Views [197]
A prpearation day, with the two groups (male and female) heading out to do last minute shopping and the myriad of tasks that need completion before the event. Some of the guests arrived today from as far afield as Philadelphia and New Yprk, so ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 10 Sep 2011 | Views [233]
The day started off as any normal day does, but degenerated with the latest natural disaster to strike the central east coast. Did a little housekeeping in the morning in preparation for the wedding on Saturday and then welcomed Brian's folks who ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 9 Sep 2011 | Views [266]
Nothing much happened today so there won't be much text here - in fact this is more or less, it. Another indoor day - nothing to be done outside. I'm reading a series of books written by Cormac McCarthy - an American writer who is selling very ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 8 Sep 2011 | Views [357]
Didn't venture out of the house today, it was raining quite heavily most of the day and that is predicted to continue till around Fridaqy. It will give our new plants and lawn an excellent grounding and we hope that all will return to brightness ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 7 Sep 2011 | Views [359]
Labour Day here in the US and for those students still in the Virginia schooling system, it is the last day of their very long summer break from July till now. Marg and Leanne had a long list of tasks to do for the wedding and shops to visit, so ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 6 Sep 2011 | Views [461] | Comments [1]
This was a big day ! We started a few days ago, with this: Marg and Leanne somehow managed to go back to Home Depot again today and reported back that they had a new shipment of sod (roll on lawn). After some brief discussion, we took two ... Read more >
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