The Blue Car

For a couple of months now, we have noticed a guy driving blue Corolla doing laps past our house. For example, he drove past our house at 12:02 pm and 12:08 pm and 12:12 pm one afternoon. Last week I ran a few errands after picking up Jude from school. I tend to back into our driveway and into the garage to make easier to get the kids out and when leaving. I pulled up to the curb and started backing into the driveway and noticed the blue car pass me. Ah ha, I thought. I decided to follow the blue to see where exactly it goes on these laps he takes. So I followed it. 2 right turns, 6 left turns and 9 minutes later I was back in front of our house following the blue car on a second lap. On the second trip around he cut his route short and I saw him turning into his driveway.

His routine does not just happen once a day. I have noticed him driving past our house on 3 separate occurrences during various days. He usually drives past twice but sometimes he will drive past 3 times during each occurrence. We can hear his music blasting and see him smoking his cigarettes. He likes to listen to an array of music from classical to rock.

Oh, the things we see from the Porthole.

Woodpecker

Since our house is in close proximity to the metro park we are privileged to see many different types of birds. This is a picture of our woodpecker. We believe it is a downy woodpecker because it seems to have a short bill. We know this much, it's either a downy woodpecker or a hairy woodpecker.

No Shirt?

If you live somewhere in the Midwest I'm positive you felt the effects of Ike like we did. It was so windy it was unbelievable. Around our neighborhood a lot of smaller branches have been knocked loose from the trees and have fallen to the ground. We were fortunate in the fact that we did not loose power. A couple of times last night the lights flickered and I was certain the power would follow soon afterward. To my surprise it did not.
This evening while we were waiting for the soup to finish its course of cooking on the stove top, Delilah and I were watch the traffic past our house and we noticed our neighbor outside picking up sticks, he eventually got around to mowing his yard. Now, this particular neighbor likes to mow his yard and do yard work with his shirt off. Amazingly he does not have a tan from the whole summer of mowing his yard with out a shirt. It doesn't bother us that he mows his yard with out a shirt. But today, as I mentioned earlier in this post he was outside with out his shirt on and it was like 64 degrees. So I decided to head outside after dinner while he was finishing up mowing his lawn. I had my shorts and t-shirt on and I felt it was chilly.

Excitement

These were actually taken back on August 13. The local fire department was performing techinal training exercises in the metro park. We just happen to live really close to an entrance to the metro park.

Porthole Observations

Welcome to Porthole Observations.
Porthole: An opening in a fortified wall
Observations: The act of noting and recording something

Delilah and I will be posting our observations from our porthole otherwise known as our dining room window. Hope you all enjoy. Check often because you never know what might turn up.