January 24, 2009

The car is stuck.

Thank you Delilah for taking these great pictures and contributing to the Porthole.

Seventeen Days Later

Remember when...

It wasn't long ago when we had views like this from the ole porthole.

Another Fire Truck

On November 5th, the Falls fire dept came to our house.  Don't worry it wasn't an emergency.  They have a great program where they will come out and install smoke detectors.  They provided and installed 5 smoke detectors in our house.  It is a great program for the community.

The Squirrel

This squirrel was burying a walnut in our planter on the front porch.

The Season of Fall

There hasn't been to much going on around here from the Porthole. The neighbor sill mows his yard with his shirt off and the blue car still doing 2 or 3 laps in about 10 minutes a couple of times a day. I told Delilah that one of these days when I'm outside and see him coming down the road I'm going to position myself at the intersection and ask loudly what the deal is with him doing laps past my house. I almost had the opportunity to do it but I couldn't get to the intersection in time. Speaking of Delilah, I asked her contribute to this blog and she has yet to do so.
We were taking a walk several weeks ago and the neighbors diagonally across the street from us ran into us and commented on the yard. They said that the yard we starting to look really nice. I'm glad they are happy with the progress made so far.
Like I said there hasn't been much to observe through the porthole.

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.