lol cats for halloween

I always visit this site when I need a quick laugh - lots of funny cat and animal pictures. I can has cheezeburger?


more animals

So...we move on to plan B - the post office

Well, we learned a couple weeks ago that we won't be reimbursed for moving expenses until Jim's first day at JPAC. We had been under the impression that we were going to be able to use military movers (or government-approved movers) and that cost would simply be deducted from the amount we are being granted for relocation. Not so. This would not be that big of a deal, except for the very high cost of shipping stuff from NW Ohio to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. We got some quotes and they ranged from $12,000 to about $6,000, and that's with us leaving most of the big furniture behind. Well, as you can imagine, we don't have that kind of money available to us at the moment. All that we have saved up to this point has to get us an apartment (first months rent and deposit), all of our utilities set up, plus cover all of our bills for a good month (or more for me). So - no moving company for us! We are going to try to sell most of our furniture, store some of our books at my mom's, and then ship the rest via parcel post through the U.S. Post Office. Yep. That ought to be interesting. This is complicated by the fact that we won't have an actual address until after we leave. Not so much fun at all. Part of the price of living in paradise, I guess. We are going to ship my car out, however. That expence we can put on my credit card, and pay it off once we recieve the reimbursement check.

Our anniversary trip to the zoo

We couldn't make any big plans for our anniversary this year, so we decided to do our favorite local activities - go to the Toledo Zoo! It was a beautiful day - mid-70s (very unusual for northwest Ohio this time of year). We saw our favorite baby polar bears - they're getting so big! While not an exotic location to celebrate our anniversary, it was nice just to be together.

Here are some photos from our adventure at the Toledo Zoo

From Toledo Zoo Oct 08

From Toledo Zoo Oct 08

From Toledo Zoo Oct 08

From Toledo Zoo Oct 08

From Toledo Zoo Oct 08

From Toledo Zoo Oct 08

From Toledo Zoo Oct 08

From Toledo Zoo Oct 08

Help our local humane society!

Click on the cat below and vote for the Wood County Humane Society in Bowling Green, Ohio! We adopted both of our cats from the WCHS. They take such good care of all of the animals there - but the $10,000 prize in this contest would really help them out! The contest is sponsored by Care2. Or vote for your own favorite animal shelter!

Let's Go Falcons!

Saturday was a beautiful day for football in NW Ohio. Sunny, and about 65 degrees, with a gentle breeze. Saturday was also BGSU's homecoming, so there was a lot of orange and brown to be seen around town. Jim and I decided that if we spent another fall here we would become season ticket holders, so we did - and this is our second BG home game of the season. Unfortunately, BGSU lost, to Eastern Michigan, for the first time in something like 8 years. I still maintain that a couple bad calls did us in! Here are a couple shots from the game. We lost by 3. At least my Buckeyes and the Colts managed to win this weekend - so it wasn't a total football washout.