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We bought a house!

JFJ — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:50:32 +0000

We’ve had a little bit going on lately, as we bought a house! It is a brownstone condo in Chester Square, in the South End. We adore our new place and are excited to do a little bit of work and move in! Mannie isn’t so sure yet, but we think he’ll come around!

P.S. We highly recommend our real estate agent, Ken Snyder. He is awesome!

Winterizing Our Basil

JFJ — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:53:44 +0000

We winterized our potted plants. In some cases this meant planting bulbs and wrapping our boxwoods in burlap – in the case of our basil – we made pesto! We used fancy olive oil from France (thanks Shannon!) and our new itty bitty food processor (thanks Grandma Allen!).

Cute Mannie

JFJ — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:48:27 +0000

He fell asleep playing with his mouse and then used it to cover his eyes from the light.

A Red Sunflower

JFJ — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:34:52 +0000

Our red sunflower just bloomed!

Our Roofdeck is A’Bloomin’!

JFJ — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:39:52 +0000

Memorial Day Weekend Roofdeck Work

JFJ — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:11:29 +0000

For Memorial Day Weekend we cleaned up our roofdeck. For obvious reasons, even after repotting all the plants, it didn’t take too long, so we had some time to enjoy it. Manhattan gets to hang out there with us because he obeys commands (oddly enough for a cat) and he loves lounging on the deck. He isn’t allowed past the iron fence, so he reaches his neck out to sniff past it or rest his chin on it. He is super good, even when birds hang out there just past the fence and bath in the puddles on the roof. Good cat!

Manhattan & More Snow

JFJ — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:28:20 +0000

A night of cooking and building

JFJ — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:28:00 +0000

Building our new furniture and cooking tacos!

Blizzard

JFJ — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:14:49 +0000

These are just some snow and icicle pictures of our view we have taken so far.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

JFJ — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:42:13 +0000

We decorated this weekend!

Our front door:

Putting our “tree” up and decorating it:
(Note our “fireplace” behind Jeannette – and we were listening to carols on Pandora on Josh’s phone”.)

I love that owl!

We put a few more ornaments & decorations around the apartment.

Ol’time-y Santa hangs through the pass through into the kitchen:

A set of angels:

What do a snowman, wisemen on a camel and a South American man in boat have in common? Christmas!

I love mercury glass. (Ho Ho Ho!)

In Memory of Grandma Brown:

We got a super fun wreath to put under our “tree” for some real green. We tried to add lights – but found out that we hate LEDs. They are very bah-humbug/Las Vegas strip.

So we went no lights (with our metal “tree” we needed less LED-like). Someday we’ll have a real tree! Maybe we’ll upgrade to a Charlie Brown tree next year.

Did you notice our “tree-topper” (or tree-hover-er)?

And finally, just some fun shots of our ornaments: