+ 1 - 0 | § ¶Another Batch Of Pictures
Every season or so, I feel obligated to go through the pile of pictures that we have taken. I've put up in the gallery three more sub-galleries, Winter 2008, Our trip to the NJ State Aquarium, and Spring 2008 (ongoing). Check it out at:
http://www.thenortonzoo.com/gallery/main.php
And, I've put up some more videos. The first is Jack playing the kazoo. Pretty cute.
The second is Jack sort-of crawling across the floor. He can get where he wants to, it just takes some time.
+ 1 - 0 | § ¶A Rude Awakening
The smoke alarm went off this morning at 5AM. Fumbling around, half awake, I determined it to be one of two possible causes. The first is that I didn't even know that this smoke alarm even existed until it went off, being hidden among the beams in the basement, and thus the battery hasn't been changed in years. The second is that when the insulation guys came yesterday to insulate the house, they may have dripped some of the urethane foam onto the furnace exhaust lines, which get hot, and may have been smoking. This looks like something to figure out this evening, when I am actually awake. We changed the battery in the alarm and turned off the furnace, and at least as of 8AM, it had not gone off again.
Speaking of the insulators, we found out during our bathroom remodeling that our house didn't have any insulation in the walls, so we had some guys come in to blow in celulose into the walls and attic. They also plugged any drafty areas with urethane foam. They were very quick. I wasn't around much, but Kari seemed to be relatively happy with their work.