Posts from May, 2008
The quick brown fox jumped over the good, but lazy Parker family.
if you look at this picture from when we moved in, the water heater is to the right of the refrigerator, under the marble counter top.
it’s startlingly hard to believe who would think it was a good idea to completely enclose the water heater with cabinets, marble, and 2 exterior walls (less the 3 inch hole blocked by the fridge, of course) … but at least we found it and it doesn’t look too, too ancient.
now, about 90% of me wanted to stay home, sleep, eat, play wii, etc … but with 72 degree weather, and working for an organization with “nature” in the title, it seemed like the slacking could wait until those 102 degree days in July.
so, i hopped on my bicycle, and headed up the C&O Canal Towpath that runs along the Potomac towards West Virginia. The trail head is four hilly miles from our place but, once on the path, it’s mercifully flat for the rest of the 35 mile round trip.
there really are about ten days out of the year where D.C. is the most beautiful place on earth, and i just got lucky with one of them.