More January…

Well, there’s not too much else that’s been happening…

Of course, it’s been snowing more… Although we did get lucky with this last snow… We were supposed to be getting something in the neighborhood of 17 inches… but got about 7 inches instead. So, we spent the day yesterday just hunkered down here in our apartment watching Netflix. We did get out today though to take the trash and hit the grocery store real quick. Also, I’m in the process of making a pound cake right now… Check the cooking blog for pictures and whatnot.

Even the kitty thinks it’s cold outside… but she doesn’t mind too much when she’s in her scarf…

February will hopefully bring better weather… and with better weather come more blog posts…

Enjoy the view from our front porch.

New Glass!

So.. just wanted to get on real quick and brag… I just got 2 new lenses today, a Canon 85mm f/1.8 and a Tokina 12-24 f/4 … here are some quick samples:

I’m willing to bet that most folks can guess which picture is from which lens…

The 85mm is RAZOR sharp… and the 12-24 ain’t too shabby either as you can see in the kitty’s face. So, the nice thing is, these will allow for some great pictures … bad news is.. there’s nothing to take pictures of… it’s miserable outside and supposed to snow a '”undetermined” amount this weekend.

More to come soon.

Brrrr… January

It’s cold.

Ok… really cold.

Class has started for me, I have a rather busy schedule for Mondays and Wednesdays, so Virginia has started with Zumba classes and will also be doing Pilates on the evenings I’m in class till after 6. For New Years, we stayed in Boone, watched some movies with Josh and just had a few drinks. Midnight came and went without much fanfare, and the only big difference is trying to remember to write 2010 on the top of my papers.

Virginia has been keeping warm in her big furry coat, but she’s not been too happy about it.

The past few days the temperature has made it all of the way up to 40 degrees, so the snow is finally starting to melt a bit. We spent last Friday evening / Saturday morning with Leah and Brian in Chapel Hill, which was a BLAST since we got good food, and got to play with their new dog Mia.

Other than that, things have been busy with school and whatnot, and the weather has been horrible, so there’s not much fun to report. However, since the weather has been horrible and we’ve been staying inside, things over on the Cooking Blog are going well. Be sure to look around on there and get some ideas… or, feel free to give us some ideas.

Hope everyone is doing well and we hope to have more interesting things to report soon.

You stay warm, we’ll try to do the same.

New for 2010

Well, obviously, we’re married heading into this year. We’re going to try to be better with our regular updating of the blog, at least once a week on this blog, perhaps more on the new blog.

Speaking of new blog… http://boone-cooking.blogspot.com/ I decided to start a new blog, as we like to cook, and of course, we like to eat. Problem is, we don’t remember what we make, for my part, I never follow a recipe, and I might make something, and then forget whether or not I liked it… So, to remedy this, I started the cooking blog where Virginia and I will post things that we’ve been working on in the kitchen. If there’s something you’ve been wanting to make, but you’re wondering if it’s worth making, perhaps we’ve made it and reviewed it. If we made something and it just didn’t work out, we’ll be sure to post that, and perhaps you, the readers of the blog could make some recommendations to let us know where we went wrong, or what we could do to fix a recipe.

In other news, Will and Meredith were in town, and stopped by for dinner Saturday night. I made some homemade pasta, Virginia made Shrimp Diablo… it was awesome, but I was distracted and didn’t take pictures…