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National Night Out

07 Oct 2008 by

Is tonight. Did you go out in your neighborhood and meet the neighbors, see the insides of large law enforcement vehicles, and pick up all kinds of goodies (like those blinking lights to attach to your bike or walking gear when you’re out in the dark)?  Of course the kids stocked up on a few pieces of candy too.

It’s our annual visit to see a helicopter…

…fire truck….

more fire truck…

and inside of the constable’s car–complete with shotgun–except my kids don’t really know what that is so they didn’t ask about it too much.

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Wood Pecker Pic

07 Oct 2008 by

Here’s our little feathered friend and the mess he made of our siding.  It’s worse than what is pictured. But we haven’t seen him in about a week.  It looks like a Nuttall Woodpecker.

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Water Bill

07 Oct 2008 by

I nearly fell out of my seat this morning when I opened our electric/water bill from the City of Austin.   How could our water bill be SO high?  I’ve watered the yard less–at least our yard still looks half dead.  We’re using low flow toilets and 1 gal/min aerators on all the sinks our precious water-wasting children use.  We don’t have water leaks. We have the 5 minute shower, 2 inch bath rule down pat! How could this be?  We’ve had a couple of guests this month, but SURELY they did not use 10,000 gallons worth of water!!

Well, I just had to check our meter.  And sure enough, although the reading on our bill according to the CoA for September 29, was 9170, when I checked it today, it only read 9134.  Which means, the CoA and its employees are not infalliable in taking the meter readings.  The city is going to correct our bill and “hopefully” it’ll all even out with the next bill.  I’ll let you know how that goes.

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