Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Camping Trip 08

It is almost that time again with less then two weeks until the next camping trip at the Property. This year is a bit more special then normal as it will be my last year to attend the camping trip as a bachelor.

The Drunken Woodpecker Corral Bar will be finished this year, as we are getting an Alaskan Mill very soon, so we will be able to add the roof among other details. If all goes well with the mill, then I would also like to build a good stout table and a few benches for the camp site.

The other project that we are planning on doing this year is to build a pizza oven and a new barbecue pit. Sean has been designated as the chief architect of this project. Hopefully the mortar will last longer then a few seasons this time around.

Pirates and Pears

Well, the day has finally arrived. I asked Vicki to marry me a few weeks ago, and we will be getting hitched next July. I beat my sister to the punch on this one (I never thought that would happen, but then again you never know).

Some may be wondering, what the heck is with the domain name PiratesandPears.com?

Well in our search for a domain name, we looked for all the sappy domains, like vickiandchris, chrisandvicki, vickiloveschris... it went on and on and they were all taken. We even tried catchesparents.com (catch being the pup), and it turned out that it was open but if any letter was mistyped it would lead to a porn site. So we were left with the task of coming up with something a little more original.

I had always liked the idea tha Vicki is of pirate lineage, I mean, who doesn't like pirates? So I figured that that could have something to do with the name, and then I remembered that there are Bartlett pairs... one thing led to the other and I cam up with piratesandpears.com. It makes perfect sense to me...

So check out our site here!