Blog Color

A bridesmaid, Holly McHugh, just commented to me (via another social media (called facebook, maybe you have heard of it (nice double parentheses, love it))) that the brown is too dark as a background – and I agree. I wanted a more sandy brown so lighter, but now when I look at it my background is green. Weird! What do you think? In the meantime here is a picture of Hol Bol and the bride from their trip to Cape Mae. Maybe I should write a little introduction about everyone in the wedding party – project for the weekend!

Witt Wednesday

Since I don’t have a place to stay in Springfield anymore I usually end up at my buddy Conor’s This will also be true tonight. Thanks Conor! Conor has also agreed to be one of my groomsmen, which is really cool. Conor also gets underlined red in my word processor maybe that is why his dad thinks his name is Conner, or is it Conononer? Not sure. Anyways, about to get some dinner and then off to Witt. Hopefully Melissa has a good night in Granville reading Harry Potter.

Look Photography

Our friends Marta and Kevin got married on August 15th. It was a wonderful wedding up in Chicago with around 100 people so probably pretty similar to our. The Church was beautiful, the food was great and so on. Everything was really perfect including the wedding. I will put up some of my pictures from the wedding, but for now please go to LOOK PHOTOGAPHY to see Vicki and Tom’s beautiful pictures of the event. Vicki and Tom has over the last year become great friends of ours. It is wonderful to see them work and their great daughter. Currently they have an exhibit at the Westcott House that I encourage everyone to go visit.

Melissa’s old Job

I have to have a meeting with Melissa’s old work friends at the Wittenberg Community Service Office now. I am sure that will take longer than I planed. But, I like to talk to them and I’m sure they want know how Melissa is doing. And I have to be nice to Cindy since her husband makes the second best cabbage rolls in the world. My aunt Irith makes the best, but then again Hungarian and Swedish cabbage rolls are completely different. Still don’t get why Mike makes Hungarian though when his last name is Larson.

First Granville – Springfield Trip

I had my first morning commute between Granville and Springfield today and I have to say I thought it would have been much worse. It only took an hour and 15 minutes, which is really not all that bad. I could not help to think how wonderful it would have been if we had a fast train going parallel to I-70 with a couple of stops. That would have allowed me to do some work on the train or relax more than what you can/should while driving. Oh well maybe that will come some day. My drive was made easier with some good NPR and 50 cent delicious coffee from Whit’s. I have to say that the coffee from there makes everyone take pride in their community and say hi to each other in the morning. Very nice indeed. Melissa is traveling all over the state these next two days for site visits so she has the good car. I have to go get new tires on the old one today. Money I don’t want to spend, but have to.

Nice Bottle of Wine

Melissa and I just had dinner and enjoyed a nice bottle of Merlot that she got me a couple of months back. Wine is a nice gift by the way since usually you get to enjoy it too. Anyways it was a Woodvale Estate Merlot from California and it was very nice indeed; tasted just like a nice Merlot should. It was complex with many different fruits when it first hits your month and then a nice smooth finish. I read somewhere that nice California Merlots almost have a black tea/cigar box quality and I think I have to agree.

Tuesday Farmers Market

Melissa and I just got back from the Granville Tuesday farmers market. Lots of good things, but we already had corn, cucumber, squash and tomatoes so all we needed were some potatoes and a sweet onion. Now we need to cook something delicious with all this. I was thinking of making a homemade salsa since I also bought some peppers. Anyone have any good recipes? We also found the Pizza Pi Company, with delicious sauces and crusts!

First Dinner in Granville

Last night Melissa and I cooked our first dinner in Granville together. We got tomatoes from one of my volunteers (thank you Phyllis) and we got great mozzarella down at Jungle Jims the day before so we decided to make a tomatoes and mozzarella salad with balsamic vinaigrette. We also got a nice steak from Jungle Jims that we cooked and some red potatoes that we roasted in the oven with sea salt and rosemary. All and all the meal turned out great. The steak got a little overcooked, but that was mainly because we discovered that even the smallest amount of smoke sets off the fire alarm here so we had to talk to the fire chief (nice guy) while cooking. After dinner we went to WHITS for some frozen custard. Delicious!

Sunday at IKEA

Well Melissa has started to move in to the Rose House next to Denison Campus, where she will live for the next year while she works as an AmeriCorps Vista. The House is beautiful, but her apartment is a little small, really just a tiny bed room and a little living room. To do the most with the space Melissa and I decided to go down to IKEA to get the sleeper sofa SOLSTA. As always when you go to IKEA you buy more than you first planed, but I think we got some good deals. First we enjoyed a 99 cent breakfast with free coffee. Very tasty. After that Erik ran to Aisle 38 Bin 24 to get the last of the Solsta sleeper sofas, but once he got there he saw eight of them so it wasn’t necessary to get up quite that early in the morning. At IKEA we also got two very nice rugs, I am especially a fan of HULDA VILSE . We also got the nice computer table DAVE and some nice silver lanterns and buckets that we might create center pieces with. Before the day was over we also visited JUNGLE JIMSfor some international food and of course enjoyed 20 meatballs at IKEA. On the way back we did not stop at the Outlet Mall at Jeffersonville, let’s be honest neither one of us need more clothes.