Hi Neighbor

This is the letter that we put in our neighbor's mailbox yesterday:

September 30, 2008

Dear Neighbor,

You may not realize that your dog has been barking most all of the night for the last few weeks. Our bedroom window faces the dog, and most nights the barking keeps us both awake. I’m not sure of the reason for the barking or the solution, but we would appreciate anything you can do to limit the volume of the barking so close to our bedroom.

Thanks

Alex & Lettie

Awesome...

We left out the suggestions that we have been coming up with at 3 a.m. like: cut his chain and let him free, stick a shock collar on his ass or put some peanut butter on the end of a shotgun barrel. (I'm just kidding! Y'all know we love animals!)

poor thing

Nothing Going On Here

Today we built a raised bed for a garden.  We started to get the itch when we were thinking about which Fall plants to pick.  I don't think we've decided on any plants, but we have built an 8' x 16' raised bed out of landscape timbers.  It doesn't have any dirt yet, but that's a minor detail for a garden.  Here's a picture:

We haven't had a chicken update lately.  They must be full grown now, since they are surprisingly large.  Dorothy and Rose are biguns.  All the chickens cluck and Jackson loves it.  I can't hold them anymore since the coop has to many escape routes, but they are friendly on the other side of the hardware cloth.  Here are some chicken pictures:

We had to call off a trip to Birmingham when we were about halfway there this weekend.  We missed Meredith's birthday party, and Jackson was devastated.  We will have to make the trip sometime soon.  Sorry Jerrod & Susan, you didn't get out of talking about how good Alabama is at football.

Jackson had 0 accidents today in his Thomas underwear.