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Thanksgiving

Nov24
2010 Rob Written by Rob

I swear to God, we haven’t abandoned this blog. We’ve just both been extremely busy, juggling a variety of dramas (both client-centric and otherwise) and have shifted a lot of our day-to-day news updating to our Facebook pages. But R&K is still on the air.

My brother comes into town for Thanksgiving tomorrow! It’s been almost a year since we’ve seen him last. Though we talk at least once or twice a week on the phone (and spend quality time playing Bioshock 2 and Red Dead Redemption online), it’s just not the same as being there in person. So if I were to sketch up a list of things to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving 2010, topping the list would be seeing my brother again.

A list of other updates and thanksfulnesses after the jump.
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Posted in Everyday Life, Faith, Family and Friends, House and Yard, Travel, Work

Echoes, Shades and Spirit Hairs

Aug18
2010 Rob Written by Rob

It’s been a long, strange week since Tuck left us. It started with questions that we didn’t want to answer. Tuck’s box – leave it out for now or put it out in the garage? His pill bottles and syringes are still in the bathroom as I write this. It somehow seemed wrong to just come home and start clearing the house of the last of Tuck’s presence.

Echoes and shades surround us. Tuck always had an outsized personality, stubborn and willful, affectionate and troublemaking. On top of that, his medical care over recent years had required all sorts of accommodations and adjustments, adaptations that eventually became ingrained as habits that still persist. The house is full of Tucker ghosts.
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Farewell, Tucker

Aug13
2010 Rob Written by Rob

For me, a new normal came into being a little over five years ago.

I lived in a little apartment in Altamonte Springs, Florida, recently moved back from Tampa after a longer stint away from my hometown than I’d expected. Tampa was often a pretty lonely time, which was a big part of why I adopted a second cat to begin with. The first one – Veruca – was a plea from a friend who had too many animals and needed to rehome one in a single-cat house. After a few months (and many long worked weekends) I told myself that I needed a second cat to keep the first one company. But honestly, it was really more about keeping me company.

Tuck was always trouble. He’d lock himself in the bathroom. Rummage through cabinets, in search of treats. Knock things off desks and tables that got in the way of his happy reclinage. He was way too smart for his own good, and nothing about him was ever according to the manual.
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Posted in Family and Friends

Larry

Jan04
2010 Kristi Written by Kristi

A few weeks ago, we drove out to some family friends and picked up firewood.  They have acres of almonds and walnuts and let us come get firewood, as they can’t possibly burn all they have.  So we loaded up the back of the SUV as full as we could and came home to load the wood rack.  As we unloaded, we came across a few unwelcome visitors, mostly spiders.  But there was one determined hanger-on.

I flipped the backseat down and there he was.  In all his 4 legged, web-footed glory.

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Being the normal girl I am, I screamed a bit and told Rob to “GET IT!!”  The lizard was faster than either of us were and scurried up under the gas pedal where apparently a world of warmth and safety awaited him.  I refused to drive the car until we found him and got him out of the car.

The next morning, we left to pick up Chris at the airport.  I told to Rob in all seriousness,  “If that lizard crawls on me while we’re driving, you better be ready to meet Jesus because we’re both gonna die in a tragic lizard-induced car accident.”  He thought I was joking.  Nope.  Not joking.  HATE. LIZARDS. No sign of the lizard on the way to Sacramento or on the way home but he made a brief appearance that night when we arrived home and went to unload the car.  Chris spotted him in the cargo area of the car and that cursed lizard scampered away to safety to parts unknown.  I hope he’ll send a postcard from wherever he went.

Yesterday, we drove out to Carmel for the afternoon.  We were just driving through Marina when something FLEW up off the floorboard and onto Rob’s lap.  He flinched and it went flying.  I screamed, “WHAT WAS THAT?? THAT better not be that damn lizard!” and pulled the car off the freeway.  We searched for him, trying to scare it toward open doors.  Yes, I am a huge sissy.  We made brief sightings of the lizard and STILL, he has yet to be captured.  He’s been living in our car for 2 weeks  and vanishes.

I GIVE UP, LIZARD.  Now we shall call you Larry and you will be our pet in the car. We now have one very large dog, 2 indoor cats, one outdoor cat that’s not even ours but we feed and shelter in the garage, and a lizard in the car.  However, the lizard can get his own damn food.

Posted in Everyday Life
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