Comments for Talking to the Owl http://owlmountain.com/blog3 Tim Burns personal weblog. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:48:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 Comment on by Mike Clark http://owlmountain.com/blog3/2008/07/13/58/#comment-1845 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:21:07 +0000 http://owlmountain.com/blog3/2008/07/13/58/#comment-1845 Hey Tim and Family, Congrats on the big move. The house looks cool. The property... awesome! Y'all have come a long way from a small flat on Moorlands in the Lou. We're excited for you. We still live next door and are about to experience the first step to empty nesting. Ben is off to Carnegie Mellon to study engineering. Matthew begins high school, following in his bro's footsteps to SLUH. Cath continues to do the art directing and designing gig, and I am still the union steward of the River Rat Union. If you need any rain barrels for your place let me know. :) I've plucked about 2 dozen good barrels (non-toxic) out of the rivers this Spring and Summer during our flood season. I fabricated downspout connectors and spigots and installed them on our house and now get 220 gallons of rain water to irrigate with each time it pours. Your babies look beautiful. Hope the work world is treating you right. I love keeping up via the blog. Mike Clark Hey Tim and Family,

Congrats on the big move. The house looks cool. The property… awesome! Y’all have come a long way from a small flat on Moorlands in the Lou. We’re excited for you. We still live next door and are about to experience the first step to empty nesting. Ben is off to Carnegie Mellon to study engineering. Matthew begins high school, following in his bro’s footsteps to SLUH. Cath continues to do the art directing and designing gig, and I am still the union steward of the River Rat Union. If you need any rain barrels for your place let me know. :) I’ve plucked about 2 dozen good barrels (non-toxic) out of the rivers this Spring and Summer during our flood season. I fabricated downspout connectors and spigots and installed them on our house and now get 220 gallons of rain water to irrigate with each time it pours.

Your babies look beautiful. Hope the work world is treating you right. I love keeping up via the blog.

Mike Clark

]]> Comment on by christie burns http://owlmountain.com/blog3/2008/07/13/58/#comment-1820 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:10:59 +0000 http://owlmountain.com/blog3/2008/07/13/58/#comment-1820 Tim Your new house is beautiful. Congratulations to both of you. It must feel great to have a wonderful new home for your growing family. I hope you are digging out from the boxes. Looking forward to seeing you sometime soon. Christie Tim
Your new house is beautiful.

Congratulations to both of you. It must feel great to have a wonderful new home for your growing family.

I hope you are digging out from the boxes.

Looking forward to seeing you sometime soon.

Christie

]]> Comment on by tito http://owlmountain.com/blog3/2008/06/22/55/#comment-1691 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:35:20 +0000 http://owlmountain.com/blog3/2008/06/22/55/#comment-1691 Hi Andy, thanks for commenting on my blog. I can empathize with your nervousness about moving to a place unseen. Six years ago we moved from St. Louis, Missouri here to Rhode Island. For the most part, sight unseen. The first year we live in Providence on Eastside. It was kind of the hip, college neighborhood near Brown University. We lived there in an apartment and joined the community boating center. Growing up in Colorado, and living in the Mountain West and Midwest all my life. I'd never sailed before in my life and it was fun learning learning to sail. We couldn't afford the east side, so we started looking around for other town to live in. I am also an avid mountain biker, and I'd been riding my mountain bike in Lincoln Woods. We bought a little house just outside the entrance of the park. It was really great, because I could just ride out my door into the woods. This year we were thinking about moving back to Colorado. I still have a cabin there in the Mountain West. However, we just didn't think we had another cross-country move left in us. We decided to stay in Rhode Island, and start looking for a bigger house, because we were getting tired of sharing a room with the baby. After looking at pretty much every town in Rhode Island, we decided at Lincoln really had everything that we wanted: good schools, convenient location, and semi rural. In the end, we ended up buying a house on the same street that we live on -- Great Road. It is only about 2 miles from where we are now, so this move is really going to be a piece of cake. Good luck on your move. Let me know when you get out here and I'll be happy to show you around. Hi Andy,
thanks for commenting on my blog. I can empathize with your nervousness about moving to a place unseen. Six years ago we moved from St. Louis, Missouri here to Rhode Island. For the most part, sight unseen. The first year we live in Providence on Eastside. It was kind of the hip, college neighborhood near Brown University. We lived there in an apartment and joined the community boating center. Growing up in Colorado, and living in the Mountain West and Midwest all my life. I’d never sailed before in my life and it was fun learning learning to sail.

We couldn’t afford the east side, so we started looking around for other town to live in. I am also an avid mountain biker, and I’d been riding my mountain bike in Lincoln Woods. We bought a little house just outside the entrance of the park. It was really great, because I could just ride out my door into the woods.

This year we were thinking about moving back to Colorado. I still have a cabin there in the Mountain West. However, we just didn’t think we had another cross-country move left in us. We decided to stay in Rhode Island, and start looking for a bigger house, because we were getting tired of sharing a room with the baby.

After looking at pretty much every town in Rhode Island, we decided at Lincoln really had everything that we wanted: good schools, convenient location, and semi rural. In the end, we ended up buying a house on the same street that we live on — Great Road. It is only about 2 miles from where we are now, so this move is really going to be a piece of cake.

Good luck on your move. Let me know when you get out here and I’ll be happy to show you around.

]]> Comment on by Andy Ashton http://owlmountain.com/blog3/2008/06/22/55/#comment-1687 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:31:57 +0000 http://owlmountain.com/blog3/2008/06/22/55/#comment-1687 I stumbled across your blog via Flickr, where I was looking for everyday pictures of life in Lincoln, RI. My family and I are moving there this summer, if/when we can sell our house out of state. The first thing I read here was this poem, which is strikingly similar to what we're experiencing right now. It's a tough change, more-so when we know so little about the place we're moving to. It is comforting to see another family seemingly well-adjusted in the area. Great poem. Thanks! I stumbled across your blog via Flickr, where I was looking for everyday pictures of life in Lincoln, RI. My family and I are moving there this summer, if/when we can sell our house out of state. The first thing I read here was this poem, which is strikingly similar to what we’re experiencing right now. It’s a tough change, more-so when we know so little about the place we’re moving to. It is comforting to see another family seemingly well-adjusted in the area. Great poem. Thanks!

]]> Comment on by tito http://owlmountain.com/blog3/2008/06/22/55/#comment-1683 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:09:22 +0000 http://owlmountain.com/blog3/2008/06/22/55/#comment-1683 Thanks Christie. I will take you up on that, and I'm sure the kids will love seeing their cousins. Since I know that you'll be back in mid July, I'll plan the first of our housewarming parties after then. By the way, the poem end this response were both done with voice recognition software. What fun it is to simply talk to your computer. Thanks Christie. I will take you up on that, and I’m sure the kids will love seeing their cousins. Since I know that you’ll be back in mid July, I’ll plan the first of our housewarming parties after then. By the way, the poem end this response were both done with voice recognition software. What fun it is to simply talk to your computer.

]]>