We are approaching the fall season and, of course, Joe encounters a skunk. It happened last night right before bed. I was brushing my teeth when I heard him make his alert, what-the-fuck-are-you-doing-in-my-yard, bark. And I just knew it. I ran to the door and he was already trying to rub it off in the grass. I saw the little bastard skunk too, zig-zagging through the garden on his way to the back and under the shed.

I’m an adamant animal lover, but last night I wanted to strangle that skunk. We put Joe in the garage for the night, as usual, and dealt with his peroxide/baking soda bath this morning. I don’t think the skunk got him too badly, or I bathed him well, because he doesn’t smell too much right now. But you can still tell when you get close to him.

So this makes it: Oct 2004, Sep 2005, Oct 2006 and now August 2007. I sure hope I’m not linking to this post next year. I probably won’t since we’re moving in the next month or so and he won’t be wandering free in the yard. *sigh*

For those of you that personally know me, this may be of interest. We’re moving to the city!

Last month Steve started working at a new job in SOMA (South of Market) and so we officially decided it was time to make the big move. I started looking at places on Craigslist about three weeks ago. We’re looking in a few specific neighborhoods: Noe Valley, Mission Dolores, Hayes Valley, Cole Valley, North Beach (maybe), and Haight. In addition to our picky-ness about where we want to move we also have two other specific criteria; we have the dog and we MUST have a garage (for our precious motorcycles). So needless to say, it’s a slow search.

Our landlord has been kind enough (after a lot of painful back and forth) to give us until October 15th. For a while we thought we only had until September 15th, which was giving me much stress. I won’t bore you with the details of our arguments, but she’s quite a moron. Anyway, I’m relieved to have the extra time. Hopefully it will allow us to hold out for just the right place. I figure I can start panicking around the end of September.

So wish us luck! Because so far our choices have been slim.

"spiderdog, spiderdog… he can do what a spiderdog does…"

Last months logo was a little bit easier than the June logo with about 18 guesses and one winner - Heather DeSessa! I tried to make this month a little bit harder again, let’s see what you think of the August logo.