Woolsey Life

That’s right, you are reading that right. Many of you have heard by now but this is why I have been so slow in blogging lately. I have felt like there isn’t much to talk about other than this! We have been waiting to post this until our families and close friends knew. Jen & Kris, sorry you had to find out by reading my blog but we tried calling you TONS of times.

So, that is the Woolsey’s big news for 2008. The baby is due anywhere between Dec 27 and Jan 12. I am fuzzing the line because I want to think that this will not be a Christmas baby. Christy is feeling well still, a little illness at nights but the days are fine.  She sleeps more on her days off too. We are excited and every once in a while ask ourselves what we were thinking but its here now, enter ‘Parenthood’.

Last night we had our last birthday celebration for Christy’s 30th. We went out with her oldest sister and her husband and they took us to The Shout House in Downtown San Diego. It was fun, its a bar with a few musicians that perform improv’ requests from the audience. The main theme is dueling pianos and they have a lot of fun with the crowd. Even more so as the night goes on the crowd has had some time to marinate in various liquors. Christy put in a request for Eye of the Tiger and they got her up on stage to do the Rocky montage, shadow boxing and jumping rope. Then they sang happy birthday for her and gave her a couple of bumper stickers.

It was a fun night and I would recommend to anybody that is into musical improv’ and is comfortable with a little debauchery. I do suggest that if you go you keep in mind that the later it gets the crazier people get.

Well, for those of you that aren’t in my neck of the woods, winter is starting to show its face here and if you haven’t lived here all that means is that my summer blooming plants are starting to go out of season. I haven’t posted in a little over a week and I have to admit I haven’t really had anything profound to say and I have been bogged down with the completely uneventful. But today I took a few minutes to walk around the yard and make a mental list of things that are coming up. The first and easiest thing to do is to start trimming back the ‘mums and some of the other flowers along the fence line. They are still blooming some but in a few more days they will be calling it a season I think. Following that we need to trim the grapes. Last year we did a so-so job trimming and we got awesome grapes. So we are going gonzo this year and while we are at it we are going to re-design the arbor so it won’t drop so many grapes on the wood deck. Also, a couple of my potted plants aren’t doing well lately. I blame myself for that one, I have unfortunately neglected them over the last few weeks. I have a Sago palm sitting in my former tomato garden and I am going to something cool with that, but for now my goal is to make sure it has no problem staying alive. The last big thing is really big. We have decided after much deliberation and conflicting advice from friends to remove the fig tree. Some of you might be saying, ‘No! Don’t do it!’ but trust me, you don’t live here and have the hundreds of figs rotting on your lawn and tracked in by the dog. The irony is that we don’t even like figs! And this tree is big, real big. I have measured it out, I can take that tree out and put a 12′x14′ shed back there (which I desperately need) and plant a different tree between it and the lawn and still have the foliage cover I have now. Its a win-win situation if you aren’t the fig tree…

So that is it for now, lots of work to do and at the end of the winter there might even be some sod coming my way. We’ll see how the lawn and the bank account hold up to the tree removal and the shed.

For those of you that don’t recognize this, its my front yard. Last night was the first time I have been home on a Halloween night in at least 5 years. I am normally at some Christian Halloween alternative event because I am working or hanging out with friends with kids. This year, I knew that none of those things were going to happen and Christy was working so I had to come up with something. I could find somewhere to go, turn off all the lights and hang out in my office, or I could put myself out there and meet the neighborhood. So, in a last minute decision I ran off to my local Wal Mart to find a DVD of Charlie Brown’s Great Pumpkin (a Halloween classic).

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The winds are changing in San Diego County and that means that the firestorms are being downgraded to fires. As the Santa Anna winds die down we are seeing more of an on-shore breeze which unfortunately has turned our little oasis of clean air here into a smoky, ashy mess. Its good though because that means that the fires are being turned back on themselves and that they will have no more fuel to burn. The fire of course took its toll on a lot of people

A note about what I have been seeing on CNN: I have been seeing comment after comment from viewers and reporters saying that the level of care at Qualcomm stadium is so much better than the care following the events after Katrina for those residents. People are suggesting that because San Diego is full of ‘rich, white Republicans’ they are receiving a much higher level of care. If you are an evacuee at Qualcomm you might be kind of stuck camping out but there are nurses from the community volunteering their time, there are people that can’t go to work so they are hanging out distributing food. There are even local bands and entertainers there that are volunteering their time to keep kids entertained. All of this being said it should be noted that most of what is happening at Qualcomm has nothing to do with federal aid, it has to do with local organizations being organized and well staffed with local volunteers. Many of the volunteers are people that have been evacuated themselves.

So just for the record, San Diego is a motivated town and they are working hard to help their own community…Stay Classy San Diego!