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Easter 2008

This past weekend, we were out visiting the Lowes in Townsend for Easter! We had a great time visiting with Nonni, Grandpa, Corey, and Vicky. We went to church at the TCCUCC and had Easter dinner at the 1761 Old Mill in Westminster (which is incidentally where my parents had dinner when they got engaged!).

Catherine and Grandpa
Catherine and Grandpa

Catherine's dress
Catherine’s dress

I thought you might enjoy some good old fashioned gratuitous Catherine pics! You can see the rest of the pics from this weekend here.


By Peter | 03.26.2008 | 09:20 PM | Permalink | Categories: Family, Friends, Occasions, Photography | No Comments

Thirty Days: Day Eleven

bday!
Ken’s birthday observed today. More pics here.


By Peter | 03.02.2008 | 10:47 PM | Permalink | Categories: Occasions, Photography, Thirty Days | No Comments

Valentine’s Day Dinner

cafe

Catherine and her Papa had a nice Valentine’s Dinner date last night and they were nice enough to let me come along! The three of us went to the Daily Harvest Cafe for some delicious sandwiches. At first we had a table for three, but Catherine decided she would rather sit in the comfy chairs- alone. with Papa. So I stayed at our table while she and Peter went off to color by the windows.

A good time was had by all!


By Rebecca | 02.15.2008 | 10:06 AM | Permalink | Categories: Family, Occasions | 2 Comments

Five Years Of World Wide Wood

I just realized this morning that an important date had passed us by without fanfare. So here it is in belated form:

Five years ago, on February 8 2003, Rebecca announced the birth of the website that you’ve come to know and love, World Wide Wood. prwdot.org itself had been around since November of 2001. At first, prwdot.org was my personal homepage, and then after Rebecca and I got married on 10/26/2002 it became simply a placeholder that redirected the reader to either Rebecca’s website or my website. Since 02/08/2003, we’ve blogged her together on all manner of topics. Our two main goals are to inform our friends and family of the goings-on in our household, and to educate and inform people about the interests and issues that matter to us.

We hope that you, our readers, have enjoyed following us all of these years. For your entertainment, here is a link to an archive of the previous versions of prwdot.org, going back to November 2001. For even more fun, here’s links to archives of some of my even older websites, going back to 1999:

Happy Five Years, and Happy Valentine’s Day!


By Peter | 02.14.2008 | 10:49 AM | Permalink | Categories: Meta, Occasions | No Comments

29 years of BecTasticism

Happy birthday to the best wife a man could hope for, and the best momma a girl could want. Here’s to the woman who keeps the house running smoothly, keeps the kid happy, and keeps us lean, mean and green.

Becky polys the stairs

And let’s not forget, the one who did a killer job polyurethaning (is that a verb?) our stairs! I love you!


By Peter | 01.10.2008 | 07:00 AM | Permalink | Categories: Family, Married Life, Occasions | 8 Comments

Christmas Joys: Family

Nothing about the Christmas season is better than spending it with family. Here are some photos of Christmases past!

grandma and santa catherine  Catherine and gifts christmas

dinner2 keefer quitadamo

The Wood family wishes you a very Merry Christmas!


By Rebecca | 12.25.2007 | 08:24 AM | Permalink | Categories: Occasions | 3 Comments

Christmas Joys: Tomtegubben

Every year there is a small tribe of Tomtegubbes that watch over my Mom’s kitchen. They were always my favorite of her Christmas decorations. I was thrilled last year to find some of my own at Bestemors Scandinavian Shop in Mystic, CT this past summer.

Tomten   Tomten2

I did a little internet searching to find a little more about them. Here’s the wikipedia entry: Tomte.

We didn’t do a whole lot of decorating for Christmas this year but I did make sure that those little guys were up and they have added to my Christmas Cheer. Who else has something that makes them feel especially festive?


By Rebecca | 12.24.2007 | 03:36 PM | Permalink | Categories: Occasions | 1 Comment

Christmas Joys: the Tree

One Christmas many moons ago (four years ago, but who’s counting?) Peter and were spending Christmas in Pennsylvania with his family. It was my first Christmas away from my family and also my first Christmas morning in a hotel. I was feeling a bit melancholy about missing the big tree an ‘home-ness’ of the hotel and during a last minute gift run to the Schuylkill Mall, we decided to buy a little tree.

It was the cheapest tree that K-Mart sold. It was also fiber optic. I’ve had serious mixed feelings over the years about this tree. I typically do not like artificial trees, or light-up branches. It is too small and the branches change color on a too-fast rotation.

BUT-having lived in an apartment for years and not wanting a real tree this year (due to the two ts- travel and toddler) we continue to set up this little tree year after year. I fear it is starting to grow on me.

tree

Still, I miss the pine smell, the cutting of the tree, the vacuuming of the fallen needles, the tucking of a bird’s nest inside and all the other things that come along with having a real tree. There’s always next year’s tree to plan for! How do you trim your trees?


By Rebecca | 12.22.2007 | 11:26 PM | Permalink | Categories: Occasions | 1 Comment

Christmas Joys: Cards

As soon as all the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone I start stalking the mailbox for Christmas cards! Photo cards, homemade, letters, postcards…it doesn’t matter. I love them all. It’s great to hear from friends and family and to have something other than Chinese menus and Bed, Bath and Beyond coupons in the mailbox!

I’ve been hanging up each card we’ve received on the door in the kitchen and they’ve made the room so festive!

card door

I know that sending out Christmas cards is a huge project, but I hope everyone knows that I truly love receiving them and looking at them day after day! They are physical reminders of all who we love (and who love us). Thank you!


By Rebecca | 12.20.2007 | 01:04 PM | Permalink | Categories: Occasions | 1 Comment

20 Years Of Perl

I slacked off yesterday, and forgot to write up a blog post about this, but December 18 marked the 20th birthday of the Perl programming language! Woohoo!

I’ve personally been using Perl for about ten years, and for the past seven years I’ve been using it in my job at Christianbook.com. I love coding in Perl, and I’ve learned how to make it do some really crazy things over the years! I guess you could say that Perl helps me “put bread on the table,” so I owe Larry Wall some thanks for creating such a great language and guiding it through all of these years of development.

Here’s to 20 more great years!


By Peter | 12.19.2007 | 07:28 PM | Permalink | Categories: Code, Geekiness, Occasions, Work | No Comments

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