Micah Burkette » My House

Tumbling Leaves

Micah — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:19:23 +0000

The leaves are still falling in my neighborhood, even though they starting turning color back in early October. I think it might have to do with so little wind this year.

My neighbor, Josh, has twice as many trees in his yard as I do. His whole back yard is shaded with trees, as I only have about 6 or 7 that I have to mow around. The problem with having so many tees is having to rake up all the leaves in the fall.

Today, both Joshand I were out there raking leaves to get them bagged before the trash truck comes around in the morning. If I miss the trash truck, I either have to stash the bagged leaves for another week or drive them all the way across town tot he recycling center that accepts leaves and yard waste.

An Extra Hour Tonight

Micah — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:22:44 +0000

Tonight we all get an extra hour of sleep, thanks to Daylight Savings Time coming to an end. I always set my clocks back when the late night news comes on, as I am rarely up at 2:00 am to do the official change back. I figure that if I’m asleep I don’t know when it’s 2:00 am anway.

Pets

Micah — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:29:45 +0000

We currently have too many cats. It wasn’t planned, it just happened. My wife and I had two cats, Oliver and Sugaree, that are more like our babies than pets. A friend asked if we could “babysit” her two cats while she was in between homes, and she hasn’t retrieved them! Four cats is a lot. We have multiple cat boxes and way too many cat food bowls around the house. They also make too much noise at night while I am trying to sleep! I am calling the friend and asking her to come back for her cats soon! I can’t take this much longer!!

Steak for Dinner

Micah — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:19:44 +0000

If you want to have a steak for dinner, where do you go?

I like to grill steaks at home. I would buy the best steak I could find at Sam’s Club and take it home to cook it just right.

But if I had to go out to a restaurant to eat the best steak, I have a lot of choices here. The Morton’s is really good but a little uppity. I think that Longhorn actually has the best atmosphere, the best menu and the best bar.

So my pick is Longhorn. What’s yours?

It’s Not Running

Micah — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:06:50 +0000

Got a knock on the door about my old car sitting in the back of the house. You can see it from the street if you are looking real hard. But most people drive by my house so fast they don’t notice anything in my back yard. so it creeps me out to think someone was driving so slow down my street and looking for stuff in people’s backyards.

So this guy wanted to know if I was interested in selling my old car. And I’m not really interested. If I can scrape together an extra $2,500 I want to get the transmission repaired and drive it again. So I told him no and made sure he drove off and didn’t linger. Now that I think of it, I’m going to put a flood light with a motion detector on the corner of the roof. I would not be surprised if this guy comes back later an night to do something evil.

Military Planes

Micah — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:57:24 +0000

Walked my dog and noticed a strange sound in the sky. Now, I live pretty close to the big airport and hear jets all the time. But this sound was different. So I looked up and saw this weird plane hovering overhead, then it shot off and disappeared. No, I’m not talking about an alien ship. I’m just saying, this was no Southwest Airline jet. This was a military plane, an Osprey. They are like a combination jet and helicopter.

So, next thing I know, there comes another, but this one doesn’t hover over my house, it just goes streaking across the sky. And then three more follow along pretty close to it. So that was pretty cool. I’ve never seen that before.

Extra Laundry

Micah — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:40:34 +0000

One household chore I don’t like and put off until I HAVE to do it is: laundry. I don’t know why I can’t stand to wash clothes. I think it might have more to do with the folding and putting them away than the actual washing.

So I got a whole lot of laundry done yesterday. Spent hours doing it. Even washed all the towels and the sheets and comforter. So today I get home and found that one of the dogs puked on the bed. So now I have to take off all the sheets and the comforter and wash them ALL again today.

Don’t know why the dog puked. That worries me more than having to wash the sheets again.

Bugs and Bees

Micah — Sun, 29 May 2011 21:12:54 +0000

This summer is going to be very buggy. I can tell already. The bugs are everywhere – in all shapes and sizes. We have the cicada invasion this year. We have mosquitoes. We have black wasps, red wasps, bumblee bees, honey bees, sweat bees and yellow jackets. No wonder I have a hundred birds in and around my yard every day – it’s like a huge aviary buffet.

Old Trophies

Micah — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 04:54:47 +0000

Last time I visited my mom’s house, she gave me a big box of stuff that she found in the garage. It was a bunch of old model car kits, some old spray paint cans, and all my old baseball trophies.

It’s kind of cool to see the trophies again. They meant a lot to me when I was playing Little League. I don’t have any place to put them out in my house right now, but I might go buy a wall shelf and put it up in the living room to keep my trophies on.

New Neighbors

Micah — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:47:05 +0000

A few houses down from my place has been for rent for a while. I think they were asking too much money for rent. With the bad economy, people can’t afford as much in rent as they used to. But yesterday I saw a U-Haul truck in the driveway, so I went down there to say hello. I guess the owners finally found someone who can afford their house.

My new neighbors are a nice young lady, Joann, and her boyfriend. Joann was there with her mom and her boyfriend was at work, so I didn’t get to meet him yet. Her mom was real nice, too. I’m glad we have some nice people about my age moving into the ‘hood.