http://journal.elmillerdesign.com I should be doing something more productive. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:02:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of my goals this summer, in addition to getting married and getting a new puppy, was to remodel the laundry room in the garage.  My friend Dave offered to help, and we thought it would be a fairly simple project of replacing some water damaged paneling and flooring.  As ... http://journal.elmillerdesign.com/2008/07/21/garage-repair/ Last night while grilling some garden burgers, I didn't notice that a wrapper to a slice of processed cheese had blown off the table. It didn't take long for our new puppy, Hurley, to find it. While chasing him around the yard to get it back, I couldn't ... http://journal.elmillerdesign.com/2008/07/05/i-can-has-cheez-wrapper/ We went to the King County Adopt-A-Thon today and came home with an new puppy.  He is a mix of a Labrador Retriever and something else that the rescue kennel was not sure about.  We haven't settled on a name yet, but so far we like Hurley, Wilson, Caesar, Gordy, ... http://journal.elmillerdesign.com/2008/06/21/new-puppy/ So far this year we have had about one day of Spring-like weather. It is currently hailing and snowing as I write this. Here are some pictures from yesterday's snow storm. [gallery] Notes: this gallery was created with the new "Gallery" feature in Wordpress 2.5. It doesn't look my ... http://journal.elmillerdesign.com/2008/04/19/april-snowstorm/ We have finished uploading and captioning photos from our summer trip to Europe. We returned home with over 2,000 photos but we've selected about 400 of our favorite photos to post. This was a very time consuming process, but it is always fun to look back. The ... http://journal.elmillerdesign.com/2007/09/15/europe-photos-link/ I had been to Rome once before, but it is one of those amazing cities you can visit repeatedly. On our first evening there, we did a walk-through of some famous sites such as the Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, and the Spanish Steps. All of the sites were almost ... http://journal.elmillerdesign.com/2007/08/02/rome-harry-home/ Our trip continued to be extremely warm, but we did find one solution in Florence- 3 square meals of GELATO! Along with the Renaissance, Florence managed to elevate ice cream to an art form. We tried quite a few flavors, such as zuppa inglese, tiramisu, mille folia, stracciatella, ... http://journal.elmillerdesign.com/2007/07/31/florence-land-gelato/ We spent two nights in Venice in a tiny, and I mean tiny, hotel room. However, the room had the redeeming quality that it was on the Grand Canal with a view of the Accademia Bridge. Considering that there are only three bridges that cross the Grand ... http://journal.elmillerdesign.com/2007/07/30/a-tiny-room-with-a-grand-view/ We arrived on the Italian Riveria to a flood of heat. We were a littled worried that our train would skip over the town we were staying in, Riomaggiore. Fortunately it stopped. I converted my backpack to a roller bag, thinking it would be easier to maneuver the streets. HA! We ... http://journal.elmillerdesign.com/2007/07/30/cinque-terre/ We haven't had Internet access in a while, so here is a quick update on our treck across southern France to connect Barcelona and Italy. It was harder than expected to catch a train out of Barcelona becuase the one we wanted was fully booked. As a result, we didn't ... http://journal.elmillerdesign.com/2007/07/26/southern-france/