New Moves

Jane has an out-of-town friend who's under the weather,

so she made him this video to cheer him up.
It cheered us up too!



Meanwhile, 31-week bump-shot. Are we there yet?


Otherwise, we've been up to stuff like this:


The den sofa got a makeover thanks to hot new pillows...
Rooster fabric designed by our very own Ambriel Floyd Bostic:
(and pillows sewn by Coco, natch)


Hopeful for big happenings on the home-improvement
front in the next week or so. Before & After shots to come.
In the meantime, focus is on Halloween decorations
for the porch and costume for Janebug.
Get Well Liam!
xo

Titans of Moravia

The heat has broken, oddly, with it our spirits. Mom's sick. Dad's ready to be a carpenter. Jane is wearing socks with slippers, a t-shirt dress, no pants and is harassing neighbors from the porch. She's ready for the porch to be terrifying, and is not happy about not having the supplies to get here immediately. My lunch budget has been re-purposed for pumpkin purchases.

Been on the road for ages. Last weekend, WFHS 20th reunion. Nuts. Moutos and Stabes:

KP and Pugh, admiring the hardware on the deck of some bar that shouldn't ever exist on a street in Winston I didn't know existed.



The Phan.


The O-line.


McG / Boyer, late night in the hotel lobby.


Peabody / Sherman. Peabody can bench 4 Hundo now.



Mike Cobbler. Lucky strike.


That is Chad Sanderson. Did not see that one coming.



The Hendrix clan, Pepperidge original settlers.


I actually went to Old Salem.

The old house on Deverow, hasn't been painted since I painted it.




And, my accommodations at the Village Inn of Clemmons. That's horse blood, everywhere.


Miss this stuff.


Les Savy Fav, Mohawk, Austin.



Happy birthday Hawes!


And a few from Marfa, some weeks back. That's Robert Plant. 6'1", still got it.







Here's an LZ special, bizarre.

The Godparents are Parents!

Big news this week....

The Godfather became a father:
Haddie Bostic, 9/30/11

and The Godmother became a mother:
Maggie Melia, 10/6/11

Congratulations to Hawes & Ambriel and to Lissy & Mike!
We love you, W+A+J

A tweener

I just got back from Marfa, this time, the El Cosmico Festival of Beer and Other Fried Stuff. It was extraordinary. Took about a bushel of pictures, so for next post.

In the meantime, the other news gone unreported.

More ACL action -- in no or random order. This is headliner ARCADE FIRE somewhere around the last tune. Confession, I'm not into these guys on account of their terrible clothes and drama class pageantry. But they put on a hell of a show. Pleased we can claim them.

Broken Social Scene, figure one of their last shows. Brilliantly bad outfits.



SHINER event, Tuba at my table.


Cap'n Nirav. I didn't have the stones to wear the jersey.



Everytime the Saints Came Marching in, she plunged.



Behind me, Fleet Foxes.



JB, swamp machine.



Friday post show, OBITS. They borrowed my amp.



My buddy Alex from work opened, HEX DISPENSERS.


Jane in separates.



THATS COACH, Dripping Springs. When he thanked the help, I made the sign of the cross.



And, more evidence that TX BBQ is somewhere between egg rolls and Cincinnati Chili on the order of good things.

Les Miz

Welcome to the 3rd trimester.

I'm not gonna lie, this one has not been easy.
I haven't trusted Austin to get me on film, but realized I'd be disappointed not to have any photographic evidence of this pregnancy... so there you have it.
27 weeks.

Jane specifically asked me to make the following video....
"so I can show it to my baby sister when she pops out
to teach her how to dance."
OK.

Otherwise, lots going on at the house. Bookshelves being built, furniture hauled cross country, bed being made, things being upholstered, slipcovered, spray-painted, and otherwise imagined, reimagined and "Pinterested". Once things are presentable, we'll post evidence of all our progress. All this homemaking at least distracts from the pregnancy woes. Well, sometimes.


Current state of new baby's room:
I think she's gonna love it!

Here are a couple of shots from this past weekend. ACL music festival here. Austin had work involvement Fri-Sun, so we had to visit him on-site to see him. Love these nerds.




And Austin got to actually go see some rock at the festival too:

Jane's top baby names to date:

Canary Berry
Matilda Vanilla
Delia
Delilah
Smash Potato Yellowy Cake McKenna
("that's a family name, Mom")