Bonus Picture Sunday

In an effort to (finally) finish unpacking, I unwrapped a lot of framed photos to start working out where to hang them. Barley spent hours entertaining himself with the discarded wrapping paper.

Cause Determined of Internet Shutdown

Dorchester - Around 1:30 PM a mysterious event occurred at the Chocolate Factory - sudden loss of internet. There was recycling of modems and routers, restarting of desktops and laptops, and leaching off the neighbor's unprotected wi-fi to live chat with tech support. Comcast pinged the modem and determined that it was fine, and the problem was the third party router- which they can't troubleshoot.

Pete took matters into his own hands. One more recycle on the router, and still nothing was working. Pete plugged directly into the modem to find that no - there was nothing coming from the modem. The only light on was the "standby" light. After closer investigation, Pete found a button on top of the modem labeled "standby" and decided to see what would happen if he pressed it. Lo and behold - the internet was back in action.

The cause? None other than our beloved Barley, who had been spotted near the scene of the crime just prior to time of the lost connection.

Barley and the Dots

I bought these cool magnets the other day because we have a metal door now and it's boring. Also, it's a handy place to hang things we need to remember to mail (Netflix, bills, etc...) so we remember to grab them on our way out. Or leave each other love notes. You know, because we're so romantic. Turns out that Barley's a fan. He's generally pretty quiet, but he's started making more noise now (although VERY quiet - nowhere near Bill volume!) and a few times since I put these up he's sat at the door, meowed at the magnets, and then attacked. Anyone want to start a poll on how long before the gets the bottom ones knocked off?

I call this "Danging With Pete"

Attack!

Barley is not amused.

Sleeping on Pete

Barley fell asleep half on Pete and half on the couch.

Barley's Boa

We bought this green feathery toy for Barley because we decided that he needs
toys to entertain himself while we're asleep. Every time he plays with this one, he tears a little chunk of green off. Sometimes he eats it, and sometimes you can see little green fluffs if you look closely at our carpet!