The title of my blogs (Ultra and Classic) comes from the street our house is located on, Washington Avenue Extension. I came up with the name when I built my first website for our wedding, which we hosted in the backyard. I didn't really care for the name, but it was short and referenced the place, so I went with it. Two years later when I started blogging in 2005 I re-registered the URL and it has worked out well for us.
But now we're selling the house.
Is it odd to name your blog after a place that is no longer yours? Should the WashAveX™ brand be carried forward? Are these important questions to anyone but me?
We haven't sold the house yet, and I don't know when it will actually happen. But in the meantime I am experimenting with a new blog (WashAveX Refugee) and I plan to fully phase out Classic (not because of the name change, but because it is expensive for no good reason....Typepad is too focused on small business).
While we are very happy about our plans to sell the house, and we know it is the right move for us, we didn't always plan it this way. For example, in August of 2003, on the day we were married, we buried a time capsule full of items brought by our wedding guests. The capsules (we had to use two to fit everything) would be opened on our five year anniversary. Per Rick's instructions, we had to bury the capsules five feet down, below the frost line. At my bachelor party I had 12 drunk guys labor all day digging that hole. As a side note, when you ask your friends to dig a deep hole, you quickly find out which ones have bad backs and which ones brought a really nice shirt that day.
With winter coming on we didn't want to get caught selling the house with our capsules buried beneath impenetrable frozen ground, so on Saturday, Jason and I decided to try and dig them up.
Jason is a good digger, and we made fast progress. It wasn't long before we came across the first artifact from the dig.
It took me a little while to recollect why a Yankees cap was in the hole, sitting on top of the first capsule. I think we had decided to bury the Yankees, and I'm proud that we did over the last four years.
It took about 8 hours of drunken labor to create the hole, but the recovery took about an hour. Having the largest rocks already excavated was a big help. At last Jason stood triumphant above the hole.
We didn't open the capsules. We still plan to wait until our five year anniversary to do that, so in the meantime we stored them in a safe spot. The last thing we did before returning the dirt to the hole was to rebury that Yankees cap. We don't want their luck to change.
Originally posted on palmer.vox.com
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