I may as well join the party, My full name is supposed to be Ronald (Named after my father, who was named after the landlord's son. Who was a gimp.), but I was born in the south and of course they fucked up the spelling of my name on my birth certificate. So officially (At least by my birth certificate) my name is supposed to be Roland, except every other piece of ID identifies me as "Ronald." Even as a kid Ronald or even Ron just sounded like an old guy's name, so I always went by "Ronnie", at least up until my mid thirties, when it hit me that Ronnie was all well and good when I was a ne'er do well hell raiser, but since I was trying my damnedest to actually be a functioning adult I decided to suck it up and go with Ron. Even with my deciding to be an adult and have my name reflect being an adult, to most people that have known me for years I'm still Ronnie. Sort of on topic: Someone mentioned the name Kris. I used to play guitar with a guy named Kris who had insane parents. When he was 14 his parents thought he still needed a baby sitter. He knocked her up.
A few weeks back I'd posted that I'd become enamored with old coins, particularly those before 1812. I just dig the history, and the date 1812 sounded like a good cut off point what with the War of 1812 and all. Anyways, in the interim I've added a few half dollar pieces to my collection: I love history and if these coins could talk I would love to hear their stories.
First sail of the season. Glad the kid made me do it. I was wrapped up in the long list of crap I need to do, but didn't realize how much I needed the break.
I have the most generic Christian names ever, I even got baptised a second time when my younger sister got done. Mathew James, the only difference is it's one T but it's only now that I've started to be introduced as Mat and that people even use it, for most of my life I've gone by one of a half dozen nicknames.
Aw, I hope your kiddo had fun. We got our sun today when we weeded the rock beds today for hours. Just put a dent in it, the area is huge and grass is growing all up through the landscaping fabric and was a bitch to remove. I don't use the apparently insane amount of herbicides the last homeowner did, and really don't want to... so plans to tear out the fabric are being discussed. I'd love to replace the lawn with native clovers and put native flowers and shrubs in the beds. Always another project...
I don't do herbicide either, I don't mind pulling weeds. Our last house looked pretty wild, the people us before were big into landscaping. All around the yard were old growth ivy and huge old bushes. It was a ton of work just keep everything from overtaking the walkways and yard. Not much grass to mow, but lots of weedwackin and pruning. It looked like a barely tamed jungle. I liked the look, but I wouldn't do that much landscaping here. I will use insecticide on and near the house. I try to use the least toxic methods as possible, though.
I have posted this before but my first name is Raymond(my mom's brothers name) and my middle name is James(my dad's brothers name). My last name is a 5 letter German last name, i can easily see how some people can mispronounce it, but how the vast majority pronounce it is mind boggling.
Natale here. Always liked my name - not too common, even though there was another Natalie in my grade school whose dad was a doctor and of course she was more popular. Definitely not a fan of spelling it Natalee or Nataleigh. There's an attorney here who swears my name is spelled with an "h" like Nathalie Got a ton of yardwork done this weekend - mulched all the beds, plants a few perennials, put some grass seed down. The front yard is looking SO green now, but all the little weeds that are super green will inevitably turn brown by summer, so we're trying to mitigate that by seeding THE FUCK out of the yard and hope the grass can choke out the weeds. Here's hoping it works!