What we did this summer
This has been a very fun, very busy summer; and we're still catching up on our blog posts to share some of what we've done. More to come soon!
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historic marker in Rodanthe, NC
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN LOUISVILLE, KY
Welcome to our blog!
We're Kyle & Lisa Barnett, and we hope this site will help us to keep in touch with our friends in Texas, Indiana, and all over the U.S.
We're now settled in Louisville, KY, where Kyle is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Communication at Bellarmine University, and Lisa is an Accessibility Consultant and User Experience Designer at Humana.
We have a band, which we started in Texas with 3 friends, called Hitchhike. Initially performing here and in Indianapolis as a two-piece, we're back up and running now with Roxell on keys and Sean on bass. We've been playing out a bit, so keep us on your radar!
Enjoy,
Kyle & Lisa
We're now settled in Louisville, KY, where Kyle is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Communication at Bellarmine University, and Lisa is an Accessibility Consultant and User Experience Designer at Humana.
We have a band, which we started in Texas with 3 friends, called Hitchhike. Initially performing here and in Indianapolis as a two-piece, we're back up and running now with Roxell on keys and Sean on bass. We've been playing out a bit, so keep us on your radar!
Enjoy,
Kyle & Lisa
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our cat, Macey
This is the front of our home in Louisville. Cute, huh? The partially-up window shade on the left is for our cat, Macey, who likes to sit on that window sill and taunt the neighborhood cats. The house was built around 1940 and is a classic cottage.
A gift from our landlord, these concrete pyramids are everywhere--keeping people from driving on each other's lawns, apparently, since there are few curbs in town. Many houses have a line of these along the street border of their front yard. Also, there are dozens of 6-10 block "cities" within Louisille, each little neighborhood proudly welcoming you with signage that says, for example "Welcome to the City of Wellington."
This building in downtown Louisville has a HUGE mural on its side of "The Colonel," who was actually a family friend of Lisa's kin. The other mural in the picture depicts Diane Sawyer, Kentucky ex-pat. Other famous Louisvillians: Muhammad Ali (he has a street and a cultural center downtown in his name) and Hunter S. Thompson (no street as of yet).
The official symbol of the city: the fleur de lis, a reminder of Louisville's French heritage. We assume their influence is responsible for the many Catholic schools in town as well.
This is a picture of Louisville's skyline that greets visitors at the airport. We initially saw it Oct 30th, when we flew back into town from Austin. We thought it was a Halloween-themed ad of some sort, but then we realized that the "dripping blood" was supposed to be wax seals on bourbon bottles--as in Maker's Mark.
A tyipcal home in "Old Louisville." This city has a huge stock of beautiful Victorian, Arts and Crafts and Mediterranean style homes, and many of them are only inches apart. There are no driveways or garages in these neighborhoods; alleys provide back-access to the properties by car. Such an pedestrian-friendly urban plan.
This train is a hallmark of our neighborhood and NEVER blows its horn. Some of the nicest houses in town are right along these tracks, and we ate at a Mexican restaurant next to it that shook when the train passed, but no seemed to mind and we all just started yelling to be heard over it. That's Louisville's version of "funky."
One of the Crescent Hill restaurants we've not been to yet, this place wins points for originality. The signature menu item is "Frickled Pickle Chips."
Some "Lumpia" from Sari Sari, a nearby Filipino restaurant that we love. So far we've had some great meals: Italian, Mediterranean, North African, Thai, Vietnamese, and "Vegetarian," but we dearly miss good Mexican cuisine, and have frequent cravings for breakfast tacos, which haven't made it to Louisville yet.
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