There’s an ad that pops up in the BlogHer section of the side bar —->
It’s a survey to take sponsored by Ragu. There’s a boy in the picture in the ad looking at his food with an expression of disappointment. Every time I see this ad on my site I do a double-take. The kid [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Bullet Sunday and there’s so much random stuff going on I figured it was fitting to do one today.

Last weekend the sun was shining, it was close to 80 degrees outside and we had a BBQ. This weekend we’re taking pictures of the snow that fell. SNOW. [...]

Unfortunately Jack had to work Saturday and that messed up our plans to go to Cathy’s house this weekend. That left me with not much to do as I had the house totally cleaned and all the laundry done. I thought about looking into body shop supplies to see what we can do with the [...]

It’s been snowing off and on for a week now but we have not received a single inch of accumulation. On Thursday we were horribly teased by a light dusting at our place, only to watch it melt away by that evening. I wouldn’t even call the dusting we had “snow”. It was slushy wet… [...]

Here it is, Christmas Eve morning and we’re already in a panic. The turkey is too big to fit in our roasting pan. We have a backup plan and Jack’s on his way to the store now to see what our alternatives are, but we can make this work one way or another.
We’ve been insanely [...]

When I was a child there was a brief time when my mother was married to my sister’s dad (my step dad) where we lived in a house that had a lot of trees in the yard. I remember spending a couple autumns at this house raking those leaves into big piles. I remember the [...]

I’m thinking about taking a photography class. I have never thought seriously about doing photography professionally before but the idea intrigues me and I get a thrill whenever I take a good picture. For example this butterfly one taken with my digital camera when we went to the Butterfly Exhibit at the Oregon Zoo. [...]