Making the next morning special

We gave some cards and some gifts to Judith as we begin Judith’s Birthday weekend.

Judith celebrates another birthday

This past Friday night our friends Doug and Penny came by with their children, Brandon and Bella for some Friday night fun and dinner.

Along with bringing a birthday cake for Judith she also decorated our dining room table in a very festive colorful Christmas way.  Judith made her famous Chicken Curry and we all had a really great time.

Re-thinking my career path may be in order

Hank

Fun with glasses

Cute geeky girl look

Surprised geeky girl look

Scary geeky girl look

Camera guy fell backwards off the step geeky girl look

Slip Slidin' Away

Sweet Creamy Joe

You can be my cowgirl ...

Cow-girl Elise

Bon appetit!

the apple galette from rachelchew on Vimeo.

I hear you, Sister!

Kraus Motor Co. “Achuma”

Named after a South American cactus known for its hallucinogenic properties, “Achuma” is part old Harley and part motocrosser, a Shovelhead-powered streetfighter that’s got a style all its own. There’s even a built-in skidplate for inner-city curb jumping! “Yeah, I don’t look too hard at what everybody else is doing,” builder Satya Kraus says about his styling influences

Read more: http://www.bikeexif.com/shovelhead#ixzz1iLOEYYsR

Remote and Rustic

NYC at Night

When my mother was 16 years old she had a job interview with a buying company for the clothing industry. The interview was in the Empire State Building. 

She made her way to the city but had a hard time finding her destination. So feeling frustrated and not realizing she was standing in front of the Empire State Building she stopped a gentleman who was walking by and asked …

“Can you tell me how to get to the Empire State Building?” 

His reply … “Look up lady, look up”.

Classic New York.

Where the road forks

Luke Peeters

The Quiet American, 1958

Courtney and Echo from way back when

With dreams of The Swiss Family Robinson

A cabin perched high in trees.

Really cool hat/coat combo hooks

http://jardin-maison.dekio.fr/reportages/maison/Les-ecotagnes-des-cabanes-ecolo-dans-la-montagne

Good thing that's over

Where'd that glass go?

New beginnings

Saying good bye to 2011

Being true to our family’s traditions, what would Christmas vacation be without one or all of us getting some bizarre illness that renders us immobilized along with making our family and friends shun us until we’re not coughing, drooling, nose running or with pyrexia.

Sparing Judith and Echo this time around it started with Silas spending all day Tuesday lying on the couch basically in a state of suspended animation. With his high fever it was like having a wood burning stove in our living room.

It went through the ranks and hit me hard on Thursday which somewhat suspended my garage cleaning efforts and forced me to switch to filing.

Could be worse ... it could be your garage.

I knew I'd find that kid in there

This was a task I was able to do while watching TV and lying on my back with a splitting headache and a sore throat.

Yesterday, New Year’s Eve we were all feeling much better so we thought we would spend some time in the back yard so our TV would get a rest. 

All was great the kids had a Nerf war, we played Bingo, tossed around the football, and played a lighthearted game of soft ball and then the sun started to descend.

It was like we never felt better.  All the symptoms all came tumbling back so it was back to the couch and the TV.

We had a quiet evening watching an Abbott and Costello marathon waiting for midnight.  Girlie and Hank bowed out early and the rest of us had homemade pumpkin pie with Cool Whip and watched the ball drop.

Today we’re getting ready for a Marx Brothers marathon and hopefully this illness will be a thing of the past by Tuesday so we can get back to our normal routine of life.