LaCie d2 Professional 16TB
1 year ago
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Lab Baby Shower
All my friends from the lab threw me a baby shower at my house today. Actualy my friend Amanda was the ring-leader. Luckily for Drew she brought her husband Jason. They spent the day together taking about ….I don’t know what, but they talked the whole time. Hanna from the lab also did a lot of work for the shower, as she is an amazing cook. I am sure that everyone at the party had at least 5 ribs each with meat and sausage kabobs, salad and punch. Oh and of course cake. Amanda was very concerned that I would have to be cleaning up glitter for the next month. I insured her that the only glitter we would be picking up would be in dog poop. The puppies got to stay and enjoy the festivities so tonight they were very very tired. I guess their 10 naps a day are very important.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
4th of July Recap
The weather forecast for the 4th of July was predicting unpleasant high winds for the weekend in Coos Bay. Keri and I had not left the area since January, so we decided that a mini vacation was in order, and off to Redding California we went. We also wanted to test out the dog's life jackets in warmer water. We skipped town late thursday afternoon and headed south.
Earlier that day, unknown to us, my parents were having an interesting afternoon. Scott had sliced the skin on his knee open using a hooked razor knife. Because the wound was on the bendy part of the knee he decided it was best to get stitches so that it wouldn't split open every time he flexed his knee. After returning from the work site on the mountain, Barb took him to the clinic to get stitches. While Scott was waiting to be seen at the clinic, Barb dashd off to do some errands. Before she could get out of the clinic parking lot the her van broke down. Not knowing exactly what was wrong and Scott being tied up in the waiting room at the clinic, she called Tripple "A" to have to car towed home.
After being dropped of at home by the tow truck, she quickly took off in Scott's pickup, making a quick stop at the store before returning to the clinic in time to pick up Scott, who had just received seven stitches to the knee.
We arrived late in the evening and an were soon to bed. (Its amazing how much smaller a full size bed is compared to a queen when there are 4 occupants. 2 People AND 2 space hogging puppies!)
It turned out that the van had sprung a leak in the radiator causing coolant to spray onto the belts which caused them to slip of the pulleys, causing the power steering, air conditioning, and alternator to stop working, which caused the calling of the tow truck. Fortunately the nearby repair shop had a similar totaled mini-van from which we were able to salvage the radiator and repair the van. I always seem to get suckered into working when I go on vacation.
On Friday while waiting for the replacement radiator to be removed from the donor vehicle we went to the house of some family friends who were out of town for the weekend to use their pool.
The water was just the right temperature to offset the 100+ degree temps. Coaly and Zephy had swimming lessons from Keri. They both swam well, but were not very enthusiastic about getting into the pool (though I think they enjoyed being wet and cool afterwords in the heat).
We had reservations for dinner in Dunsmuir at a railroad themed park. We ate dinner in a renovated railcar. Keri and Barb stayed at the resort in a renovated caboose, while Scott and I returned to Redding to care for the dogs and cats.
On Saturday got up early in Dunsmuir to take a few photos and to head for Shasta City where Barb had signed up to do a Five Mile “fun run”. Luckily for Keri they elected to do the two mile fun walk.
After Scott and I finished replacing the radiator we spent the afternoon and evening looking at ALL of the family photo albums.
On Sunday we had a leasurly morning before heading back to Coos Bay.
Earlier that day, unknown to us, my parents were having an interesting afternoon. Scott had sliced the skin on his knee open using a hooked razor knife. Because the wound was on the bendy part of the knee he decided it was best to get stitches so that it wouldn't split open every time he flexed his knee. After returning from the work site on the mountain, Barb took him to the clinic to get stitches. While Scott was waiting to be seen at the clinic, Barb dashd off to do some errands. Before she could get out of the clinic parking lot the her van broke down. Not knowing exactly what was wrong and Scott being tied up in the waiting room at the clinic, she called Tripple "A" to have to car towed home.
After being dropped of at home by the tow truck, she quickly took off in Scott's pickup, making a quick stop at the store before returning to the clinic in time to pick up Scott, who had just received seven stitches to the knee.
We arrived late in the evening and an were soon to bed. (Its amazing how much smaller a full size bed is compared to a queen when there are 4 occupants. 2 People AND 2 space hogging puppies!)
It turned out that the van had sprung a leak in the radiator causing coolant to spray onto the belts which caused them to slip of the pulleys, causing the power steering, air conditioning, and alternator to stop working, which caused the calling of the tow truck. Fortunately the nearby repair shop had a similar totaled mini-van from which we were able to salvage the radiator and repair the van. I always seem to get suckered into working when I go on vacation.
On Friday while waiting for the replacement radiator to be removed from the donor vehicle we went to the house of some family friends who were out of town for the weekend to use their pool.
The water was just the right temperature to offset the 100+ degree temps. Coaly and Zephy had swimming lessons from Keri. They both swam well, but were not very enthusiastic about getting into the pool (though I think they enjoyed being wet and cool afterwords in the heat).
We had reservations for dinner in Dunsmuir at a railroad themed park. We ate dinner in a renovated railcar. Keri and Barb stayed at the resort in a renovated caboose, while Scott and I returned to Redding to care for the dogs and cats.
On Saturday got up early in Dunsmuir to take a few photos and to head for Shasta City where Barb had signed up to do a Five Mile “fun run”. Luckily for Keri they elected to do the two mile fun walk.
After Scott and I finished replacing the radiator we spent the afternoon and evening looking at ALL of the family photo albums.
On Sunday we had a leasurly morning before heading back to Coos Bay.
Studio Work
I had a whole day off today so I worked in my studio and blogged (ok I made Drew finish my 4th of July post but nagging takes effort to.) Last night Drew set up the studio for me then this morning my friend Jessica came over so I could practices taking pictures of them. Later in the afternoon I had my friend Carol over so I could take photos of her little boy Wyatt. Well enough of my blabbering on with the photos….
T- 7 weeks (Well Wendi I hope this is what you wanted..... to see my huge belly!!!!)
It really was like trying to take a photo of the moon. As far as trying to get the lighting perfect. I am sure you all remember that science experiment in 2nd grade where you take the flash light and shine it on the ball and it is demonstrates how the moon changes……yep that is me right now.
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