Wednesday, August 4 - A shot from that now famous junkyard in Kalispell. A very smokey day here. Don’t know where it is coming from, but there must be a forest fire somewhere. We are going to clean the chicken coop on Thursday getting ready for our pullets to arrive next week. I am excited about having chickens again. I have always enjoyed them and it will be great having fresh eggs.
Tiffany pointed out that I put my birthday instead of Mother’s Day that she gave me that beautiful dahlia for. I am so sorry, Tiff. Must have had a brain freeze. I am loving the plant and it is in full bloom right now. Love that unusual salmon color.
Just a reminder to click on the photos to enlarge them. Click once and when you get the photo by itself; click on it again to enlarge. I am still way ahead on my blog dates. I am doing this to avoid any delay the knee surgery might force on me. I am scheduled on April 8th and will be layed up for a few days according to the doc. I know that is tomorrow according to the blog date. But this is actually a little over a week away on March 30.
I sure thought it was a flower, and a pretty orange one at that. When I touched it, I found it was just a “puff” of plastic that happened to land right there like a flower would be growing. I thought it was a very nice looking flower and sure was fooled.
I got my preop blood test and EKG done at the hospital this morning. Now I am all set in case they call me early. I told the doc I was more than willing to take an earlier time if someone cancels. My leg is doing okay. I am a bit tired this afternoon after my morning jaunt from one end of the hospital to the other. I am getting pretty good at crutches. Not something I want to be good at though.
I still am unable to upload photos. Curtis is trying to fix it so I can get caught up. Bummer!! Anyone who knows me well, knows that being late drives me crazy. Hope it gets okay be later today. The kiddos all went home just a little while ago. Tristan and Lily ended up here too and so did Emma. So I had Tiffany and the twins since Friday and then we had a sleepover party last night. What a delightful weekend!! It was so nice to get together with Tiff and the boys. Tristan and Lily always love to stay. Emma and Tristan are best buds, so she got to come along for a night. I will miss them all so much. Curtis just let me know that I am up and running again. So my photo is up and I can not thank you enough, Curtis, for helping me out.
Tomorrow is a brand new year; 2010! I can not believe how fast 2009 went. We had a set of twin grandsons born this year and lost Walter’s dad. I went on a Caribbean cruise, did a photo workshop in Portland and even did a photo walk in Missoula. Spent some wonderful times with good friends and family. I hope this coming year will bring some memorable times too. There will be a Panama Canal cruise, some online photo classes and a photo workshop to Glacier. I sure hope we can do that Grand Canyon trip this fall too. I am so looking forward to doing another photo year. Thanks to all who have taken an occasional peek here too. Check back every so often to see what is going on at my house.
Hey, Curtis, are we going to do a PAD next year? I have loved doing this one for 2009. Come on, let’s commit to doing it again!! I feel like I really accomplished something with this project. I will cherish the photos that I took throughout this year. I have loved sharing them with who ever took the time to take a peek. I hope that I have grown as a photographer this year.
You are right, those are Tristan’s big blue eyes. I was so glad to get to see him and Lily when his daddy came to bury Jasmine. My sis, Aimee, stopped in too. It is a very cold evening; already 24 degree and supposed to go down in to the single digits tonight, tomorrow night and Sunday night. Come on, Mr. Weatherman, bring me some good new for next week.
Right again, those eyes belong to Lily this time. Aren’t those eyelashes something? Walter noticed them from the time she was a newborn. I swear they just keep getting longer.
Debbie, You are right, those are Marilynn’s eyes. Isn’t it neat that we can identify people by just their eyes. I wonder if it would work with others? I might have to put some more up and see if you can figure out who they belong to.