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I have been threatening to take these two skating for a while, and they finally pushed me too far. I made them have fun tonight - of course now they want to go back.
Turns out that I didn't need the pillow strapped to my backside. In fact in the barrel jumping competition, I won eventhough I only cleared 11.
I was really good at the spinning and twirling stuff. It just kinda happens naturally when you start falling.
my first competition ever - Oakland CA's Rock! Paper! Scissors! Collective 3rd Annual Cupcake Bakeoff. Submitted three recipes and this the one they chose. I was the lone chocolatier and quite surprised at that!
(Now that I think about it, Interestingly enough, all the other cupcakes were fruity or coconutty, and the two recipes I submitted they did not choose were fruity and coconutty respectively.)
We want to strip the windows and window frames in the living room. They are so pretty and the paint job is so bad. Thankfully it literally peels right off. While Jason was waiting for me to finish up taking pictures, he started picking at it and almost got one side done.
This is his Daddy's favorite restaurant....a hot dog joint. And, no he did not have a hot dog today. Maybe next time=)
CJ wants this tooth out SOO bad!
He asked Daddy to try this morning to get it out, but it just wasn't ready yet. I love his face here.
My friend came to visit us from USA and this is her first encounter with so much snow. You can see the happiness in her eyes. At first I was quite disappointed as we didn't have snow at this time, what is not common and all country was foggy. But then we went to mountains and it was such beauty as it just began to snow. We also made her first snowman - see my stream.
Another room in the basement -it's like each one has it's own personality. This tiled room has more shelves of course. No clue what we are going to use it for.
Inspired by some of my Flickr friends, I've been working on compiling a list of all the birds I have photographed. I started a new Flickr album to help keep me on task. I still have several more new to me birds to share before I am complete. And of course, I hope to add plenty more in the future.
This, I believe, is a black vulture. Usually we see turkey vultures around here. This is the first and only time so far I have seen a black vulture. I was leaving one of my favorite local birding spots and traveling a country road when I came upon this guy/gal feasting on some road kill. I stopped the car in hopes of getting a shot, but it flew off up into the trees. Fortunately, I didn't completely spook it and managed to get some shots out the car window. I was also fortunate to have my camera and zoom lens sitting right beside me since I had just finished searching for birds at the pond.
It appears that this area is in the northernmost range of the black vulture, according to All About Birds from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ... link follows ...
Inspired by some of my Flickr friends, I've been working on compiling a list of all the birds I have photographed. I started a new Flickr album to help keep me on task. I still have several more new to me birds to share before I am complete. And of course, I hope to add plenty more in the future.
This, I believe, is a black vulture. Usually we see turkey vultures around here. This is the first and only time so far I have seen a black vulture. I was leaving one of my favorite local birding spots and traveling a country road when I came upon this guy/gal feasting on some road kill. I stopped the car in hopes of getting a shot, but it flew off up into the trees. Fortunately, I didn't completely spook it and managed to get some shots out the car window. I was also fortunate to have my camera and zoom lens sitting right beside me since I had just finished searching for birds at the pond.
It appears that this area is in the northernmost range of the black vulture, according to All About Birds from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ... link follows ...