Are you sick of Thanksgiving talk yet?  How about turkey?  I am probably the last person to post their Thanksgiving recap, but it was a long four days, I am just now getting around to talking about it.  Also, it is just now laughable.  I think if I posted earlier I would have started crying.
Overall, [...]

The other day I was sitting out on our screened in porch and I noticed a ton of monarch butterflies fluttering around my mums.  I ran inside to grab my camera, giddy with excitement that my backyard was a stop on the migration trail.  I don’t remember seeing a monarch since my elementary school days [...]

…and then promised pictures but never delivered. Heh. I love taking pictures, I don’t so much love downloading, resizing and editing those pictures. Remind me never to pursue a career in photography.
The beautiful fall colors are quickly fading and before long everything will be brown and mucky. Before everything gets too depressing, I thought I [...]

Just a sneak peak at a few Vancouver pictures while I fly home and recover from jet lag.  Going to work tomorrow morning is going to be painful, I can feel it already.

By the way, fall in Vancouver tops any fall I have ever seen before.  The colors were amazing!  We really lucked out on [...]

Finally, it is vacation time!  Actually, technically the vacation doesn’t start until Sunday when the conference ends, but as far as I am concerned once I lock the front door I am on vacation.  Woohoo!
Timing worked out perfectly this year.  I don’t think B and I would have been able to squeeze in (or afford) [...]

My husband decided to upgrade our cable to digital cable last week.  Without conferring with me.  Not that I mind the extra $10 a month for twice as many HD channels, but I do mind the TWICE as many channels!  Once I discovered the science channel, national geographic channel and discovery channel (all HD!), my [...]