13/365 last one

12/365 Cosmos

look whats still blooming even after the frost...

11/365 why hello beautiful...

coming to bed? there's room for one more....

this is alex she is resting on my hubby. i always get the best photos of her. her sister is harder to photograph for some reason.

10/365 shadows

man the days are getting so much shorter. this is at 4:30. in july this whole area was still flooded with sunlight, tanning time. *sigh.

9/365 scenes from a freeway

Mt. Rainier at sunset

8/365 Bienvenue, Willkommen, Come on in

TRICK OR TREAT!!!

I love this time of year. Its such a shame we don't get trick or treaters. Too far out I suppose. But decorating is so much fun especially because I can use these decorations thru Thanksgiving!
I grew the corn this summer it was so tasty and yes that is my everyday broom, its better than any store bought one. Purchased it at a hippie festival about 10 years ago and is hardly showing any wear.

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Rose hips.

When we were little we used to take walks along our road. Growing up in the mountains it made it quite safe to do so. I can't remember if we were coming or going but I do remember the spot where mom pointed out that rose hips are what is leftover from the roses and that they were edibile and filled with vitamin C.

This to my 7 year old brain it meant something else that I could put into my mouth and not get yelled at for. So for years my sister and I couldn't wait until fall and for the rosehips to shine through. we would pick them and eat some as we go then save the rest which usually ended up as dried pruny things by the time we remembered them in the spring. and yes we would eat them too completely ignoring the hairy seeds inside.

Now that I'm a bit older "ahem" I still enjoy them. More often than not they are in my tea but they are still tart and a little acidic and remind me of my childhood.

6/365

pathway home....

5/365 ladybugs, lots &lots of ladybugs

so a little history. the area where i live is considered the fooothills of the cascades. so there are quite a few hills and valleys. the valley that i am in now, evolved with a highway hugging both the north and south "walls" of the valley. in the seventies a 4 lane freeway came through the middle of the valley and the two highways are now rarely used as they are winding with many ups and downs. the north highway is my favorite with amazing views both ways and with enough curves to keep you glued to your seat ;). along this highway there is an adorable old bridge way above the hydroelectric plant. it has a seat on the southside that faces the river with amazing views of the north valley.
I introduced my nephew to this little seat about a month ago. So when i picked him up from school yesterday he requested that we stop at this bridge when i take him home. so we stop and the closer we get i notice that the entire south wall is COVERED in ladybugs. orange, red and black, little spots, big spots and no spots. we were stunned. my nephew at 7 years old called it "extrordinary". i couldn't take enough photos, it was just amazing.

4/365

Look who i found out in the garden today. Not sure what she is but she had no red hour glass. beautiful huh?

So whats the dumbest thing you've done today?

So i've been devouring a pot of coffee today. Now that it is evening ya slow down a bit. So having let my favorite mug filled with once piping hot caffeine nectar gone ice cold, I decide that I should place it on the wood stove to warm up. This is a habit I have done since childhood with cocoa, tea, coffee or any other assorted needing to be warmed beverages. So it was without hesitation I set it on the stove that was still silent with coals. Now something I didn't take into consideration tonite was this mug is glass and I set it in the middle of the top hoping it would warm up faster. Let me say this... BIG MISTAKE!


Needless to say I was watching tv and hear this loud SNAP! followed by violent hissing and the smell of burning international delights spiced rum and coffee. Not the best smell if you ask me. Have you ever tried to clean burning coffee/sugar off a piping hot stove with smoke filling the house and its too cold to open the doors to shoo it out? I suppose thats why they made cozy slippers and jackets!

I really did like that mug tho, damit.

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I did my lifeguard duties today. I saved'ed this huge bumblebee(he's drying in the sun here) and later 2 honeybees. That's the only thing i don't like about having a huge ug pool in the country. and yes we're renting but still... its seems as tho i am either saving insects, spiders, worms, frogs and weird whirly air/water bugs or fishing their sad carcasses out of the 10 ft deep or the filter.

psst.. todays picture was almost a little woodpecker but he was too far away and against the sun to get a good shot. boy was he noisy!

g' morning

so i just slept 18 hours and i'm thinking about going back to bed. my husband kept trying to wake me up but my eyes just didn't want to comply. he even made a pot of coffee. i think i'll have a cup with some cocoa to celebrate "international chocolate week", thanks 'Mouche.

well g'night i suppose....

2/365

this is why i like cold weather. it gives me an excuse to play with fire.

project 365/1

so i read about this project over on Fab Grandma and she in turn found it on another site she reads. so in the spirit of sharing and hopefully posting more often, i am going to give it a go.

what it entails is this. share a photo a day for a year. its that simple. maybe i can stick to this regimen.

here is the first installment.....

if you look closely you can see the birds...

Oh and BTW

happy happy

so it looks as though my master plan is working. mmuuwwaahhh.

i feel better now. no really, my weight loss is continuing on schedule. i am working my ass off and really watching what goes in my mouth. mostly. and my progress is slow which is good, 1 to 2 lbs a week. even with my sleeping shitty and traveling.

went to Seattle last Tuesday had a blast. ate way too much but drank lots of water and haven't missed a work out all week. went to IKEA, jeasus keyrist that's a big damn store. its sad to admit but i actually lost my berings and i have excellent berings ;) did all the things we like to do when we go there. had a blast. today we are heading up state to visit the apple capital. apple season is comming up. and i can't wait!!! but hopefully afterwards i can convince him to go to the petrified forest and the wild horse monument. i've been but he hasn't. it should be fun.

it got so cold tonite that i had to start a fire this evening. its supposed to be close to freezing this week. yuck. but change is good. some of the cottonwoods around here have started to turn color already. sigh. i need to chop down the corn stalks to make some decorations for my favoritiest holiday and get some big orange squash ie pumpkins. mmm pumpkins.

so off i go to try to get a few more hours of sleep in. wish me luck!

ooo good day today got new washer n dryer that my husband promptly broke. i'll have to call in tomorrow and do some trouble shooting. had a friend over for dinner and drinks. don't get to visit with her often enough. so we had long chats about nothing had few more drinks and watched the sun go down it was a lovely sunset

and now i've gone and fucked blogger up. *shruggs* oh well

i do not know what my problem is. my mind is racing and i keep hashing out the same old shit over and over and over in my head. i feel like some sort of mental patient. DOCTOR!!! WHERES MY MEDS!!!! OI YOU IN THE WHITE COAT!!! i think i may need a tranquilizer. ketamine aughta do it.

i think its the work outs that are doing it. stimulating muscles that are holding all that negative emotion. my massage therapist calls it "muscle memories" she firmly believes that our muscles hold the emotions of certain memories and that when they(the muscles) are stimulated or stressed it releases the gunk thats built up. which is why you are supposed to drink lots and lots of water. to flush it out. but i had never heard of this before she brought it up. i can see where she is comming from as i practice rudimentary energy work and can feel different emotions that may be trapped in a muscle knot or something. but i didn't know that it would effect the muscles owner(ie me) so much.

so as a result of this my eyes are getting crusty and my mind is still racing. does anyone have a rubber mallet?

le sigh

so a quick update. it was actually 105 degrees that day of the wedding. and i was sweating "like a whore in church" as my husband says. it went pretty quick actually and if i do say so myself i did pretty damn good. i even had her ultra conservative baptist preacher uncle compliment me. so la te da!

so i'm on a quest to make my ass smaller. and for the past two days i've really blown it. damn it. Sunday i needed to rest. all week I've either been doing hardcore cardio 20 minutes to start and the last 4 days i got up to 40 minutes and stayed within my target heart rate for 30 of those. and I've also been doing some serious yoga stretching that has been kicking my ass. but today i had no excuse other than i'm fucking lazy. and it being a holiday, family and food. but at least i had a lot of veg and very little fat. but also not enough protein. so tomorrow is another day er actually today i suppose. man i need to get into a better sleeping schedule. i think that its not helping all this back and forth.

hey we're gonna buy a new washer and dryer tomorrow. yippee! its gonna be green. hahaha. actually its cheaper than white or the blue they have by over $100, so i would say that was the deciding factor price before beauty, or something like that.

oh and i get to see my nephew W tomorrow/today as well. I'll pick him up from school, i think we'll swim. he is such a character! i can remember taking him into my workplace at 5 years old and using words that most of my coworkers didn't know. man i worked with some idiots. thank the gods that part of my life is over. but W really makes me smile. he is smart as a whip and just about as spastic as one sometimes. he is a small kid so he gets picked on i think, which makes me sad but i can empathize as both his mother and i were small for our ages too.
breath
oh and one more thing. we live in the orchard area here. cherries to the north and west pears to the south and a few apples to the east. pears are being harvested now so before they hit our area we went out and stole 8 grocery bags full of amazing pears under the dark of the new moon. mmuuwwaahhh.
breath.
me thinks its time for bed, maybe.