january calendar page

Didn’t win or get one of my 2010 calendars? No problem. At the start of each month I’ll post a link to where you can download your very own page. Here’s the link for January.

christmas vacation!

We’re finally to the point in our Christmas vacation that we don’t have to be anywhere at any particular time. We’re just taking the days, hours and minutes as they come. That’s not to say that the busy flurry of the holidays at the front end of our vacation weren’t wonderful. They were fantastic, filled…

happy christmas

a very merry christmas to all of our friends and family. love & warm wishes, michael & greg

and the winners are…

So the number picking didn’t happen at nine this morning. I was on the road getting a few last-minute things for tomorrow. But winners were eventually picked. Congrats to Jane, Michael and Allyson.  You’ve won a calendar.  I’ll be getting those out to you this weekend. Thanks for checking out my blog.

it's give away time!

Hey, did you hear? It’s almost the end of the year. (That was an accidental rhyme, by the way.) I wanted to take a moment and thank everyone who’s been visiting my blog. Since I moved it to its new location last January, I’ve had over 7,000 visits. While I’m no Huffington Post or Perez…

my best of's are coming soon

My friend Ryan reminded me that it’s that time of year again. When I go back through all of my photos from 2009 and pick out a few of my favorites. Well this year as of this typing, and there are still 10 days to go, I’ve taken 3,916 photos. Ryan’s hoping that this year…

#2…complete

No, not that #2. The #2 on my list of 37 things to do in the year before I turn 38. Today, I made lime jello! As I was thinking today about jello, my thoughts went back to my Grandmother Derr, or Grammie as all the grandkids called her. It seemed like all the family…

photo from christmas past

I’ve been in the process, for some time now, of scanning all of our old family photos that my mom and dad took when we were kids. I was looking through them this morning and came across this Christmas-themed shot. I can hardly remember a time before artificial christmas trees, but I guess it did…

snow sucs

Today’s snow accents the succulents that I left out on the patio from summer. Looks like a miniature ski slope for ants.