There are no better distractions at work than when daughter and granddaughter comes to visit.

I always think sunflowers are happy things. Up close, they don't look so good but I still like taking pictures of them.



This sunflower is over five feet tall. I think the regular ones are always this big.

I think this one is a shy one.

I'm a chicken. Every time we get in bumpy weather, I get scared. It was a very bumpy ride over to Helena on 8/26/09. We got there just fine. For me it was too many minutes of white knuckle gripping the seat belt.

It doesn't help that a couple of years ago we were heading to Helena, albeit in March when we flew into a scary icing encounter. That was when Lee declared an in air emergency and his speed indicator in the Skymaster failed completely. We both thought, "This is it!"

Since then, we haven't really flown much and every time it gets bumpy, I get sweaty.



So it's good to land!

We stopped to get an Arby’s on the way to Michigan.
I think we were just a little bit outside of Alexandria, Wisconsin when we saw this flock of geese.
If they’re looking for water and then I think they were following a clueless leader.


Good thing we have a GPS ourselves.

Here's the proud mama after giving birth to Jubilee Jordan. She was born at 9:30 am. Becky's water broke around 5 am - a fast labor - so way to go! That's quick for a first timer.

You are no doubt wondering where all pictures of the baby are...well you'll have to click this link to see the pictures. No sense in loading this post up...

As you will see, she's a beautiful baby!

It's been a busy few weeks since I last posted. We've done 2 focus groups, dissolved the law office partnership and I got my new (to me) NIKON COOLSCAN negative scanner!


It was a couple of days before I got around to setting up my cool new gadget. Everything went swimmingly.

Installed software - Check
Plug in the scanner to the computer - Check
Turned it on and the computer recognized it - Check, Check
Tried scanning a couple of negatives - worked like a charm! Check Check!
EXCEPT when I tried the third negative - then a dreaded ERROR message.

I spent a couple of days trying to figure it out. Even e-mailed the guy I bought it from. I have to give him kudos - he replied to me immediatedly and told me that sometimes some old negatives would not scan at all and I should try a different batch.

That was the solution. Ever since then, I been scanning like a mad demon.
Guess who this is?

Well, I couldn't wait, so we watched the Chuck episode after their winter break.

I didn't realize that the show was going to be broadcast in 3D until I saw a commercial during the Super Bowl.

Isn't the internet a great place? I wasted so minutes this morning searching on where we could get the coveted 3D glasses and Google didn't disappoint me!


So I sent Lee on a wild goose chase after work today looking for these great things! It was amazing but there were a few left. He found some at the third store (Albertson's) he stopped at.

Who says he doesn't love me? (or is it CHUCK he loves?) :-(