I really should have taken a Before shot, because it was bad. Really bad. I had boxes and papers stacked everywhere, covering pretty much every free horizontal surface, with other things crammed into the bookcase next to the desk. Yesterday, I really needed a way to relieve some stress, so decided it was time to tackle the desk... ( turned out to be a brilliant idea! )

Okay, so I'm pretty much sucking at posting a photo a day. At this point, I don't know that I'll ever manage to get caught up, but I'll probably still try ( Read more... )

I ended up down in Redmond Ridge again today for my walk... it's just such a convenient spot, on the way to and from so many places, plus it has some really great trails. I got a bit of a surprise though, ( when a fairly large frog hopped across the trail in front of me! )

Today for my walk, I stopped off at a trail in Redmond Ridge that I'd never taken before (I'll admit it, there was a Geocache I wanted to find). It was a really pretty walk in the woods, with some marshy areas along the way (thankfully, the trail was well maintained and had boardwalks in the wettest areas). ( And then I came around a corner and spotted the pond. )

After quite a lot hemming and hawing, we decided to do the responsible mature adult thing and skip Dragon*Con this year. We could have afforded it, but by not going, we'll have more money to spend enjoying our trip to Texas in a few months that's supposed to be our real vacation this year. That said, I am never, ever, EVER going to skip Dragon* ( Read more... )

Snapped this photo Tuesday morning after the sun had started to burn off a bit of the fog in the valley.

( Even when we have fog here, it's beautiful. )

Even after all these years, I still can't get over having cats who can eat their food right next to each other. Our old cats, Cymry and Polly, eventually had to be fed on different floors of the house because they'd fight if they were anywhere near each other at meal times.

( We've got quite the high tech setup these days. )

Yay! Two days in a row!

Today's photo is why we leave a tablecloth on the dining room table after we're done eating... and why we *always* change it before we eat there again, because we quickly realized keeping the cats off when we weren't using it was a losing battle.

( Zoë sleeping in her favorite spot, with late evening sunlight across the valley behind her. )

I've decided to just start posting my daily photos again and then work on getting caught up as I have time... it's gotten long enough that the task was getting a bit daunting (and, I thought, would also be a bit overwhelming to folks on my friendslist ( Read more... )

On our roadtrip, we were on I-90 heading through Idaho and I realized that we were about to pass Wallace, ID... a town I hadn't been in since they finally finished the interstate back in the 1990s (until that point, the main road actually ran through the middle of town). I looked the town up online to see what Wikipedia had to say about it... and ( Read more... )