Since we are coming to the end of our weekend (though it is a long one for us in Auckland --an extra day off for Auckland Anniversary Day), I thought I should probably go ahead and post most of the picts I have ready to go. That will let me concentrate on getting some stuff done around the house & let me process a few more in the mean time ( Read more... )

We took a short trip out to Mount Taranaki, along the West coast further down the North Island. We took a scenic route down. It added to our driving time but was beautiful. We made the trip down there in about 8 hours, the trip back (not so scenic but still a bit round-about to avoid traffic) took 7 hours of driving (it took a little longer in ( Read more... )

I've started working through some of my picts from our trip to California in April 2012. I had gotten through some but got sidetracked by Life. These are from in and around Sequoia National Park ( Read more... )

I'm taking a break from housework for a few minutes so I'm uploading some of the photos from our trip to my Webshots albums. I've created a special "Calico & Calif Deserts" album I'm putting the ones I've been through into. Here is the link to the new Calico and Calif Desert album ( Read more... )

I spent some time tonight working on the Broken Memories book. I spent some time watching "Dollhouse". I am hooked on it. A friend was getting rid of some of his stuff and he passed it on to me with a few other things. It's fairly violent and that doesn't sit with me well (especially since it seems like often it is the main character played by ( Read more... )

This is a tiny sneak peak before I go to bed. I've worked on a few more photos tonight. I haven't opened many from this part of the trip but thought y'all would like to see this one. I'm hoping I've got some better ones than this but have been disappointed by some of the ones I've seen. :( I do realise after looking at some of my trip photos ( Read more... )

Before the update: I feel like I'm slowly getting a handle on things & getting caught up. Slowly is the key word. I did the last of the chores around the house today. I made a list of things I'd like to do this month, things like organise the computer room, go through the closet in the bedroom, winter garden stuff, photo stuff. I also drove ( Read more... )