Well, the gate when in yesterday. No automatic opener yet, but I guess that's coming soon. Andrew stopped by the bar for a drink last night and we left together, so he was the first one who got to close it. My feelings about it were unexpected, actually.

Up until this point, I'd been looking at it very selfishly: how it might endanger and ( Read more... )

Whether or not a picture is really worth 1,000 words, here is some pic spam:
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So, I'm sure that most of you (well, at least my American friends) have heard all the annoying hullabaloo about Chaz Bono on Dancing with the Stars. Lewis Black summed it up very well in the second part of this video. Why are people bothered by a transgendered person dancing on a reality TV show, anyway? Who knows ( Read more... )

Okay, after my last, whiney/angsty (whangsty?) post about pictures, I thought I'd torture you all with recent pic spam:

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After Mesa Verde we had intended to go on to Durango or even Pagosa Springs. Our goal was to hit another hot springs (Pagosa is a bit like Ojo Caliente where we started out) before heading home. Unfortuntately, the Subaru had other ideas. We'd left the National Park and were driving out Hwy 160 when the car pretty much lost power. Thankfully, ( Read more... )

Day Four of our camping trip (don't worry, it's almost over), took us to Mesa Verde, home of 13-Century Cliff Dwellings.

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Okay, Day Three was huge - at least as far as miles covered, pictures taken, and adventures accomplished. So, just in case you care, this is Part Two:

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So, on Day Three we woke-up, (took showers!), ate breakfast, got lost in the campground (well, at least I did), andthen  headed off to Aztec, NM. Aztec is a tiny town of just over 6,000 people and is famous for being the site of a UFO crash and for the Aztec Ruins National Monument. For the record, the name "Aztec" resulted from the fact that those ( Read more... )

As some of you may remember, Andrew got pulled over whilst we were on our way to Deathly Hallows 2.  Well, he also got a ticket - or two. Or maybe one. He got one for having a headlight out, but for that one he merely had to prove that he'd fixed it. No biggie. The second one was for speeding (***whines*** we were almost late to Harry Potter!). ( Read more... )

 I have some camping pics from this weekend - and a strange story about fairies, but I'll save that for later ( Read more... )