Well, I wasn't 100% today, but I felt much, much better (thankfully ( Read more... )

Marilyn and I left the house around 8:30 a.m. this morning and were to the office before 9:00. I dashed to Starbucks with Rich and Marilyn had left for Court judging before we got back. Rich headed out to join her there, while I got started on my numerous IT projects for the day ( Read more... )

Until I'm coding like MAD again (as I was today), I tend to forget how much I love doing it. Today -- working in my home office -- my focus was on the festival website. I had several submitted pages I needed to tackle, plus I needed to create a bunch of entirely new pages for CityFair (our new version of WFV ( Read more... )

I had to brave the cold (!!!) and go out to stick the oil (and be sure we weren't running low). Happily, we have:

170 gallons

I'm MAD at myself that I didn't say how many gallons we had when I stuck the oil back in November... (sigh) This is where I tend to keep track of it, after all...

ETA: Actually, I did put the info here -- but in a private ( Read more... )

It was a HUGELY busy day (yes, again). I did festival work from home and set up our (very complicated) DVD Recorder in our family room (where we have the DVR). I tested it and it's working GREAT, which is the good news! It took me two hours to do it (lifting the heavy, old TV and so on), but I was super-happy when it was done ( Read more... )

It's a MISERABLE day here in Portland, Oregon. Pouring down cold rain. (brr ( Read more... )

Even though our Christmas tree isn't a real one, the boys just loved it to bits. Seriously!

Our poor, poor cats...

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I just had an amazing experience ( Read more... )

Remember that I shared photos of our new hummingbird feeder in this entry???

We had a hummingbird today!

I made a little movie (very short) that I'll share under the cut...

( See our little hummingbird here! )