Ho-Hum

This is kinda how I feel today.  A mish-mash of color, weepy and washing away.  

I think that is what happens when you start out with a full check book and then you pay the bills.

Can anyone guess...

what this beautiful bloom is from?

This little gem is the product of my okra plant.  Beauty in the oddest places...

D&SNG Railroad

Old train bridge along the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico...  Andy and I went for 5 days of humid, hot fun.

Funny story about our trip.  I went to the spa, Andy went golfing.  He was golfing all by himself so he called me after 9 holes to see if I wanted to ride along the last 9.  Sure, I had nothing else to do.  He had to buy more balls anyway, he had already lost like a dozen!  And the girl had told him before he started that if his ball went into the rough to leave it.  It wasn't really rough, so much as jungle.  We found out why you leave them later on, as we came across IGUANAS.  Not little iguanas, like 6 foot long, mean looking iguanas.  They just hung out on the course, and if your ball got close to them, you let them just have it!

Just in case I forget...

Here is another one, just for summer.  This is probably just my favorite because Abby is too darn cute.

Maybe a new direction...

Clearly I am not cut out for multiple postings in a week, much less even one.  I think of all these great things, but than I find, maybe it isn't so great after all.  So, let me tell you what I am going to do...

I have been studying up on Photography.  I have wanted to be a serious photographer since high school.  I have no formal training, just what I have learned by trial and error through the years.  I have done 3 weddings, one I actually got paid for, and one set of senior pictures.  Definitely a novice when it comes right down to it!

And now, with the economy being the way it is, I will be taking one day off a week.  Bad, but good, because now I find myself with one day a week that while the kids are in school, I can focus my time on really learning photography.  So, I will post at least one new photo a week.  Sometimes a description, or sometimes just a photo.

Here is my first...

I just finished reading about lighting and started playing with my camera.  Amy is usually camera-shy, but I just kept taking different pictures of her as she talked to me.  And here it is.  One of my favorite pictures ever!  Purely by accident!  Never the less, love it!

WOW

...where have I been?  I've been avoiding my blog, that's where.  And why might you ask?  Because sometimes it seems such a chore!  Really, thought it would be much easier to write about my daily musings.  They come so easily in my head, on paper screen they seem less funny and more blah.

But, seeing as how it is 3 in the morning with no sleep on the horizon, here goes...

Summer has begun, or should I stay started three weeks ago.  I long for the lazy days of summer.  Limited hours at work to stay home with the kids.  Get things done around the house I have been meaning to do all year long.  Relax.  Lay by the pool (I have a trip to Hawaii to prepare for, must be tan BEFORE I go).  

And yet, every year gets more hectic.  This year is swim team.  I "made" my kids do it!  Yes, I did!  I think they need to have as many experiences in their childhood as is economically possible.  (The economics part of it is getting a little difficult lately!)  They dread nearly every single one, until they do it.  Then, as if it was their idea, they love it!  Amazing!  Well, I can't say that they love it yet, but at least they don't hate it!  So, swimming every a.m.  No sleeping in much to the dismay of Abby, and to be honest I miss it a little too!  But it is amazing how much you can get done in the morning before it is too hot!

But back to the swimming.  Last week was the first meet.  Abby, my youngest, does not have the competitive spirit quite like my oldest Amy.  I was concerned how she would do competing for the first time.  She seems to take her time swimming down the pool.  So, she started and went her usual pace.  Came in 7th, but I was happy for her because she didn't come in 8th which would have been last.  Then it was time for the relay and I just didn't want her to let her team down.  And what do you know... 1st place!  You should have seen her face!  The first time she has ever received a first place of any kind!  So proud!  I don't think you could have wiped the grin off her face!  But, what was better was her saying to me that she was just glad that she didn't come in last in her individual race.  It really isn't about winning for her.  I am the same way.  Don't get me wrong, I LIKE to win, but I don't HAVE to win. So in the end I was most proud of the way she handled herself when she didn't win.

Well, first few days of summer in a nutshell.  It'll be gone before we know it!

And hey, if I actually have any readers out there, maybe you'll be lucky enough to get another post before the summer is over!