Friday, October 29, 2010

pumpkin carving

It's been a tradition of mine, at least since I moved to Jacksonville, to have a small, family-oriented pumpkin carving party.  And we decided to continue it here in Colorado.  Except, once Dow got involved, it wasn't so "small" anymore.

We invited most of the families, young and old, up the county road.  It was quite the turnout!

It seems cowboy hats were the standard, though.  Something a little different from the previous tradition.

 Even my parents came!  That's my Mom straight ahead and my aunt to the right.

And my dad in the middle.

The outcome was great.  There were pumpkins everywhere!

Some pumpkins were happy.

Some pumpkins were scary.  

Heck!  Some were even hungry! (And smoking...in front of my mom's elbow.)

 But there were pumpkins EVERYWHERE!

Regardless of this face, I think everyone can agree it was a SMASH!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

update II

If I blogged all the time, I wouldn't have to keep giving you updates.  But I don't, so I do.

Let's travel back in time - doodledoo, doodledoo, doodledoo.

The month is April.  My roommate Sarah, crazy girl, tells me she's going to get married.  On July 31.  Of this year.  And she does it.  Which means, she's moving out to live with her husband.  Crazy girl.  And since she's my eyes and ears at my house, and well, let's be honest, things are going well with Dow, it's time to move everything out of my house, get a property manager, and rent the whole thing out instead of this Craigslist piecemeal stuff.

Dow and I come down at the beginning of August, with tons of help from Little Jessica and her husband, we get the house packed and moved into storage in about 5 days.  Ugh.  Oh yeah, and we had to repaint.

Somehow, while I love this wall, I guess not everyone else will.  Bummer.

I then realize how dumb it is to pay all that money for a storage unit - I planned on getting everything in April when we come back to sod - and bemoan all of my good kitchen stuff.

So, my parents and I drove down to Florida in Dow's truck and trailer.  Yes, 29 hours dragging this hugemongous thing.  And that's where we are now.  We have to try to fit everything from a 10x10x10 storage unit into this, now very small, trailer.

And drive 29 more hours home.

Monday, October 18, 2010

the pioneer woman

I love the Pioneer Woman.  In case you have no clue who she is, she's one of the top bloggers.  As in, she makes boocoo bucks...just from blogging.  She has her own cookbook out now.  And she's going to have a movie made about her one of these days.

So what does she have to do with me and my blog?  Well besides the fact that before she was big and famous, she's what inspired me to start my blog.  And more importantly, she's what inspired me to write this posting.  Why?  Because she wrote this article on Ten Important Things I've Learned About Blogging and one of them was this:


2. Blog often.
Whether you write a sixteen-paragraph essay about the cosmic implications of a free market system, a one-paragraph description of what happens to your soul when you walk into your godforsaken laundry room, or a simple photo and caption, consider your blog a precious bloom that requires daily nurturing.
And watering.
If you water a plant once every two weeks, it will shrivel.
Unless that plant is a cactus, and then it would thrive.
And to tell you the truth, I really can’t figure out how a cactus fits into this analogy, so forget I brought it up.

And you know, I've finally found how to keep my plants alive.  I just water them.  I don't fertilize them or anything.  I just give them lots of water.


So do you think it will work here?  The strange thing is, I kinda quit blogging, because, even though my stalker-thing tells me how many people are visiting daily - and people tell me I haven't been blogging - I think no one is really reading.  But you are!  If only I would write, you would read.  So I'll try to get back to it.  


I still take pictures for you.  I do.  Why don't I put them up?  Maybe the slow internet.  Would everyone please call Dow (don't email, he hates computers) and ask him for faster internet?  He might like computers better that way.


Anyhow, here's my first watering.  Here's to hoping for a great harvest!