Frankie is as awesomely strange as ever. He has recently been getting our money's worth out of a dollar store bug catching kit Many a potato bug has lived it's last moments inside of it.
(I don't really know why he had the sticker on his forehead. I think it was giving him super powers or some such.
And I'm happy to report he got a much needed haircut last Friday. )
My hard drive has been infected by some terrible, unrepairable virus not once but TWICE in the last two weeks. That means two formats. (Luckily I keep most of my data on a secondary hard drive and I have a genius husband, so I didn't lose any data, just programs.) When it happened the second time last week I had just installed itunes, which was the last program I was missing. Now I'm starting over again, with a newfound fear of browsing the internet. We think the weather underground website may be the culprit, but it seems like a pretty legitimate site, so who knows. I wouldn't recommend it just in case.
Jerm is working hard. Often all through the night. Have I mentioned that on top of all the clinicals and ambulance ride alongs he has scheduled he also has class 2 evenings a week, and some Saturdays, and he is still working 30-40 hours a week. To say the least, he is tired when he is home.
Do not overlook the glorious fatness of the Bingley cat in this photo.
I've been working on a portrait which is good fun. I painted almost all day yesterday. Check out my art blog, the post from today is from earlier this week, I'll post yesterday's session as soon as I get the ambition to take a picture. Which will probably be before the next time I paint.
In February there were 2 weekends I wanted to make note of. The first was when we had a family reunion of sorts with Jeremy's family. His sister and her family were here from Reno, and Aunt Kathy and Grandma.
We visited pioneer park for a picnic, photos, and much exploring:
Frankie was exhausted afterwards, and fell asleep on the floor even though he was excited for Angie to come over to our house that day. It turned out she had fallen asleep as well, so they came to visit the next day instead.
The kids had so much fun playing together and with everyone else.
There was much card playing by the adults. A little bidding game called Shitsky. I have no idea where this game originates, but I'm pretty sure I've never heard of anyone besides Jerm's family playing it.
Everyone took a turn trying out the Moon Sand. I think the grown ups were more fascinated with it then the children. It is crazy stuff.
I really wanted to get some cute pictures of Frankie and Angie. I made several attempts, and got a few cute ones this day and on the red rocks. My camera has a hard time with cloudy weather sometimes. It's probably something I had set weird, but the pictures get this weird pink glow to them. Any fellow Canon users with some tips? My point and shoot does this too.
The next weekend, as is tradition, I hit some parade of homes with my Mom and sisters. This year Laurie's kids Hunter and Mayzie wanted to come too. I was skeptical and thought they would hate it, but they actually seemed to enjoy themselves. This picture was taken after Hunter had tried to sneak this sign from one of the booths in the garages, but the lady saw us and gave us her whole speech. Even pointing to Mayzie for dramatic effect when she talked about all the exhaust getting in children's lungs. She said he could have the sign he posted it somewhere. I must confess I have made more of an effort to be "idle free" since then.
And of course we must have lunch.
