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Summer is almost gone?

Took this photo a few weeks ago at the annual Hot Air Balloon festival they have here. For some reason, the weekend they schedule this event has consistently seen bad weather – either high winds, rain, lightning. And it’s the one week of the summer that’s consistently bad like that. Makes me wonder why they don’t move the date. You’d think they’d see the pattern there…? I can’t believe summer is coming to an end. Rachel starts school next week. I had wanted to go camping this summer, and make a small trip up to visit Portland, OR to see if we maybe want to move there. Good or bad, Sam was supposed to be laid off at the end of July and they ended up extending him 2 more months. So the time off we thought we’d...

life continues

That is my poor dog. He’s been on Prednazone for a number of weeks and while he needs to be on it to keep him stabilized (we already tried reducing the amount he takes with bad results) the drug itself is causing all kinds of problems. The more annoying of which is it makes him pee. Endlessly. It’s like he manufactures pee from the air he breathes. I couldn’t keep up with all the accidents and even though he looks ridiculous, I broke down and made him a “doggie diaper”. Basically it’s just band that goes around his belly and I line it with an incontinence pad. Does the job. And this way he can still walk freely around the house. In other news, I haven’t mentioned it on this blog – but I’m speaking at WordCamp...

Mountain Bluebell

While I did use the ShakeItPhoto app for it’s filter – the picture wasn’t taken on the iPhone. Took this photo on our hike today to Donut Falls. I thought it was so funny how the bees go completely inside the bluebell, wiggle around in there and then back themselves out. It was pretty funny to watch. When I wanted to write this post, I was 99.9% certain this flower was a Mountain Bluebell, but I wanted to make sure I was right. I found this other website with pictures of tons of wildflowers here in Utah: Western Wildflowers (Most of them are named on there). Very cool...

Morning Commute

Alternate titles: A Snail and a Centipede Walk Into a Bar… or Small Sized Traffic Even though I took the picture, I actually can’t stand snails. But I thought it was funny that for several days in a row, I swear I saw the same snail making the same trek across the sidewalk in the morning. Like he was going in to work or something.