Christmas day

 

ChuckIt

 
Ben after a good session of Chuckit (his Christmas present)

My future slippers

 
I'm blown away that KB actually made these. I thought they were finished (if a little big) but there is all this custom sizing via fleecing that we still have to do yet.

right now, they are bobo the clown slippers

Christmas day 2008. yay!

 

Peppercorns

KB got me a variety of whole peppercorns for a stocking stuffer. She Rocks.

samplings next

Processor transmission

robert

Means "bright fame", derived from the Germanic elements hrod "fame" and beraht "bright". The Normans introduced this name to Britain, where it replaced the Old English cognate Hreodbeorht. It has been a very common English name since that time.

I'm winning.... yeah!

COMMENTS ON ALL THINGS CONSIDERED PIECE ABOUT GINGERBREAD HOUSES.

bob rulli (bobo2112) wrote:

We've been having a 20-30 house Gingerbread house decorating party for 8 years now. Last year me and KB made several trains. Can we send in pictures? The small one came out very well and even had a coalman (coleman, we called him)
Friday, December 19, 2008 7:06:11 PM

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Robert Mathews (Veritas41) wrote:

This Schlock story, complete with sugary Old Christmas Music, is twice as long as the average news item on All Things Considered. Bah, Humbug! Where are your priorites? Two women gushing over the "obscene amount of candy" (your phrase) just isn't relevant to me. Who sets this programming? Oprah? Martha Stewart? This is supposed to be, primarily, a news program... or, at least, so I thought, until now. All Things Considered, indeed. A very cleverly-chosen name.
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our ice storm

 

Christmas lights Plan B

So either the position or the lights themselves are working well. 3 of the 4 up there barely lit up and only stayed on for about 20 minutes before going dim and then off. dang!

Maybe they just need to fully recharge, but it was a sunny day although that angle is weird and they really no direct sunlight.

might have to go to plan B (the boring ordinary lights)

Geli and Ben

 
This picture makes me happy. Summertime fun

look at those bone heads

Jazz in N'awlins

 

KB there for Trop Med meeting.

Christmas lights

 

a little scary climbing that 20 foot ladder, but there are only 2 more to drill. (and I have to get on the roof to access those.) Maybe I'll wait until KB gets home so that someone can call the Ambulance if I fall.

The gingerbread barracks

 
now THAT is production.

Go KB. we're done with houses (and the pagoda)

Omar Sharif

Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran

The great infinity

Lehem

Bread. Why do I have so much bread in the house? I have been mindlessly buying it, sliced orowheat, pita, rustic italian, baguette.

Hope that we can dry it out for breadcrumbs or something. There is no way I can eat all that bread.

Lehem.

Geli

 

Geli doing what she loved, wandering on her own in nature. This was taken at a rest stop in Nebraska on the trip home a week ago.

December 1st. Good bye Geli

Tonite we said our good byes to Geli. She's so beautiful and I will miss her dearly. She brought such joy into our lives and those that she touched.

Joe, it makes me happy to think that we not only got to go camping with her (lots), but we climbed a Fourteener with her. And she chased that elk down the mountain and came back.

KB, Geli will always have a place in my heart. Thank you for being there with me tonite. The other Fourteener with Geli was with you. Among many other adventures too numerous to recall. I love that dog.

Jupiter and Venus and that sliver of a moon in the SW sky tonite. They made a cock-eyed frowning face in the sky. Just how Geli would have liked it.

Thank you for spending most of your life with us, Geli. We will miss you.

My Sweet Girl

Geli went to the CSU Vet Hospital yesterday. Her breathing has gotten more labored. They took some xrays of her chest and abdomen. Her entire lung region is full of masses. No wonder she's working so hard to get air. They could not hear her heart beat and the stress of being in that room with out us made her breathing even worse.

We took her for a long slow walk around the lake last night. She seemed to like that. Same this morning. No leash, she just slowly walked with us (Ben of course, was tearing ahead)

The Vet pretty much concurred with CSU diagnosis; lung cancer. They thought that there was a small chance it was fungal infection. Either way being so advanced, the prognosis is very poor. Our vet even offered to come to the house for us, but we have already arranged with Dr Leach to come over tonite at 6:30.

Geli asked for a kong today and ate most of a hotdog too. Now she is sleeping and we're trying to just be with her for the next few hours.

Moby Dick unabridged

21 hours. Listened to on the drive. worked out nicely. Finished somewhere between here and STerling. KB fell asleep just as Ahab....uhmm....

Guess you know.

The Talent show

The talent showed actually worked out better and worse than expected.

The lighting almost caught on fire (Anthony swears it was smoking), there were a number of ad-lib unexpected entries (Elliot's antics and the Papa Tony Show) and the show only lasted less than a half hour (where was the popcorn??)

And what about the booing and hissing? Tough Crowd.

Opening Act:

Glow Jars by Mountain Dew. (we read all the comments AFTER that it was all a hoax. Dolt!)

(I think Anthony did a joke here, but can't remember what it was)

The Dream on Weber Street. (I was proud of Lia for putting this together. Go Lia)

A scene from scarface (Thank you ALex!)

Mike's Wrap ( I knew he would do something. Show off! )

TEBAHLA (nicely done Lia)

The Lynn Show (our thoughts were that this was most put together and executed, except the music start)

Pageant (aka Pregnant) Duh!

Juggling (hard room to pull this off. Liked the music. Good stuff)

Magic Joe (quite well done. IGNORE THOSE HECLERS JOE)

My Sweet Lord (Orchestrated. nice)

Papa Tony's Improv. (oh Solo Trio)
Someone said that next year Elliot has to have a part or he'll be in all the parts like this year.

Nice job MC'ing, there Ant!

Fun stuff. Have to see the video. Who has it?

Geli

My baby isn't feeling well (at all). Been logging her symptoms over the week and will have her to the vet tomorrow at some point. I hate seeing her suffer like this.

She's utterly exhausted from the breathing constriction but won't go to sleep since she just wants to be with us wherever we are.

Hang in there Ms Stink.

and get some sleep already

Unfolded proteins

 
job done. about a tbs of bleach 'cooked' the yolk. the whites were just gross. they turned a disgusting yellow orange.

and the experiment ends.

this is the grossest thing we've tried in a while.

Unfolding proteins

 
And the great bleach experiment unfolds.

1 egg yolk (mostly protein)
1 egg white (mostly albumen)
Some bleach (effective dosage, unknown)

The house build commences

 
The bricks of gingerbread dough.

the great pumpkin

 
plus an orange smoke bomb

It's a Go. 8th Annual Gingerbread House Par-tay

 

82 kids

KB and I quickly carved a couple of pumpkins, made some more spider webs with twine on the front porch, put out some of the red lights from Chinese new year and moved the lanterns and their hooks to the front yard.

House actually looked pretty good for as fast as we threw it together.

Initially, we didn't have costumes but KB put on those big ears and a cowboy hat. I was rolling. I put on a red hat and made a clown out of myself. (really hard to do)

Our schtick for the night was we would present a desert tray with a few of each candy (Butter fingers, Reeses, Take Fives, toes, eyeballs, regular fingers and lips.) KB held the tray and I ran through the selection. Made the kids wait, and choose carefully.

At one point we brought a tomato into the fray. AMAZINGLY, kids wanted it. Two actually took 'em. One 7 year old kid said "oooh, tomatoes are a healthy, tasty treat" (yes, we asked the parents who were curbside if the kids could take them)

One little girl, just walked away, shaking her head, saying “To-Mato”. She must have thought we were ridiculous. I think she’ll remember us.

Later, an attractive mom and her kids stopped by with a puppy in tow. We did the candy hand out and then the mom says to me “Do you want to PET IT” (really annunciating the T’s.)

That was a little weird. But, I DID pet it.

One kid was apparently too tired to make the 20 foot walk from the sidewalk to our house. So…we moved the show to him. (he made his grandma pull him around in the wagon. What a life of riley this kid had)

At About 8:00, KB decided that we shouldn’t give out any more ‘food’ items like tomatos, just the candy. I guess the razor blade in the apple thing worried her. And I guess we don’t want to be known as THAT house.

I moved on to Easter Eggs, though (we had 12 blown ones from spring still in the house) Those went over OK with the young kids,, but by time I brought them out it was time for the teenagers. And they were just too cool for Eggs. Just too cool for any of it. And they were a tough crowd, because all they wanted was the grab and go. The little kids enjoyed the show that me and KB put on. Not the teenagers. Lots of eye rolling. But I made em wait. And I thought for sure we’d get egged or TP’d.

Neither happened and we got most of the candy out of the house. Except for the 2 EXTRA bags of Take Fives.

KB apparently likes those.
:)

Oh yeah...and the smoke bombs really stunk up the block.

Halloween

 

if this ain't scary...

my favorite still life (from last weekend)

 

KB making ganache

 

paint for the kitchen (and bath)

 

Stretching ancora

dang that feels good.

I have a semi yoga routine.

the poses are not the practice. the state of mind is the practice.

I'm diggin on it

Cool Birds

 

Check out the little one in the middle with black outlines

Enduring the elements

 
With Amy, Sean and Evan (who about had enough)

KB finding our pumpkin

 

Harvestival

Our CSA hosted a bonfire, band , free beer, (VERY) cheap, good food, pumpkin pickin' Harvestival.

Was a lot of fun. Glad we went (and kb, I'm turning you in for taking that 'extra' pumpkin!

;)

thank you AAA

Paid 50 bucks to get a car battery booster, charge it and then left it in the trunk for almsot a year. (at least we only had to use it that frequently). But, when we needed it, it was drained. Dang.

Thank you AAA. we got our money's worth in that one trip.

Sorry babes.

The perils of not having a lights-on notifier and an idiot for a husband that leaves your car out in the driveway.

Oooops.

Maybe the Pork Roast made up for it??

Stretching

Been doing some stretching and mayn, it makes a difference. Feel pretty good and at the same time, the headaches are gone, the back feels great. KB on the other hand seems to be getting more and more tense. And we can't have that.

Need to get her into a routine with me or opposite me.

Geli's Groove

Was listening to World Cafe and a group called "5 years time" canme on. That rhythm was perfect for a Geli back scratch. Strumming the old Geli back. Weird. I haven't seen her smile and lean into it like that....probably ever. She was totally diggin' it.

my first Ratatoille

The CSA gave us everything needed for a ratatioulle.

This is the recipe I used:
http://southernfood.about.com/od/eggplantrecipes/r/bl00810c.htm

Still Surprising like summer

 

Our CatFace Spider

 

this thing is so plump it's scary. I think that she burst as she was gone today (as well as the smaller male that was on the web yesterday too) Maybe she's off to lay a thousand eggs.

...and the new toilet

 
REally like the new john. wish that we had these at the house here.

it's comfort height!