ooof...

I am tired!  It has been a pretty full weekend.  I got to host "Book Club" on Friday, and we had a lively discussion about a book many of us felt a biy wishy-washy about.  The cast of characters were Jewish, so we had Manishevitz to complement our snacks.  Then after church Saturday, Tom and I played four extremely amusing games of The Game of LIFE.  A hoot...I don't remember it being as silly as when I played it at Grandma's house.  And today I ran errands, cleaned house, worked for a couple hours, and have been trying to spring-clean my closets.  I am pooped!  g'night...

pre-bad fish

beautiful, realxed ladies of columbine... These are a couple group shots after my thank you morning with the ladies.  It is hard to believe that about about seven years ago we first looked at the Columbine house to consider if it was a possible future home.  Goodness how we loved it...

Family Christmas photos

Ezra has a thing for Tom.  He loves checking him out, though rarely does he actually want to be held by Tom.  These pictures from Family Christmas in January are funny.  The first one Tom is make his squinty funny face at Ezra.  I think they're pretty cute together.  Jennifer just looks silly...I can only think she didn't get what she wanted from Santa.

New Years seafood

My dad has a history of making seafood chowder every New Years Day for those who can come and celebrate, eat, drink, and play games.  The chowder is improved upon each year, it seems, and so have the names of each year's soup pot's contents.  Tom and I improvised, and he made crab stuffed prawns with linguine and scallops.  It was amazing!!! I helped de-vein the shrimpies and stuff them with little balls of crab treats, but Tom made everything, including a really rich and creamy sauce to drizzle over it all.  Yummmmm...

blue skies...

If you live in Colorado, you know that blue skies are usually only a day away.  I decided to head in late to work to avoid the slippery mess of the morning.  An hour and a half of shoveling snow and clearing my car from a heavy load left me pretty swetty this morning, but my sidewalks are bone dry now.  The streets are steaming, and the gutters full of run-off.  Amazing!    It inspired a picture of the table and chair in the bakc heaped of snow.  This inspired downloading all sorts of pictures onto my computer - for your benefit.

the 25th...

Evidently sleeping through Sunday and missing work Monday (also sleeping through most of it), I ended up losing a day.  In a conversation with Mom tonight, I learned that today is the 26th.  It is not the 25th, which was yesterday, which is also Amy's birthday.  I knew the 25th was Wednesday, and I knew today is Thursday.  But somehow everything else didn't add up.  I am not sure exactly which day I lose, maybe the 26th, since tomorrow I will wake up on the 27th.    Anyway, the weather outside is frightful!  Finally!  I am really excited about the snowstorm because I have been waiting and waiting for moisture.  I have crossed my fingers over and over as I told wannabe community gardeners, "no" DUG would not be turning the water on early just because we had what seemed like two weeks of weather in the 70s.  Oh wait - I mean a whole month!  But for having come in like a little lamb, March is going out like a lion.  ROAR!!!  It is, of course, sad to hear my friends' flight was cancelled and to know there have been a lot of accidents and to think of the people who have been living outside or in cars with the nice weather and got caught unprepared.    So for the two hours I was at work, over two inches of snow accumulated on my car.  The snow came down so big and wet this morning that the streets outside were just wet.  But then crossing Downing to the office, the ground was slushy and white.  About noon the temperature dropped low enough that the roads in the neighborhood finally turned slick.  The snow has let up only temporarily, but the snow furiously flurrying outside now looks much smaller and drier.  The wind just keeps blowing it in.   So I am off to bundle up and dream of flowers and plants and trees sucking up the moisture for a beautiful spring!  buenos suenos...

Bad fish

"Bad fish" usually brings to mind a certain band I like, but Sturday night it brought up something different.  It seems the only thing that could have caused the tummy cramping, etc., unless it is the flu.  Tom and I went out for sushi at one of my old favorites, but I don't think we'll go back there again.  I went to bed feeling a bit heavy in the belly and by midnight I was tossing and turning, rubbing my belly to help digestion, and fighting the inevitable.  Yesterday I slept until it was time to go to bed again.  A hot shower and a delivery of 7-up and Gatorade from Tom were the highlights of the day, and possibly the plain piece of toast I kept down.  Yuck!   My body aches all over, which makes me wonder if the fish was just the trigger of something bigger.  I have slept for most of the past 48 hours, and I am still tired!  Ridiculous!  Well, T4B4me...