Heading for the mountains.

Our family goes to a small town in Central Colorado every other summer for a week or so. Typically our stays are about five or six days, with two days of travel on either side. This summer's trip will be a full week "in country", our longest yet. And all the "there" time is in the same cabin, another first.

So, we're in full-on shopping/packing/planning mode at the moment. Toiletries are taken care of for the family, the kids are starting to think about what they're packing and Jim should be at least a little packed from just coming back from his solo trip to CO, just this last week. I think I have mostly every thing I need, now it's to organize and plan/pack. The plan looks great in my head, no guesses as to actual practice.

Comments

Because I love a good silly joke.....

Q: What did the cow say to Baby Jesus upon arriving at the manger? Wait for it........ "Moo" I can't help myself - inside my head lurks the brain of a 12-year-old boy. :D Got any good silly jokes to share? Leave 'em in comments!

Okay, so....

I haven't cried yet. Am I supposed to? Will it make me feel better? What's the standard protocol here? I know the things to say to family members and patients when they have cancer, but what's the etiquette for the patient herself? I don't want this to be the All Cancer, All The Time blog, but damn it, I'm out of my element here. If someone has a clue, I have a whole bunch of quarters.

"so Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away...."

I've had an ongoing flirtation with photography since I was a kid, starting when I got my first Kodak 126 Instamatic at the age of 9 or so. Pictures, to me, are a tangible memory cue to happy times in my life and a photographic chronicle of my kids and grandkids during their journeys to adulthood and beyond. And to be completely honest, I do like looking at pictures of myself as the skinny young thing I was once upon a time. To take a picture is to grab a part of a memory to store it away for safekeeping. That said, as much as I enjoy taking pictures, I fear I am not very good at it. I want to be, I think I can be, but when I take pictures and look at them critically afterwards, I don't like what I see. My current camera is a point-and-shoot Nikon Coolpix L100 . It's a fine camera and easy to use, but I'm not very methodical about what and how I do things. I often don't remember what settings I use, so it's difficult for me to successfully edit my photos la...

The Penguin Papers

Search This Blog