Other People's Junk...

Every year our community has a clean-up day for the roadsides and riverbanks as part of Earth Day. This year we decided to help...it was a good lesson for the kids and Rick really enjoyed (sarcasm) lugging all the "big" stuff from the ditch to the side of the road. Wanna hear what we found? Oh, sure you do...

A recliner

A dresser

9 tires (car, truck and bike)

carpeting

and Rick's personal favorite...a TOILET!

And we can't leave out the beer bottles, plastic pop bottles and just plain every day trash. And let me just say this to all the people who threw this stuff there...next time you think about pitching your crap to the side of the road...DON'T!

Happy Earth Day (one day early)!

Easter...

The Easter Bunny has soooooo much fun filling baskets for kids who don't eat chocolate!!

Because there is some sort of law that say's a chocolate bunny MUST be placed in each child's basket Rick, Aunt Julie and myself had to eat them ourselves...don't ya just feel sorry for us?

Finally, the weather made it possible for the bunny to hide the eggs OUTSIDE! And, no, these are not the pants he wore to church!
Apparently you must run when looking for easter eggs...like they're going anywhere. Oh, I guess they could end up in her brothers bucket...and just for the record they did count who got more. That would be Sam 24 to 21.

Funny how the egg dying pictures are relatively the same every year, just older looking kids.

HAPPY SPRING!

Stress...

My Photoshop program hates me. I don't know what I did to it but it is causing me enormous amounts of stress. For everyone who watched last nights school board meeting on cable access channel 8 and who doesn't?, you will know that I really don't need anymore stress. So, I have decided that since the owners manual (worthless), Photoshop for Dummies book (also, worthless) and the online troubleshooting (you've got to be kidding me??) didn't work I am going to un-install Photoshop and re-install it. My stomach just turned over in knots even writing that, I'm definitely not going to say it out loud...that may just push me over the edge!

I have spent forever backing up, double checking, triple checking and quadruple checking to make sure every last photo and project is on a disc somewhere. Whether I'll be able to find them again is another story. Until I resolve this problem please enjoy a couple of photos from Photoshop past...

Wish me luck.

Forty...

Happy Birthday to my best friend! I love you.