TED

I have just recently found TED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design) talks and have been watching a lot of them. They are short amazing talks under 20 minutes on all kinds of subjects. I just watched this:

Goodbye Sweet Maxie Max

My brother Ryan and SIL Brooke had to help their sweet 8 year old rescue greyhound Max cross over so that he can chase rabbits. We always remind whoever has to do this very hard and painful job that all of our other cats and dogs will greet this one on the other side.

I am crying while typing this... Max was such a GREAT dog and we will all miss him!

Lucky Me!

Look what I received in the mail painted by my very own beautifully talented nephews!

An Easter Egg! Its the first (of many I hope) mail I received from them. It made me very happy! Thank you Colton and Graybug. I love you!

May everyone have a day filled with treats from loved ones. Happy Easter!

Come Tweet with Me

Ok, when I first heard about Twitter I thought it sounded dumb and did I really want to join another social network when I am already on Facebook. But, my SIL sent me an invite. With two little ones she and I dont get as much time to chat so I signed up. Imagine my surprise that I love it. Its quick and easy: a great way to stay in touch and find out whats going on. I am loving it. You can follow stars like the Obamas... but they twitter so much that I miss seeing the tweets from my SIL. So I opted out of those.

So come tweet with me! I'd be happy to send you an invite and you can see for yourself. (I dont like Facebook as much, but am also happy to send you an invite to Facebook too.)

DJ isnt....

spoiled is he? (gasp)

This made me soooooo happy.....

This morning in a family conference call with my Nevada City brother Michael and my Boulder family, my sister in law Brooke told me that she has an application on her IPhone that allows her to push a button and go right to my blog! WOW... who knew???! I just had to blog today so that they would have a something new to read!

My three year old nephew wanted to know what I was doing today so I told him that I was on vacation and going to a very pretty place where there are wild turkeys, hawks, and crows. (Of course I made the appropriate bird noises when naming each bird). I spent two very lovely days doing meditation and yoga at Spirit Rock. The grounds are so stunningly peaceful and beautiful. Here are a few pictures from my day (I tried to get the birds... but that just wasn't to be).

Learning Curve

I am having fun playing with my new Mac, but theres definitely a learning curve... especially with photoshop elements.

Speaking of learning curves I wanted to post a picture of my bird quilt from Jane LaFazio's class. It came out just ok... I really struggled with it. I cant wait for her to offer another class though.


The last project I am doing for her class is a shrine. I need to do a lot of handwork on it... so it may take me awhile to finish it, but here it is as a WIP: