Life at our house. Dinner with friends, a little vodka and suddenly wine cork art appears.
January 27th was Derby’s day on the CuteOverload.com calendar! We were all very excited. Well, Art and I were. Derby seems to be characteristically disapproving.
[tags]disapproving, derby, cinnamon, cute, cuteoverload[/tags]
Art and I made it down to the mall for the Inauguration of our 44th president today. Art has been in DC for 16 year and I’ve been here for 12 and this is the first inauguration either of us felt compelled to attend. We’ve attended various inaugural events in the past, but never seen the swearing in of a president in person before. We met up with my sister Amy and headed down to the mall for our chance to see President Barack Hussein Obama sworn into office.
It did turn out that much of the published information about how to get around was wrong. The parade route crossover at 12th street NW was never opened, so we had to trek down to 18th street.
I don’t think there will be another president in our lifetime that we feel the need to go to an inauguration, but you never know. It was cold and there was an insane amount of people, but it was worth it. I’ve never felt this good after an election, ever! Tomorrow it’s back to work, but today was an amazing celebration of our country.
[tags]1.20.2009, obama, inauguration, i was there, washington dc[/tags]
No pie for you if you vote McCain. Art’s already voted because he’s working at the polls on Tuesday. I’ve got my pencil sharpened and ready. Hey — Barack — how about a vote in Congress for your loyal DC voters? (knocking on wood…)
*contains no obamas
[tags]obama, election, apple pie, voting[/tags]
Photo Collage from our Adirondack Adventure back to Heart Lake. Head over to Flickr to see more!
Now fork over that trail mix.
And the lemonade, too. I’m thirsty
Thanks to Floofle for bringing this fun meme to my attention.
Head over to Flickr to see what each image is about.
Flickr game:
the rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker).
the questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.
1. Carly inspired, 2. “I, Piórko, like Cheese!”, 3. Oliver Ames High School, North Easton, Mass., 4. ♫ YO Yo yo, there’s no place like a green penthouse… so i told the genie i wanted to be well hung. ^o^ ♫ nah… wildlife from singapore♫, 5. Hugh Jackman, 6. Kombucha, 7. ????????Flying in Time…, 8. homemade berry ice cream, 9. Kohenet – Tzovah Initiation, 10. Local Kicks Covers the Alexandria Arts Festival, 11. abundance prayer, 12. IMG_7087
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
No other way to describe last weekend but a grand adventure.
Saturday
We set out on a spring Ramp hunt. As you can see from the picture of Art lounging in the Ramps, we found plenty. But…we also found this sweet little toad
who posed for a few pictures and then lead us right to:
That’s right – $50/lb morel mushrooms. That shot is actually of the exact morel mushroom the toad was kind enough to draw my attention to! We found about a dozen more.
mebeli
There was also a good deal of cooperative wildlife that day, including this snake who posed for several shots.
Sunday
I can sum up Sunday in one word: Goslings.
More insanely cute gosling pictures on Flickr.
[tags]spring, adventures, ramps, morels, goslings, foraging[/tags]
Yes, Derby — he is. And we are very excited.
