Category: Photography

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I enjoy looking for new ideas for photography. A year or so ago I discovered a photographer who mostly does self portraits, but they are done in unique and fun ways. She is starting a photo challenge and her first one is “Childhood”.

Yesterday, while taking Thor for a walk, the young lady who posed for me, fell hard, skinning up her knees and legs. Thankfully, she was just bruised up a little. But it made me remember all the band aids she would have asked for if she was still four. Or five. Or ten…

Once upon a time I knew a little girl who loved brightly colored band aids (the more the better) and Curious George. She believed in “sympathy band aids” for siblings not hurt, but especially for herself. She also almost always wore a band aid. Curious George was very often with her.

That little girl has grown up some. Curious George is still a friend (but saved to share with younger friends) and band aids are still used, though rarely as often or as brightly colored.

We have not received a lot of snow yet, but we did get enough on Monday and yesterday to go sledding.  Monday the hills were very crowded, so I am very glad we went early.  Today we were the only ones sledding!

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Continuing our tradition, we watched President Biden’s Inauguration today. 

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We lost electricity for 69 hours over the first week of January.  We do not have a generator, but we do have a gas stove and a fireplace.  That is a lot more than many people have.

While we sometimes were a little chilly, we spent our time enjoying family and playing.  It was a great weekend!

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We lost electricity Friday afternoon and it finally came back Monday while we ate lunch. It sounds like it should have been a horrible weekend, but we really enjoyed most of it. Thankful for a family who enjoys roughing it together.

So very thankful for my family. (Thanks Dad for taking this picture!)

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Catching up on some needed sleep.

What a lovely, cold snowy Christmas day.

We have enjoyed making ginger bread houses before, but this is the first time in a long time we created them from scratch. We split up in teams; Andrea and Megan made one house, Audrey and Adrian worked together on another and Allan and I designed one.  Andrea baked the gingerbread last night and each team “glued” them together to sit overnight.  This morning we spent a few hours decorating our houses.  

We had so much fun, that we decided to make this a yearly tradition.  Except next year we plan to draw names for teams.  All of the houses turned out wonderfully and we will enjoy them a few days before “maybe” eating them.

Which of these houses is your favorite?

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