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It's fun to just throw my photos up in here.
I'm just quickly copy/pasting this here. It's a benefit garage sale in Agritopia for this family (pictured below), the two parents were in a plane crash back in August. I know the mother of the family is still in the hospital, I'm not sure about the father, actuallly he must be too. I'm going to try to go to it, really early on Saturday morning--I have a baby shower at 10 am in Phoenix, but I think I will have time to go if I can get up early. more info: http://www.nierecovery.com/
AZ Garage Sale What is cool even in the AZ summer heat??....wearing your heart on your sleeve!
Admit it: you like to help, and (perhaps even more) you like to buy stuff. Why not do both! Donate to a good cause (and purge your dust ridden household items) for the: "h♥pe for Nie" Nielson charity garage sale!
-Who: anyone who loves to donate or buy stuff
-What: furniture, household items, silent auctions, baked goods, nick knacks, gift certificates (and hopefully more to come!)
-Where: Agritopia Community Center (Agritopia Loop Rd Gilbert, AZ 85296) Turn right off the higley exit of the south loop of the 202 going eastbound. Agritopia is the 1st right off the freeway.
-When: Sat Sept 27th (7:00 am to 1 pm)
-Why: because we love Nie!
We will also be selling some of Stephanie's famous favorite baked good recipes (and some fresh cinnamon rolls!!). If you are interested in donating/volunteering your stuff, creations, time, entertainment (??) or if you just have mad baking skills please email me at csdike@yahoo.com Get involved....Sept 27th!!!
Download the flier and spread the word.
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fastest . summer . ever (in my whole entire life).
My map for the ESRI convention next month
yay! i can hardly wait to go to San Diego for the ESRI convention!
i am testing typepad widgits.
test
ok, so that's cool, it worked, but i actually thought it would show a picture of what one of my fav. blogs (that would be BLDGBLOG) looks like right now, but it doesn't it; it just shows what is on BLDGBLOG right now.
is the little pop-up thing kinda annoying? i hover over it and it doesn't pop back down very quickly. is it worth even having it.....hmmmm
A little note written on a paper towel years ago that I came across recently:
Beating Nebraska was super-important! I'm glad that he specified they were going to watch ASU beat Nebraska, and not just play Nebraska! And that they were taking the dog; otherwise I would have looked all over for her.
Here are some more pictures. I had actually uploaded some pictures and then the internet kinda crashed and so now I am uploading a few them sans much description.
LeAnn Rimes~Nothing Better To Do
I'm not even sure why I like this song so much. I like story songs. It's kinda a story. It makes me want to dance-dance-dance and I guess I just really like Rimes's voice in this song. And it reminds me of the May I drove to Georgia with Thuy and stayed there with her part of that summer.
i just tried to leave a comment on your blog. And yours too. (This happened twice tonight.) the second I went to publish, it disappeared. And people, I cannot even tell you how slow I type and how this is a really big deal. it took a long time to write that comment and when I re-read it, it didn't make all that much sense, so i messed around with the wording until it sounded more coherent.
whatever. i'm going to bed.
Every time I start to think about how pretty soon it's going to be in the hundreds not very long from now, how it won't be that long before it's hot + sweaty even at midnight in the shade, I remind myself that there is always swimming. And then then my spiraling-out-of-control heart calms down and I repeat to myself, Swimming. At least there's Swimming to look forward to. At least we have Swimming. It'll be okay...It'll be okay.
So when I read this below in the electronic newsletter that gets sent out every Wednesday at my work, I got really excited about it and tried to figure out how I can donate some swimsuits. I know I have a couple that I never wore last summer that no longer fit (how convenient, that) and I think I could buy some for not too much at Ross. But I also want to ask you, my friends who read this, if you have any extra swim suits/flip flops/beach towels, please let me have them so that I can donate them! Please! I just love the idea of making it possible for other people to go swimming, cuz really, you know it's going to get sooo hot pretty soon and what a nice way to make someone's day a little better.
HSD collecting swimwear for shelter families
As you shop for a new swim suit, remember there are homeless families who also need bathing suits and beach towels.
Human Services needs your help collecting new bathing suits, gently used or new beach towels and flip flops for families who reside at the city’s Watkins Overflow Shelter. The families need the swimwear for their weekly outings to University Pool. The department is seeking about 160 women’s bathing suits (including large sizes), 40 men’s trunks (including extra large), 150 suits for children between 5 and 14 years old and 100 suits for kids under 5. Also needed are swim diapers in various sizes.
Beginning May 12, donation drop-off sites will be at City Hall and the Calvin C. Goode Building; Police Administration, 620 W. Washington St.; Fire Administration, 150 S. 12th St.; and Parks and Recreation’s maintenance and aquatics section, 1802 W. Encanto Blvd.
For more information, call 602-256-4297.
Twice lately I have made key lime pie. So good.
This is the key lime pie recipe that I used.
The first time I actually squeezed almost all these tiny limes. The second time I got bigger limes and of course it went a lot faster.
I have just been reading about Mary Meader who, during the 1930s, at the age of 21, traveled to South America and Africa to make aerial photographs of places never before photographed that way. Since I work with aerial photos, her story really caught my eye. My, what adventures this girl had!
The saga began when Mrs. Meader, whose name was Mary Upjohn at the time, and her first husband, Dr. Richard Light, made plans to marry. They wanted to celebrate their union by approximating the highly publicized round-the-world flight he had made in 1934. She took flying lessons and learned Morse code to be her husband’s co-pilot, navigator and radio operator.
When they were planning their trip, soon after their marriage the next year, many parts of the world had still not been photographed from above. The American Geographical Society was encouraging photographic flights to build an archive of aerial views, and the couple’s idea was to fly over huge swaths of South America and Africa that had never been captured on film from the air.
“It just seemed like a great adventure — something I wanted to do,” she said in an interview with Encore, a magazine about Kalamazoo, in 2006. “Why? I’m not certain, other than we both knew we would be doing something that hadn’t been done before.”
The couple made what may be the earliest photographs of the ancient Nazca lines in Peru. The lines cannot be recognized as coherent figures except from the air. Seen from above, their patterns range from simple designs to stylized hummingbirds and llamas.
In Africa, Mrs. Meader’s photographs showed the stunning ice dome and crater of Mount Kilimanjaro and the serrated glaciated pinnacles of Mount Kenya in beauty and detail impossible in ground photography. She provided new views of native villages, urban areas and the Pyramids of Egypt, among many other subjects.
Her African pictures were published in a book written by her husband and published by the American Geographical Society. In reviewing the book for The New York Times in 1941, Mary L. Jobe Akeley called Mrs. Meader’s photos “superb.”
“They convey a sense of the vastness and grandeur of the continent,” she wrote.
She went on to have four children, remarry and be a philanthropist to schools in Michigan. It sounds like her work is at Western Michigan University, so note to self: if ever near WMU, try to check out Mary's aerial photographs.
some articles about her:
Pictures from last summer:
Rachel in the background, Rachel's dad Gray Ghost & Parthenia Jones (née Chickini) in the foreground. Gray Ghost's mom was either Gwen or Rock Dove. Rock Dove was later known as Kindergarten Queen because she was tiny as a kindergartener herself (really not bigger than a pigeon) and because she helped raise a brood of 18 babies that all hatched out on the same day.
Parthenia Jones is the remaining one of the original 7. Her siblings were the hens Princess and Tess and the roosters Coco, Petunia, Rockstar and Star. Star actually passed on last Sunday, he was the sweetest doll of a rooster and hopefully I can post pictures of him someday if I track down some old pictures. Wish I had taken more of him.
Chickens love tomatoes. How much, I can't even begin to say. Toast and avocado, well they'll eat that too, thank you very much.
Last night I got to see Mary J Blige and Beyonce's new husband Jay-Z in concert!
It was such a shiny bright show with beautiful lighting effects---I was really impressed. Of course, Mary didn't sing One, the song she has sung with Bono. And Jay-Z played only like two seconds of Crazy in Love, so for my (and possibly your) listening pleasure, here we will link to the youtube videos.
Eh, actually I guess I won't be showing Beyonce's song as Youtube seems to not let you embed the video.
A couple months ago, I came across the flickr site of a Texas photographer named Noel Kerns. He takes pictures of ghost towns and old, abandoned buildings. This reminds me that on the way back from California to Phoenix on the 10, I have sometimes noticed this old building out in the desert. I have always thought it would be so cool to go out and explore.
All photos by Noel Kerns. Go check out his flickr site.
Some pictures here, hidden here at imaginary lines. Hidden because I feel so strange putting up people's pictures in case they don't want them online, but I am in them too and they tell about my life. Some of the pictures may disappear in a few days.
Mmm, it's almost Christmas! It's been the strangest year, the most exhausting year and I have been afraid of Christmas since summer, worried how we 3 will be. I have some plans though to make things nice, but they are surprises and this girl reads here, so nothing to share yet.
I kinda want to have a party to celebrate the Twelfth Night of Christmas (that would be Jan. 5th), to have an Epiphany Feast, to gather and eat King Cakes and see who gets the cake with the baby in it. Whoever s/he is, s/he has to have a party on Feb 2, Candlemas. I have lots of ideas, but it seems like a lot of work. I have to decide really soon if I am going to do this or not.
Epiphany
Deep midwinter, the dark centre of the year,
Wake, O earth, awake,
Out on the hills a star appears,
Here lies the way for pilgrim kings,
Three magi on an ancient path,
Black hours begin their journeyings.Their star has risen in our hearts,
Empty thrones, abandoned fears,
Out on the hills their journey starts,
In dazzling darkness God appears.
Words: Judith Bingham
A moonbow, not sure where I pulled this picture from, but isn't it amazing. Apparently moonbows happen, but they are rare.
This is Avery. He's new around here. He's not so pointy anymore. He gets plenty to eat and even though he is still afraid of the dog, he's doing alright. He came to be with us the same evening I got my purple girl bike. Two wonderful newnesses on one single night in late September! Oh, and one thing I should tell you: while his name is Avery, everyone calls him Baby Bat.
Raleigh and the dicondra grass and the neighbor's house on a painfully hot night sometime back in early July.
AZ Sunset/early July/mercilessly hot night without any breeze on the ground.
McDonalds after record rainfall in Oklahoma City this time last week. We got the deliciosa Fruit and Walnut Salad and french fries, took it all back to the motel room and ate.
Mexican restaurant in Tulsa, 08/20/07under the moon. You can dine on the roof here. But we ate on the first floor, under all the Day of the Dead art, at a table with tall votive candles.
Anderson Cooper. But you knew that. On tv in the motel room. 08/21/07.
Me taking pictures of myself. Oklahoma motel room. 08/21/07
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I love this one. He's holding her dress. She's got her hair in curlers. They've just arrived at the church. Didn't you guys know about the convention most people take pretty seriously, about the bride and the groom not seeing each other until the wedding starts?
Yeah, they knew about that, they said, but they didn't care. They even went shopping for the dress together.