My parents cat, Fred, is F-A-T fat! Seriously, he weighs like 23 pounds! He is so fat that in order to bathe himself, he has to lean against a wall or other vertical surface to be able to reach hi...Read More
I have been working on re-modeling (rearranging furniture, really) and re-organizing our office at home. My first post about this project talked about what a Hot Mess the office was. The furnitur...Read More
Big Horn Sheep During Spring Break, I had to go to Portland for a day. I have seen the big-horn sheep in the Columbia River Gorge almost every time I’ve been to Portland in the past several ye...Read More
My dad is a woodworker. He has been making things out of wood for as long as I can remember. Most of the stuff he made while Erika and I were growing up looked nice, but was built more for fun...Read More
**DISCLAIMER** My dad would never call a game from the sidelines, and he would never vocalize any disagreements with the calls on the floor. The year we built our house was really hard on all of our...Read More
Post-A-Day 2011: Describe the town where you grew up. La Grande, Oregon The official description of La Grande from the Union County Tourism website: Nestled at the feet of the Blue Mountains on...Read More
Post-A-Day 2011: What can’t you say no to? Everyone has an addiction or a weakness of some sort – the inability to say “no” to something. For me, there are two things I have n...Read More
Reagan’s list of heroes has grown exponentially over the past year. Until last Fall, her list was pretty short, and it was pretty easy to understand. Her biggest sister, Emma, was on top of ...Read More
38-years-ago today the pretty blonde lady in this picture became a mother – it just so happens it was to that super cute bald baby in the picture. This picture is from when we lived in Costa R...Read More
For anyone who knows me and knows my parents at all, knows a lot about my dad. He is an Animal Behaviorist – basically a fancy term for a psychologist for animals – and he’ll kill ...Read More
I have always known my parents were a little off center mentally, but now I have proof (though I’d have loved to do what they did, too!). I already talked about their trip to Park City, Utah, an...Read More
Not really. My parents have been on vacation. They’re actually getting ready to head home tomorrow. I’m not jealous because they worked their butts off for a very long time in order to...Read More
