Bad luck comes in threes…

…so now I’m safe, right? First the hard drive on my MacBook crashed. Most everything was backed up, just lost some photos and 3 songs (there’s that number again!). Went to the Apple Store on Sat to get the hard drive replaced. Spent New Year’s eve/day getting everything reinstalled. Then we had two hardware problems […]

Vacation Day #3: Lichens

I like lichens — so many awesome colors, and such a neat “critter”. On vacation we learned that lichens don’t like pollution at all — so Austin must not be too bad since we still have some in the trees around our house. But they don’t compare to the ones in the Davis Mountains. This […]

Vacation Day #2: We found it!

We woke up hoping for more snow — but it was mostly melted — darn. So we decided to take our car out as far as we could on the jeep trails of the preserve and then do some more hiking. We were wishing we knew how to get to the beautiful canyon where we […]

Vacation Day #1: Snow!

Howdy all! Jason and I are back from our vacation in the Davis Mountains in west Texas. We had a ton of fun — we went hiking every day except for one “rest day” when we went on another adventure — more on that later. We left Austin on Friday, December 22 and drove to […]

peace

I’ll be pretty busy the next few days and doubt I’ll have time to post — but here’s one last Christmas card I wanted to share! I took this photo at Jason’s Grandma’s house when we were there over Thanksgiving. It made me feel so peaceful and happy. AND it reminded me of a stamp […]