Announcing William James Dodson!

He made his appearance at 12:46 a.m. on October 11th weighing in at 8 lbs 1 oz and measuring nineteen inches long. Besides a bruised face f...

pumpkin spice and all things nice

Fall has always been one of my favorite seasons. And not just because my birthday is in October and I equate the changing colors, falling le...

bird brained

A good description of ostriches: "Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth...

our very own corgi herder extraordinaire

Baldrick at the Corgi Herding fun day back in May - passing the instinct test with flying colors.

we've got a girl

My daughter is all girl. I painted her toes for the first time this weekend and she was completely enchanted. She sat perfectly still on the...

summer's come

And the living is easy. But also very busy. And hot. Being in the third trimester in the middle of summer and without air conditioning is no...

Hiking Hot Spots. Bagby Hot Springs.

Bagby Hot Springs. Fee: $5 recreation fee Hiking difficulty: easy We hiked here in late April when the parking lot was still a big sno...

Hiking Hot Spots. Ecola State Park.

The first time we came to Ecola State Park it just happened to be one of the hottest days of the summer and it seemed that the entire popula...

wild cat defined

I didn't appreciate how lucky we are that Peshewa turned out to be a semi-calm, baby-friendly cat (or how attached I became to our hideo...

in a bay below old cape cod

...surrounded by the brine, Stands an island we call Onset. Hail, oh hail to you! Onset Island, Onset Island, With your waters blue, In your...

it's whammer time

This is one whammerific video. Brings back a lot of whamalicious memories of the two summers that Clay was a part of the whamtastic legend. ...

crescent beach

Baldrick shows off his mad frisbee skills. Margaret stretches her legs after riding in her backpack for the 1.5 mile hike down to Cresce...

baby einstein

What can I say, Margaret's a bit sheltered. So when the Jones boys came to visit with their Baby Einstein video Margaret was quite thr...

my dressage career in a nutshell

My first attempt at uploading videos now that we finally have a new computer! This is my first dressage test at Highland Stables in Beavercr...

half way there!

Our little child that's baking in the oven... This little one followed in Margaret's footsteps and was pretty active during the u...

Hiking Hot Spots. Part I.

Upon Clay's suggestion I'm starting a new category in my blogging posts....reviews of hiking & camping spots. After having alrea...

a good haul

After months of driving by the Spicer Brothers produce stand in Oregon City with only good intentions of stopping we finally shopped there t...

good ol' dickens

"Publicly and privately, it were much better for the age in which he lived that he and the legion of whom he was one were designedly ba...

with a slow drawl

"'Six-guns and Ropes' was the starting name of this picture where I introduces myself to the screen. It was supposed to've ...

fighting like cats and dogs

Or, how to keep a dog and cat entertained for the afternoon:

latest craft project

Happy April Fools Day! Hope you're all enjoying the resulting revelries of the day. We're having an unusually quiet one this year (s...

weekend vacation

We made it home safely on Monday night from our weekend trip to Missouri. I think I'm mostly caught up on the laundry, unpacking and gro...

a new favorite

Clay and I tried out this simple recipe recently and have added it to our list of favorites. I think it was the best chicken noodle soup I h...

he's onto something

"... from whence I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, viz. that they are not as...

good quotes passed on from my libertarian grandpa

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. -- Jo...