Catching up

Sadly, I've fallen of the NaBloPoMo wagon. Life just got in the way. Our good friend and neighbor was involved in an accident on Thursday and things just kind of spiraled from there. We've been busy. I've been busy. Work's been crazy-busy.

I'm joining up on a new venture. It involves weightloss and blogging and friendship. There are several wonderful ladies involved, and it's sure to be a huge success!

Stop by tomorrow for a full disclosure ;)

Whatdoyouwanttoknow?

OMG! Are you sick of me yet? I am! This National Blog Posting Month is crazy. I'm not even halfway through the month, and I'm really grasping for things to post about. My life is not that interesting, people!!

So today, I'm going to open up it up to y'all. What do you want me to blog about? Do you have any burning questions. I know, there are only 6 of you, and you all already know my whole life story (practically), but surely you want to know something, right?! Something other that how many teeth Mia has, or what a genius BJ is, or how I have alligator hands from all the dishwashing I do.

Please, help a girl out!

Fall on the Frio

Today after I picked up BJ and his friend from school, we headed over to the Frio River to hunt for rock treasures, build a dam, and admire the beautiful fall foliage. It was a perfect day, although at 72 degrees, it was a little warm for my taste. But hey, it's Texas and that's the way it is.

BJ and the Cypress Trees

Cypress Foliage
Look Mommy, it's seaweed!

Impromptu dam building

More colors

I'm really having a good time getting to know my new camera. I adjust the settings and make the same shot several times so I can see what I get. It's fun and a great way to learn. I'm also getting back into Photoshop and relearning some editing techniques. It's amazing how much your forget when you don't use a skill for a long, long time. It's coming back though, and it doesn't hurt that if you Google Photoshop, you find hundreds of sites with free information and downloads and techniques. Wonderfully amazing.

I hope to find a little time everyday to stop and admire my surroundings. To photograph them in an artful way. To share them with you.

There really is beauty in everything, sometimes you just have to look a little harder to see it.

Old Time/New Time

The time change is in full swing. I'm sitting here on my front porch with ruby, my laptop, and it's dark. It's 6:45 and it's dark. So dark, we just saw a shooting star. That's dark.

What's the real purpose of Daylight Savings Time anyway? I guess I could Google it. I'll be right back.....

Okay, so yeah. WAY more info than I needed over at Wikipedia. In a nutshell, it seems DST was invented to save electricity back in the early 20th century. Recent studies have shown it makes no difference. Lots of studies show switching the time back and forth is a major pain, and DST was recently extended (started this year). So why switch back to standard time?

I guess it was nice to see a shooting star on my front porch at 6:45. My son was still awake, although I'm not sure he noticed it, but he does get to enjoy the stars tonight. Usually it's still daylight when he goes to bed (which reminds me of how much fun it is to switch back to DST and trying to explain why he has to go to bed when the sun it still way up in the sky).

So is it just me, or is this whole thing a little confusing? Referring to the time as "old time" or "new time" since it's all so new. Will it be darker in the morning or lighter? I guess lighter, huh? It doesn't really matter since we have to wake up at the crack of dawn anyway.....

I'm tired. Yes, it's taken me 3 hours to write this post, and I guess it's really 10:56 now, old time. I'm so busy with work, and my husband just left to go back to Houston, so I've had some distractions. I think I'll have a Reese's Peanut Butter cup and head to bed. Good-no-more-daylight-savings-time-night :)

NaBloPo.....huh?

I keep seeing NaBloPoMo all over the blogosphere. Until today, I had NO idea what it was. Of course I could have easily figured it out by clicking numerous links or even Googling it, which is what I ended up doing, but I'm just lazy like that. So NaBloPoMo (which as it turns out is a pain to type out) is National Blog Posting Month. See, I'm nice like that. I'll just tell you what it is, just in case you're lazy like me. Apparently you join up and promise to blog everyday in November. I guess I'm up for a challenge, so this is my kick-off post for NaPlo.......yeah, that thing I said before.

So here are a few pictures from Wild Game Dinner last night at BJ's school. More later, I promise. After I fully recover from being on my cowboy boot clad feet, while wearing Mia, for 12 hours. I'm pretty sure I'll be sitting all day today.