HAPPY NEW FRACTURE!
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Sierra Gets A Haircut
Sierra has never really had a haircut, some trims yes, but minor
adjustments. Rather that endure the hassle of doing her hair in the
morning, we made an agreement that she could manage her hair by herself
if it was cut to a length she could manage. Additionally she decided to
send her ponytail to Locks of Love to be made into a wig for little
girls with cancer or other diseases where treatment causes hair loss.
We are vey proud of her, and her new look.
After . . .
Monday, January 21, 2008
Catching up
Trying
to get things updated. Sierra got her cast off Monday morning 2/12. She
had a fun time at the schools 70's dance last Friday night 2/9, I'll
try to get the video clip online soon. Hope everyone is having a great
valentines day.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Happy Birthday Sierra
Happy Birthday Sierra. Her party will be a backyard slumber party
April 5. Her playset is finally done, and she is enjoying it. We also
went to the last day of this years Rene Faire where we spent a lot of
money and had fun. Sierra went as a fairy (surprise surprise).
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Happy Birthday Sierra
Sierras 10th. birthday party was a campout themed slumber party
with over 11 girls. Everyone seemed to have fun, we slept a lot on
Sunday.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
We finally got to try out the new tent camper. In pioneer times trappers from the Hudson Bay company would set out a test camp a few hours from the post to make sure they had everything. This was our version, camping at Lake Pleasant about 30 miles from the house. It was windy, and we did try out the furnace Sunday morning, everything seemed to work find, Now for a few more shakedown trips before we take off on vacation.
Earth Day came and went. I was pleased to see more awaremess of it, five years ago I thought it was a goner. So what do we do to be green? Over 95% of all the light bulbs are CFL, We compost for our garden, we recycle as much as we can. We conserve water and electricity We have a Prius. Most of the backyard is lighted by solar lights, including two strings of "holiday" solar lights in the new gazebo. (has a cool glow, almost like a full moon) We have a large solar oven that cooks just fine thank you. The big solar array project is about to start powering the fish pond (we use the sludge as a high grade organic fertilizer) and light the sheds.
Ginger had to go through
surgery to remove a cancerous tumor and get spayed to stop the advance
of a number of other tumors. She seems to be doing much better, although
she can't wait to have her sutures removed so she can lounge out in the
lawn again. We know the cancer will eventually be back and will
eventually kill her, but we have bought this gentle grand old dog some
time.
May 25 was my (J.D.) birthday. We were going to take the camper up to Flagstaff but a late winter storm with lots of high wind and even SNOW prevented that. So we went to some places I wanted to go. The Art Museum, The Ocean Floor aquarium shop, and this place, Arizona Falls. Dinner at Red Lobster finished off a nice day.
New Tent Camper gets tryout
We finally got to try out the new tent camper. In pioneer times trappers from the Hudson Bay company would set out a test camp a few hours from the post to make sure they had everything. This was our version, camping at Lake Pleasant about 30 miles from the house. It was windy, and we did try out the furnace Sunday morning, everything seemed to work find, Now for a few more shakedown trips before we take off on vacation.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Earth Day 2008
Earth Day came and went. I was pleased to see more awaremess of it, five years ago I thought it was a goner. So what do we do to be green? Over 95% of all the light bulbs are CFL, We compost for our garden, we recycle as much as we can. We conserve water and electricity We have a Prius. Most of the backyard is lighted by solar lights, including two strings of "holiday" solar lights in the new gazebo. (has a cool glow, almost like a full moon) We have a large solar oven that cooks just fine thank you. The big solar array project is about to start powering the fish pond (we use the sludge as a high grade organic fertilizer) and light the sheds.
Ginger goes through surgery
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Happy Birthday . . . To ME!
May 25 was my (J.D.) birthday. We were going to take the camper up to Flagstaff but a late winter storm with lots of high wind and even SNOW prevented that. So we went to some places I wanted to go. The Art Museum, The Ocean Floor aquarium shop, and this place, Arizona Falls. Dinner at Red Lobster finished off a nice day.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Pond Lilly heralds Summer
It's been a wierd start to
summer. It snows 4 inches in Flagstaff then we hit 110 degrees, less
than 5 days later it snows in Flagstaff again! The Koi Pond is finally
clean and crystal clear. I'll probably have to clean the filters every
week, but it's worth it. We were rewarded with the first Pond Lily to
bloom. Looks like some of the fish are full of eggs too.
Ginger has been very frolicy and active, She lost a lot of weight up to
the surgery but her appitite has returned.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Gas Hits $4.05 at Costco
So Sue gets a Green Vespa Scooter for driving to and from work.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Happy 28th. of June!
Since we decided to spend the
fourth of July in Flagstaff this year, we decided to attend the local
parks fireworks display. They always try to have their display the
Saturday before the fourth of July. That works since Flagstaff has
banned fireworks displays forever. It was hot, but fun. next weekend
Flagstaff.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Flag On The Fourth
We took the Fourth of July weekend and went to
Flagstaff. This was the second shakedown for the camper trailer and it
did fine. The Jeep did fairly well towing it up the mountain. Did 11
MPG and stayed above 45 MPH.
It rained right after we set up and it was very nice. Later we had a picnic dinner with our Flagstaff friends Kat & Scott. Kat had to work but Scott went with us to the Flagstaff Art event First Friday. It was quite crowded downtown. Did run into our friends Pete & Donna who were also up in Flag escaping the heat.
We spent some time shopping for Sierra's School Clothes and stopped by the Art in the Park Art show.
Sunday on the way out we stopped at Kat & Scott's house to visit and tour all the changes they have made.
Got into town with only traffic getting bad around Pinnacle Peak Road.
It rained right after we set up and it was very nice. Later we had a picnic dinner with our Flagstaff friends Kat & Scott. Kat had to work but Scott went with us to the Flagstaff Art event First Friday. It was quite crowded downtown. Did run into our friends Pete & Donna who were also up in Flag escaping the heat.
We spent some time shopping for Sierra's School Clothes and stopped by the Art in the Park Art show.
Sunday on the way out we stopped at Kat & Scott's house to visit and tour all the changes they have made.
Got into town with only traffic getting bad around Pinnacle Peak Road.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
SMILE and say GOOGLE!
Well,
the Google street view camera car must have been by. If you go to
Google and type in our address then hit "Map", you will see our street
view photo. By close observation we think they were by around
Thanksgiving. They even have the car the police was using while staking
out the neighborhood. Technology, it's wild.
Heres the Google Map Camera Car getting a ticket!
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/google-maps-prius-hybrid-ticket-police.php
Heres the Google Map Camera Car getting a ticket!
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/google-maps-prius-hybrid-ticket-police.php
Thursday, July 31, 2008
ON LOCATION - Waldport Oregon
Welcome from cool foggy Waldport. It was foggy when we came in last night, REALLY foggy over night, and is still foggy.
Went to the Oregon Vortex as part of our "Vortexes of the World" tour. It was interesting. Sue and Sierra actally got a bit sick to the stomach in it. I was disoriented and felt severely off center. I mean more than normal.
Blackberry bushes EVERYWHERE on the trip Medford and inland. At the last KOA Sierra and I picked some for breakfast. Photos later.
Went to the Oregon Vortex as part of our "Vortexes of the World" tour. It was interesting. Sue and Sierra actally got a bit sick to the stomach in it. I was disoriented and felt severely off center. I mean more than normal.
Blackberry bushes EVERYWHERE on the trip Medford and inland. At the last KOA Sierra and I picked some for breakfast. Photos later.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Sierras First Day in Fifth Grade
We made it back from our Vacation around midnight
Sunday Aug. 10 Sierra slept in the car most of the way and good thing
as her first day of School for Fifth Grade was 9 hours later.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Composting Away
Friends Carrie and Kieth
moved to Maine, we helped Carrie get the last of their household into a
rather small moving truck. Sue pulled off a minor miracle in getting
almost everything into the truck, but a few items simply could not be
loaded. Donna and Pete went above and beyond by picking it up in their
truck and dropping it off at our house. (Extremely out of the way).
Although we have four bins we just can not get the time to keep them
turned and properly moist to compost. Mostly lots of dried grass and
mummified kitchen scraps. With this rotating drum composter we can
really get the break down to black gold that we are looking for. The
small green pail is the inside compost bucket we bought at Real Goods in
Hopland California while on vacation.
Sierra the Pirate and Angel the Unicorn rider
went out on a quest for candy Halloween night. They got plenty of booty.
Picture taken by our neighbor Kelly. It is taken in our front yard
with this years decorations.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Curtains for the Treefort
When our friends moved to Maine, Carrie gave Sierra a beaded door
curtain. Sue rebuilt it so it would cover two doors on her treefort
playset.
Today is the first day of
Fall. It was at least 102 degrees by my weather station. Last Saturday
Sierra joined Soccer. So we are now officially "Soccer Parents".
Monday, September 22, 2008
Oak Creek Campout
We took a quickly arranged campout to Oak Creek
Canyon Oct. 11-13. Sue, Sierra and myself along with Rob, Theresa and
their friends.We went to the Trout Farm and caught dinner, it was
delicious. It was COLD Saturday night, and was very chilly all day
Sunday. it warmed up Monday as we left. It was a very fun trip.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Happy Halloween 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Busy Weekend
The second weekend of November was a busy one. Sierra had her first
Soccer game. Only six from her team showed up and they were trounced.
She stayed for the second game to help out as they were short too. I'll
say, most on the other team were easily 5 or more inches taller than
they were. Again with the trounce.
Sunday I set out some nice pork chops in the solar cooker, they were cooking nicely even though it was partly cloudy, so we went to Costco for groceries. A thunderstorm came through with very heavy rain. When we got back to the house the cooker was wet but the chops were looking good. They were still at 107 degrees, we put them into the microwave to get them back up to heat. They were good. I then bought gas for the car at Costco and looking at the $2.28 per gal price reflected that only four months ago I paid $4.50 per gal in northern California.
Sunday I set out some nice pork chops in the solar cooker, they were cooking nicely even though it was partly cloudy, so we went to Costco for groceries. A thunderstorm came through with very heavy rain. When we got back to the house the cooker was wet but the chops were looking good. They were still at 107 degrees, we put them into the microwave to get them back up to heat. They were good. I then bought gas for the car at Costco and looking at the $2.28 per gal price reflected that only four months ago I paid $4.50 per gal in northern California.
My Soccer Tournament
On
November 15,2008 was one of my most exciting days yet of my life. My
team's name was the Grizzlies and it was not so pretty, so here's what
happened. I had 3 games, my first game we got 0 goals, the second game
all we got was 1 goal, our third game we got 3 goals and guess what we
won but we didn't get to go to the championship.We were all tired after the tournament but we could walk. So that's my soccer tournament. - Sierra Fulkerson
Monday, November 17, 2008
Mikes Home!
We got a welcome telephone call from Mike on Monday that he was home from Iraq. Welcome Home!!!
We borrowed an idea from Pete & Donna and had a tree trimming party ourselves. Turned out pretty good!.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
2008 Christmas Tree
Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly is one of Sue and my favorite contemporary artists. His
medium is glass, and he loves big installations. The momemt I found out
that the Desert Botanical Garden would have one of his installations, we
knew we had to go. Thanks to friends Pete & Donna (members of the
garden) we got to go for free.
Needless to say we really enjoyed the three hours we spent there. Sierra was overcome by the works and loved it as much as we did. We imagine it is incredible at night. We have selected some of the 122 photos we took and put them in the album. Some are a lot larger, so be sure to click on them to get the largest size.
Needless to say we really enjoyed the three hours we spent there. Sierra was overcome by the works and loved it as much as we did. We imagine it is incredible at night. We have selected some of the 122 photos we took and put them in the album. Some are a lot larger, so be sure to click on them to get the largest size.
Merry Christmas 2008
Merry Christmas 2008 from rainy Phoenix. A good day to just veg around the house and enjoy the company of family.
Despite our current economic crunch (me out of work for two weeks) we pulled off a good Christmas thanks to extreme bargain hunting, the internet and stores going out of business.
We take a moment to thank our blessings that we had a good Christmas. We had an extended family dinner Christmas Eve at Rob & Theresas with Bob & Judy. It was fun for everyone. Photos in the Album section.
Hope all our readers also had a Merry Christmas.
Despite our current economic crunch (me out of work for two weeks) we pulled off a good Christmas thanks to extreme bargain hunting, the internet and stores going out of business.
We take a moment to thank our blessings that we had a good Christmas. We had an extended family dinner Christmas Eve at Rob & Theresas with Bob & Judy. It was fun for everyone. Photos in the Album section.
Hope all our readers also had a Merry Christmas.
Light Rail Opens!
The Phoenix Light Rail system opened on Saturday, we waited until Monday figuring the crowds would have thinned out.
WRONG!
The trains were packed. I started calling it the Phoenix Sardine Rail packed in light oil. As the line is free until January 1, Sierra and I rode the entire route from Christown to Dobson in Mesa. On the way back we thought we would stop in Tempe and walk around the lake, but with the crowd I decided not to as we would sacrifice our seat for a guarantee of standing for the rest of the trip.
The trip was suppose to be 1 hour each way but wound up 2 hours each way. Once everything settles it will probabaly improve to their projections.
WRONG!
The trains were packed. I started calling it the Phoenix Sardine Rail packed in light oil. As the line is free until January 1, Sierra and I rode the entire route from Christown to Dobson in Mesa. On the way back we thought we would stop in Tempe and walk around the lake, but with the crowd I decided not to as we would sacrifice our seat for a guarantee of standing for the rest of the trip.
The trip was suppose to be 1 hour each way but wound up 2 hours each way. Once everything settles it will probabaly improve to their projections.
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