This school year my three oldes kids enrolled in some online classes through a private classical school.  

It has required them to spend a lot more time on the computer-not just during the live class, but also doing homework, maintining logs, downloading and uploading assignments etc… The older 2 already had computers.  Number 3 and I were sharing mine, and it was getting tough.  Thus began my desire for a laptop.

By October, necessity pushed us into “just looking”.  Then I saw it.  There it was sitting on the store shelf.  I was smitten!  It was love at first site.  It was big enough. It was bad enough.  And doggone it, I liked it!  Mostimportantly, the graphics card could easily handle World of Warcraft. Ironically, I rarely play WoW  since I got my laptop. In addition to keeping up with all the school stuff, there are just too many fun things to do it.

 

Seperate me from my laptop?

 

I don’t think so.

I owe it all to my hubby. He pushed me to get one, picked out just the right one, and I am so grateful. Thanks, Honey!

Wuz

P.S. See those clothes on the bed……yeah, I should be dealing with those…..but laptops get jealous easily….that’s my story and I ‘m stickin’ to it.

I can’t sleep tonight.  The windows are open and the springlike breeze, at times a gust, just won’t let me. I slip out to the deck and the wood beneath my bare feet is like a long lost friend. It is so beautiful outside, and I don’t want to miss one minute of it.  Every winter we get a few days in a row with temps in the 60’s.  I think it is God’s way of getting us through the long, cold, gray winters here in the Midwest.

Tonight is like being on the beach in the spring.  At night.  It’s too cold to swim and too windy to hear anything like crickets or bullfrogs. The seagulls are all alseep, and there are few, if any, people.  The sky is clear with the moon glowing. Orion, Canis Major, Taurus, and others are clearly visible.  The air smells so good, so clean, so fresh.  It’s warm and cool at the same time. I feel alone, but not at all lonely, comforted by the Creator himself through His magnificent creation.

Back in my bed, the curtain of my window billows up with the gusts, and I hear the branches of the willow tree click and clack together. And ocassionally, I hear the snickers and whispers of my four oldest camping out on the trampoline with four cats snuggling up to them and one golden retriever standing guard.

All is right with the world.

 

These are our two puppies. Of course they aren’t puppies anymore, but we still call them that. 

 

K.C Chief is our golden retreiver.

 

 

Q-tip is our westie.

 

KC is just 2 years old.

 

Q-tip will be 10 years old this summer.

 

 

He is constantly pestering her to play.

 

She always takes the bait.

 

 

 

He really is being playful. Really.

 

And so is she.

 

 

But I stay out of their way.

Wuz

I am just going to play wit hsome of these photos. After all, hubby took about 30.

 

 

 

 

 

These two shots are straight out of the camera and not over-exposed.

 

 

 

On this shot, you can still see the shadow of camera-man dad to the right of the photo. But without being over-exposed, the shirt on the left isn’t as washed out.

 

 

 

Same with this shot- shadow on the right, sunlight on the left.

 

 

 

This shot was cropped and intentinally overexposed to wash out the background and highlight facial features. But I don’t like it.   .It’s too  much.  I haven’t had a chance to practice much with outdoor, sunny day shots, but I look forward to it

We had a freakish 65 degree day here in Kansas City recently. Very bizarre but much needed. So we all went to the park and made the  most of it. Here are a couple of my crew having a grand time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Sigh*

Wuzza