The hubby and I went back to Benson last night to attend a very interesting meeting. With all the budget cuts going on and falling high school enrollment in Portland, the district is thinking of some very drastic changes ( Read more... )

We had our first girls game night last Saturday. Dominion dominated the first couple hours of play - YEAH! - while we waited for everyone to arrive and dig into the enchladas. Then we played a round of the bean game and, of course, exploded some cows (a classic silly game). By then it was pretty late. We fueled up on hot chocolate and dug into ( Read more... )

I am not usually a football fan, but I always end up watching the Superbowl anyway. This year was our second annual party with the boys across the street. About 20 of us packed into the house to watch it in the theater room or the TV on the main floor (where all the pot luck food was). 3-D glasses were everywhere for the half time special ( Read more... )

Wow, the snow is really coming down again! Already our street is covered in a couple inches. One of the elementary schools called me last night to work from noon till 4pm today, but I am not sure if they will still be open at that point. Not if it keeps going like this ( Read more... )

We got a chance to go over to the admiral's house this weekend for some fun and games. We got through a Game of Battlestar Galactica. It was rather short as it can be when the Cylons win. Then Cosmic encounters was pulled out for a few rounds. It is an interesting game, but it seems like the game is based more on chance than strategy. I prefer ( Read more... )

It had been such a long gap in my posts last time that I didn't get to say a whole lot for all that went on in the three weeks between posts ( Read more... )

I don't know where my extended vacation went. I got three weeks off of school and didn't get hardly anything useful done. The snow kept me at home most of the time, so in theory I should have gotten many things accomplished here. But not so in reality. Some time was taken up with cooking and baking (which I usually don't have time for). I did ( Read more... )

I have been enjoying the snow very much this last week. It has cost me quite a bit in lost appointments at the office, but it is not often that we get real snow. Enough soft powdery white stuff has dropped from the sky to turn our hill into a winter wonderland that Mt Hood could be proud of. Yesterday afternoon many of our residents were out ( Read more... )

We finally got our tree two days ago. Usually I like to go out and hunt one in the country side and cut it down fresh with my own hands (and the hubby's help). However, with time short and slippery winter weather, we simply went to the closest outdoor tree lot. The cold and the wind had my hands and ears numb within 3 minutes. At that point I ( Read more... )

Wow. Has it really been that long since I have posted? Well, there are a lot of things I could have said in the last few weeks. Our kitten is doing great. She is growing like crazy, as most kittens do. She is now about twice the size she was, but twice as skinny too. When getting her booster shots last week she weighed 2.8 lbs. She started ( Read more... )