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Comment and I'll give you a letter then you have to post (in your journal) 10 things you love that start with that letter.

Karly gave me the letter "t".

1.trees
2.tea
3.tortillas
4.tchoutacabouffa river
5.tourquoise
6.the mars volta
7.trying
8.taking (naps, pictures, etc.)
9.talking
10.thinking

I just cannot get enough of the Alligator Farm.

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Hurricane chances slim ( Read more... )

Saturday I went to Dauphin Island (Alabama) with Miranda. There we learned that not all Jelly fish sting and they feel more like Sting Rays than globs of goo. Here are a couple of her shots....


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I am so used to bad news on the national stations that I wonder why I even watch them anymore. But last night, I shed the most meaningful and positive "news tears" I've shed in a very long time. First, a back story ( Read more... )

Here are some pics from my favorite lake in the world, located in the Sierra Nevada mountains some 5,000+ feet ubove sea level. Amazing.


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It is with a heavy heart and crushing grief that I tell you all that we had to put Bacchus to sleep yesterday. I am too worn out to give specifcs, but it was very sudden and very tragic as he was only five. We loved that dog so much, he was an important member of our most personal lives.


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"I would love to have them run out of town, but that is my personal view from a Christian standpoint. I do no want them lumped in with me," Payne says."

-From WLOX.com "the news for south mississippi".

Cracks. Me. Up.

I spent tuesday and wednesday at the Coastal Development Strategies and Smart Growth conference. It's an annual event that typically is an opportunity for planners to beg politicians for money with "new and ingenious ideas!". This year it centered around rebuliding after the storm. I was delighted to listen to expert after expert in fields ranging ( Read more... )