Showing posts with label Dates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dates. Show all posts

Friday, May 17, 2013

And that's all my phone has to say about that...

 
planted some grass seed in our back yard. it is amazing for the amount it rains out here how dry stuff can get. and how moss can choke out the existence of all things. also, how bird would rather peck at my grass seeds than eat from their feeder.
 
flash back to JoJo circa 2009. I think this was his favorite shirt.
the back says "chain saw brutality, tornado strength"
 Back in the day of hardcore bands, size small, skin tight shirts, long hair and skinny pants.
(good lord...) (and no, those weren't not his sunglasses, thank you Jesus.)
now its my shirt. strangely, it seems to fit pretty well.
 this both fascinates and disturbs me. so I wear it because it is laughable.
 
there isn't much that the kitty boy loves more than popcorn. it is second only to milk.
every night we munch some while we watch TV and Trink begs until we throw him some little kernelless pieces.if we aren't quick enough he tries to steal from us.
We throw it, and he catches them between his front paws.
 It is adorable. So we keep allowing it.
(we don't feed him people food...save for milk, popcorn and pretzels...)
 
what is this weird thing, you ask?
 a washing machine drum. purchased on craigslist for $25. Why? Because my cool welding husband is going to transform it into a super backyard fire pit. quite excited about that project! (note: its upside down in the picture)
 
there are few things more curious and suspicious than feet under the covers. cats are so silly.
 
you know those people on facebook who seem to constantly be getting free samples in the mail? I'm one of them now.
 
my mother in law just had kittens!!! 4 little itty bitty black ones! 
 well, her cat did...obviously. next time we are home visiting we are taking one (or two or all of them, according to JoJo) back home with us. Trink needs a baby sister. Just think, then you can all endure constant pictures of ALL our cats! Yup. We're crazy cat people. Deal with it.
 
Giant garlic clove. Next to an average sized mushroom. This intrigued me for unknown reasons.
 
this weekend we are attending a birthday party for our friend's fabulous baby girl. she is turning one. and i wanted to buy here every outfit in the store, but settled on this one as she like to play in dirt and garden.
 
my cat has an eyebrow nibbling fetish. it is weird. as you can tell, we own Mr. Kitty Personality, over here.
 
Pearls! Real ones!
 Anniversary gift from my love for me to be fancy and fabulous in Hawaii.
According to the anniversary chart thing, your 1st anniversary is paper and your 30th is pearls. I don't understand any of that stuff one bit, but lets just pretend JoJo is prophesying into our marriage with these. Besides...who wants paper?
Unless its plane tickets to Hawaii. Those were good too :P
 
most importantly, this week I finished school and began packing (and forming detailed lists of attractions, activities, stores and restaurants) for OAHU!!! We leave Tuesday. We never had an actual honeymoon, as he deployed shortly after our wedding, so this is our honeymoon and one year anniversary and first vacation all rolled into one. We are excited out of our minds over here. Don't worry, thousands of (quality, not phone) pictures to come!

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Weekend Walk on the Tacoma Nature Trail

This past weekend was gorgeous. Mid seventies up to eighties. 0% chance of rain (which is rare out here!). Finally, as the weather warms up we are getting a chance to enjoy Washington's beautiful outdoors. We have so much on our to do list of outdoor activities, but this week we started small.
Saturday we took a hike. Well...it was more of a walk. We had planned on a 5 mile hike deep in the woods, but it was my husband's turn to carry his shop's emergency duty phone which meant if he got a call he had an hour to get to it and being 5 miles in the woods wouldn't work. So, instead of our initially planned hiking location (coming soon!) we went to the Tacoma Nature Center.

It was nice to be out in the woods, even if it was only for an hour (about 2 miles). We looped around Snake Lake. I had read about it in a hiking book and was led to believe that it is a "moderate" trail on the ranking of difficulty...but...apparently we are a lot more hard core woodsy than we realized. Some parts of the trail were very pretty, but unfortunately the trail runs along the highway. It is hard to feel like you are enjoying the wilderness with car-noise in the back ground. Very little incline and overall un-treacherous trail. I guess it would be a fantastic place to go with little kids, but for two outdoorsy adults it was a little disappointing.
We did enjoy the weather. The sound of birds is always nice. We looked at the pond and admired the very tall trees. I picked a huge bunch of wild flowers. JoJo patiently stopped and waiting every time I made a stop to pluck some sort of fern. We talked. We saw a nasty giant ant mound (they are everywhere in Washington. It's scary). We followed a trail of ants. And on the way home, we stopped and had half-off Frappuccinos from Starbucks.
Overall, it was a lovely little Saturday date.

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