Family Fun Day

Today's WW contribution should really be titled Satuday Winners, but that would be nit-picky, so we'll just leave it as is.


We spent Saturday in Cambria, in celebration of our wedding anniversary, which is this coming Thursday. You'll have to wait until then to see the professional-like photos of the actual big day (OH BOY!). To hold you over, I give you these. Enjoy!

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P.S. It's my sister's Birthday! Happy Birthday, Quart!

The Beauty of Nature (and Zach)

We went on a search for wildflowers...and we failed miserably. There are plenty along the side of the highway, but apparently as soon as you leave the freeway, the wildflowers shrivel up and die. The trip wasn't a total bust as we headed UP, UP, UP, UP, OVER, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN and DOWN the mountain. It was purdy.

Okay, so we saw a FEW wildflowers...from afar.

And because everyone deserves a good Zach fix, here you go.

Pre Dunk

Post (Unintentional) Dunk

Mmmmm....Prunes!

Having a bottle...and holding it all by his-self!

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The Aliens Have Invaded

Holy Hell, Internets. I have the worst, itchy-scratchy heebie jeebies right now. I just found this on my patio. Right. Outside. My Door. Alive.

Not the actual one outside my door. Image provided by Google. The one outside my door is MUCH more menacing looking. For Reals.

That, my friends, is a Potato Bug. Now, growing up, I knew Potato Bugs as these tiny, docile creatures:

NOT the freakish, nasty, shiver inducing, HUGE, disgusting, alien looking things that reside here in lovely California (and elsewhere? I'm too chicken shit to even look up much information on them because even LOOKING at them makes me squirm- so you're welcome for posting a photo here for you all to look at!). Anyway, the first time I ever saw one of these THINGS was actually the night I met DJ (warning sign?!). The daughter of the woman who's house we were at came screaming over to us that there was "A Potato Bug! A Potato Bug! Help! Help! Kill it! Kill it!" "Good lord" I thought "What a wussy" and then she took me over to it and from that moment on, my life has NEVER been the same. I live in constant fear of the things. They appear as if from nowhere. They're big and they look mean. And, the one on my patio just attacked Tahoe (see below) who yelped as if someone had stuck a knife in his eye. It is safely contained underneath a metal trash can lid until DJ gets home and can dispose of it properly. I would get rid of it if it were dead, but there's no way in Hell I'm going to get near one of those things alive.

And because I can't leave you with photos of that thing, here are a few more, in keeping with the alien theme.

I call this, Alien Pig:

I call this collection "Close Encounters of the Kissing Kind"

Have a good day! I hope I didn't induce any potato bug nightmares. I hope your children were not sitting on your lap when you looked at this. I hope you'll come back again!

Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful

Er, I mean, Don't Hate Me Because It's Beautiful Where I Live.


Yeah, that's what I meant.

With a whole lot of the country facing bitterly cold temperatures, snow and other un-fun winter related weather, I thought I would take this opportunity to give you a glimpse of what is ahead. What you have to look forward to. What YOUR life will be like soon. I am NOT trying to rub it in. I'm not, I promise.

Artichokes! Parsley! Cilantro!

Please ignore the Crabgrass in the upper right corner.

And be aware that if you plant cilantro one year, it will spread to

your ENTIRE garden the next year. You have to REALLY like

Cilantro or REALLY like weeding. Just to warn you.

Lucky for me I REALLY like Cilantro & DJ REALLY likes weeding.

Especially if he gets to pull out all my bulbs that are FINALLY sprouting after much anticipation.

Then he's all "OH. It looked like a weed."

And I'm all "Are you FREAKING KIDDING ME?!"

But that's neither here nor there.

Yellow Daisy Bush

Bulbs really DO come up sometimes!
Cactuses Cacti Succulents