Happy Thanksgiving... well, early Thanksgiving. We had the family Thanksgiving dinner at Dave and Denise's last weekend. I know it was a week and a half early, but that's just the way we do it. I convinced Dave to brine the turkey with our Brine Recipe. Brenda made a Pumpkin Cheesecake. And we all got together for some good food, and good company. Of course we took some pictures. There are a few here, and more in the gallery.






It's nice when the family gets together.

Well here we are up at the lake for the weekend. It's the weekend before Thanksgiving, and boy is it cold! When we arrived at around 8:30 Friday night it was 14 degrees. At 7:00 this morning it was 0. ((((BRRR)))) So needless to say, we won't be doing any work outside this weekend. Oh, and the lake is already getting ice. Here's a quick picture that Brenda took this morning.



I don't know about you, but I was not ready for winter yet. Guess I am going to have to ge tused to it. It's going to be here for a while.

Brenda and I were cleaning out our spare bedroom the other day when we came across some old (pre-digital) pictures that we haven't seen in a while. Looking through these "old" pictures got me thinking... back when we used film for pictures we still took what I consider to be a lot of pictures. When we traveled we always had the camera, for family functions, etc... but now with the digital camera there is no hesitation to take bunches of pictures. In fact in the past 3 years we have taken some where in the neighborhood of 12,000 pictures on the digital. No, that's not a typo... of course a large proportion of these are not what I would consider to be keepers, but we also have a handy web page where we can store an almost infinite number of photos.

That is just one example of a newer technology that I take for granted. I can't even imagine life before the internet, or even life before Google. Then there is the DVR, flat screen TV's, cell phones, email on my cell phone, etc... It really is amazing to me how much things have changed in the past 10-15 years.

What technologies would you be lost without?

I can't wait to see what's next

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Well... I know it's more than a month late... but I thought I would put some pictures up from Kiana's Birthday. Oh, and happy Birthday Kiana...

And Of course, there are some more pictures in the gallery

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