Gaseous Slogan
December 18, 2007 – 2:21 am
“I love natural gas”? Too many fart jokes to even begin listing…
Christmas Tree Time at Sleighbells
December 10, 2007 – 7:01 pmCodi and I went to Sleighbells of Sherwood
again to get our Christmas tree. This year, however, we got two trees - one for inside our house and a little one for the front porch. The tree on the porch is pretty cute.
Here are some photos that Codi took while we were at Sleighbells.
Mt. Hood from Sherwood
Nice angle on a pine tree.
Santa, of course!
Pine cones are everywhere.
Aguamobile
December 3, 2007 – 9:03 pmIt’s been a little rainy here in Oregon. Well, it’s been pouring. A lot. On the way home this evening, Codi and I noticed a car half way under water after a flash flood from an over-full river nearby. Woops.
Quotes Again
December 1, 2007 – 10:17 amWe should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. - Frank Tibolt
Desktop Image - Thistle
November 24, 2007 – 1:20 amThis is one of my favorite flora photos from 2007. It’s simple, but the colors are intriguing to me. I took the photo in Dundee, Oregon around July 27th. Click on the image for a 1680×1050 version, good for desktop use.
Canon Rebel XTi, 100mm, 1/200 sec, f/4
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2007 – 9:22 pmWell, it’s that time of year again - ghosts, goblins and sugar highs. The J&C household is prepped with at least 10lbs of candy. =) Here are this year’s pumpkins.
Clean-Up on Aisle 5
September 7, 2007 – 1:52 amToday was a little more exciting that I had planned. On my way back from the wine country, I happened upon a fresh accident. It seems that a pickup truck and a station wagon had gotten a little too close and, like the “pit maneuver” on the TV show Cops, a little tap on the rear left bumper sent the station wagon into a spin. The spinning car tapped another car, sending both into another spin, with both cars coming to a stop facing oncoming traffic. Wow.
When I approached the scene, I noticed that no one else had stopped, even though there were hundreds of witnesses. How rude and irresponsible some people are! Geez!
Anyway, I pulled over and checked everyone in their cars to make sure there were no serious injuries. Cars were still driving really close to the accident, so I had to get one lady out of her car. Then I got a bunch of road flares out of my trunk and blocked off the lane with all the spun cars in it. I found some road cones on the side of the highway from recent construction, so I used those. (Can you believe some people were dodging the cones and flares to get a better place in traffic?!)
It looked like the police were going to be a while, and I knew at some point one of the idiot drivers passing by would create some havoc, so the lane needed to be cleared. One guy in a truck pulled over to help me divert traffic so I could move the damaged cars out of the incoming traffic.
Once things were cleaned up, it was a matter of waiting for the cops to arrive. Once they did, it took another 30-40 minutes to get things squared away. In the end, all was well and no one was seriously injured. The cops, firemen and EMTs said I did a great job handling the scene. Aww, golly. =)
The moral of the story - carry an emergency road kit in case someone is in need; help people if you see they need help; and don’t drive like an sh*t head when approaching the scene of an accident. Thank you.
Time Flies When Your Slaving Away
August 14, 2007 – 5:25 pmI’ve been working so hard and so many hours over the past few months that I feel like I’ve been in a Soviet labor camp. My free time for posting photos and fun stories has been reduced to zero, and I’ve hardly had time to even think of fun posts. Well, Codi to the rescue… she dragged my butt away from the office and out to a concert. We caught Curtis Salgado live in Lake Oswego. Wow - he and his band are really good! His guitarist is amazing. Anyhoo - during the concert (we were pretty much front row in front of the stage) some kooky lady started dancing this crazy, hippie, woozy, drunken dance. She was flailing and gyrating and getting all twisty and weird. Eeks. I got it on video - short but kind of funny.
Leonardo Da Vinci
July 25, 2007 – 5:22 pm“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
Lightning
July 13, 2007 – 2:17 pmLast night there was a bit of a lightning show. Most of it was contained within the clouds, but every once in a while a bolt would shoot down in plain view. It provided about 45 minutes of fun.
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