4 Things I Love Today

While I burn time editing videos of Lilly and LuLu, I’ll take a quick minute to share a few more entirely unrelated things I’m loving these days —

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As Promised: A Mini Cooper Extravaganza

When lighting and mood finally aligned, I took these shots of my super cool new Mini Cooper. It’s a total blast to drive. It gets AMAZING gas mileage,

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Surgery Update

Just a quick note of thanks for your good wishes and prayers. My sister’s surgery went well. Because they started about 2 hours late and her post-op pain

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Surgery Vigil

I’m headed out soon to sit vigil during my sister’s mastectomy. If you could throw a spare good thought our way today, the girls of Champion of My

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Coping Strategies

Again, you have my apologies for the missing posts and general absence lately. I’ve been thinking a lot about how best to handle stress and worry when it

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Hawaii Photo Montage

Tom’s sister Terry lives most of the year in Molokai, Hawaii. She has been visiting Colorado in recent weeks and gave us a CD of photos she has

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Chester the Alpaca

Since mentally I only have enough bandwidth for required work, I thought I might entertain you with photos. This is Chester. He is a 2-year-old alpaca that I

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Non-Training Life Update

I’m sorry there was no Training Update yesterday as is our Friday tradition. Numerous real-life stressors have consumed any time and energy for training. Here’s the rundown of

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Greenhouse 2009 Report & More Wildflowers

2009 is my second full growing season with a greenhouse to aid in my high-altitude gardening. The season is SO short at over 8,000 feet that my results

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2009 Wildflower Report

All winter we had virtually no snow. Then, came spring, and it would not stop snowing. Now that it’s essentially summer, we’re getting rain most days. It’s the

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