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Brice Belly Bug

We had a rough night the other night, we all got the"Brice" stomach bug. Without going into too many fun details, some of us were up all night throwing up and some of us were up all night with...well, it rhymes with "spy a tree, uh". Anyway, after 2 hours sleep I got to meet two wonderful people who are very much in love and have their wedding coming up next Spring; Abbi and Martin. We had a great time in Camdenton and the colors were just wonderful. I'll have the whole gallery up soon.

It's Fall

Once again, Mt. Vernon's Apple Butter Makin' Days was filled with color and crafts and carnival food. I had a cheesecake-on-a-stick dipped in chocolate and a deep fried apple fritter covered in cinn-sugar and we had brats and kraut and German potato salad and homemade rootbeer. We didn't win at bingo this year which has to be the first time for that but we still had fun.
Then we had the church hayride and had hotdogs and chocolate-carmel pie and hot chocolate and nachos and everything you can think of. I almost went over on my food points but luckily, most of that stuff isn't on the little sheet of paper so I get to estimate what I think. I'm thinkin I had about 15 points all together, when you include the 3 points for the oatmeal I had to start the day. Being healthy takes some serious math skills.

Halloween's A Comin'

We've got some costumes picked out...

Mom's in Japan

With all the excitement this weekend with North Korea planning on testing their nuke, Mom decided she had to get in close and work on her radiation tolerance. Also, I think she is big on saki but that's just a rumor.

Our Trees Got A Haircut

We had tons of dead branches so we had these guys come out and clean it up. The colorful shots are from last year and the green shots are from today.

Cataract Eye

I know I should have cleaned the stove top first, and polished the chili pot too. It almost tipped over for this shot.

Deer & Disco

Like the tragic end of disco, the exotic animal paradise is now closed. I'm thinking of starting a new animal paradise with stuff like wolverines and skunks and hyenas and poison dart frogs. And instead of driving through, you walk through so you really feel the excitement. And then at the center of all the amazing wildlife, I'd put our fat cat Whinnie. She puts the fat deer from the E.A.P. to shame .

Castaway/Lockdown part II

(See last post if this doesn't make sense)

How about K.B. not even wanting to take the full alloted count of books with him, wow what a tough guy. Let's hope he and his Mrs. Reading Rainbow Angie never go on a cruise or anything or they'll just have to talk to each other and we know that never goes well.

OK, great stuff. (I'm only saying "great stuff" because Erin says I say it too much and I sound like a moron and like I'm trying to be cool or something and I come across more like an even dorkier version of Mr. Rogers).
I thought about putting a photo album in my list but in my little "mental scenario" you have to buy all the books at the prison bookstore or the airport bookstore before the plane goes down so I decided against it. Otherwise, I'd custom make me a book 50,000 pages long with a cover made from raft-capable Styrofoam and I'd have another book where each page is a frozen pizza and blah blah blah. Anyway, great stuff all you who responded. (I picked all of mine without seeing what you did first, honest!) Here's my "brilliant books":

If in prison: The Bible, a book on philosophy, a book on art, a blank book, and of course this one.

If on a deserted island, substitute that last one for this one, and substitute the philosophy book for this little beauty.

Oh, and I thought about Snoop Dogg for a long time of course but I ended up with this album list:

“Dark Side of the Moon” - Pink Floyd
“Abby Road” - Beatles
“Red Headed Stranger” - Willie Nelson
“...And Justice For All” – Metallica
“Crash” – Dave Matthews Band

5 Books

I don’t know if I picked it up on a road trip or what, but somewhere along the line, I came up with a great question to ask someone to get a little insight as to how they think, and what they value. Actually you can ask it one of two ways…#1: If you were going to prison for five years and you were allowed to bring any five books with you, what would you bring? Or, #2: If you were stuck alone on a deserted island indefinitely, what five books would you want to bring? A possible follow up is what five cds (given you have a solar powered stereo) would you bring along. I’ll give you my choices if I get five people to comment with theirs first.

Fun with Construction Paper

Makes me think of pizza.

Harry

It took 6 assistants on the lighting and 2 hair stylists and the talent wouldn't wake up.

Paul Bunyon

I had to work with this giant Canadian this week. Boy those Canadians sure are clean and polite. I guess if you got to eat Canadian bacon every day and drink Canada Dry to wash it down, you might be, uh, somehow cleaner....and uh, more....that doesn't make any sense at all. And Dan Aykroyd only ate dry white toast anyway. But Keifer Sutherland probably drinks Canada Dry and he's like the Prime Minister of Canada or something, or he works for their secret security or 24 something, whatever...

Nevermind.

Just the hat

So last week was busy with the holiday and all and my folks are all excited about doing the weight watchers thing and so Erin and I thought we’d give it a whirl. Well, depending on your weight determines how many points of food you are supposed to eat in a day so I thought we should start by just not really worrying about it for the first day, and just write down what we eat and then add it up and see what a typical day is without trying. So Erin is supposed to have like 20 points or something and I’m supposed to have like 30 or something so at the end of the day we did the math and Erin had had like 40 or so and she was pretty bummed. Then I added up mine and it was…get this, 96.5. That’s like three fat dudes’ worth and then some. So we figured we’d better look at what doesn’t “cost” much in points and try it for real. I this means the only things we can get from Krispy Kreme are hats.

Family Weekend

We had a great weekend! Shot a wedding on Friday, a football team on Saturday, my sister and her husband came in from Phoenix, we ate all the good stuff...Hibachi steak, fish n chips, Krispy Kreme (you got to try one someday Rog), and polish dogs and burgers on the grill. Alec also played a lot of flipflop baseball with a baloon with "Uncle".

Here’s a little something that Erin doesn’t like me to talk about. When I use someone else’s pillow I have really “foreign” dreams. Like when we stay at a hotel or whatever, I have these vivid dreams about people I don’t know and places I’ve never been but are supposed to be familiar. Now, I should say that I usually remember something from my dreams and I suppose that makes me a little bit of a freak. So my theory is that somehow, some way, we leave a little bit of a dream imprint on our pillows that can have some kind of impression on someone else’s dream. Erin’s always telling me, “You aren’t Joseph and you sure aren’t living in Bible times”. I think it really bugs her that I keep bringing it up because I sound like such a nut-case. But every I use a “foreign” pillow, I have a “foreign” dream. Does anybody else ever get that or did I just eat too much paste in grade school?

Lake Dreams

Sunday morning at Greer's Ferry Lake in Arkansas. I woke up before everybody and had some coffee and went out and got some sleepy shots. The condensation on the lens was from the change in temp but I decided I kind of liked it for a shot or two.

Say hello to my little friend...

Anna

Billy and Alison's new bundle is wonderful and even though she slept through most of her first shoot, she didn't blink or cry so I didn't have to throw out too many shots. That's always a big plus in my book. It's weird to think my little ones were so small not too long ago, time really does jump on you...not like Adam Sandler in Remote but pretty stinkin fast.

Remember when you were 3?

My son turned three and it seems about that age that I kind of can remember some stuff. Nothing really before that so from now on I'll have to be careful what kind of garbage I tell him like the moon is really an eyeball that watches for kids who refuse to potty train how Mickey Mouse is sick in the hospital and if you clean your room he'll get better but if not....(I'm just kidding, maybe).