the blog

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souvenirs to cherish for always

Welcome to the blog! 

posts as far back as 2009

I hope you enjoy perusing stories and images from the last several years. It is well saturated with animal and travel photos. The blog was a passion of mine for quite some time but in 2016 I took a break. Glad to finally be back!

Minnesota Renaissance Fest

As aluded to in the previous post, last weekend I did all things festival. On Saturday after Neighbor Kitty’s model shoot, ‘Pickpic’ and I went to the MN Renaissance Fest. care of here  This...

Neighbor Kitty… but is she yours?

Oof Da. I’m pretty sure just my last post was exclaiming about how excited I was that my life was slowing down. Silly me. On Thursday of last week I needed to start calenderizing {yep- it’s a word}...

Weekends

Now that things are finally slowing down a bit, I am starting to really enjoy weekends again. They are no longer something that is a nice break from work but so much work I would almost rather be at...

Do I Hear a Yahoo?

I have a new computer! Horay!! And it has a web cam. I've always thought web cams were a bit on the silly side. I've never really had the need to chat with someone through my computer visually and...

weddings are big!

That is my overall statement from going to 2 weddings of late. I think they are fabulous affairs that quite clearly take tons of man hours (and $$) to put on. No, I'm not so naive to have never know...

tuesday already?

Sheesh. Another Tuesday come and gone. And I still have not caught up from last week. I keep trying to come up with lists of stuff I want to get done because oh boy, am I a list person. When in...

real quick…

since i've been super busy this week and haven't had my typical nightly computer time i haven't gotten my planned post complete. BUT i couldn't resist this photo. Last weekend when I was in...

i love new stuff

Over the weekend I felt like I got things accomplished. I made a Costco run on Saturday which involved getting a step stool to reach the highest parts of my kitchen and ceiling fan cords, gobs and...

it's official…

my computer is dead. Not something like the battery wont work or the hard drive is fried, no. The entire stinkin machine is dead. And the worst part? It is something that is faulty within the...

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