Mickey & Mulan Introduce Their Cuzzins From Corona

- So Mulan and I have these wayward cousins.

- Yeah they're pretty crazy!

- So we figured its time you met them...

- (they're pretty stinky too)

- Mulan! Be serious!





- Ok-ok, so here we have the prettiest girl in the world...

ME! ha ha

Oh- and the small black thing is named 'Boo' or
'She Who Pees in the Loft'

- This fine lookin' thing is Bear.
She likes to shake her money maker, and when she does it's like 'Dang shorty! You got some fries with that!'

Ok Mulan finish this post off, who do we have left?



- We have Ms. Barks-a-lot Suzy here. Look at her, she's so grumpy.

- Well these are our cousins, I like to visit them cuz all the ladies vie for my attention, and I'm like 'Yo ladies there are plenty of slices of the Mickey-pie to go around'

- eewwww!!

I got a new library card!

So I get out of work early a couple of Fridays ago with nothing to do.

'You know what', I think to myself, 'I'm gonna get a library card'

To the Solana Beach library I go. I get there and there are North County hoodlums getting a talking to from a sheriff in the parking lot- I walk past them and give 'em a look - Got caught by the po-po, huh? Suckas!

I stroll up to the front desk past some kids and old people, I catch the eye of one of the librarians, smack the desk and declare- "I want a library card!"

He gives me the once over, smiles and asks "How old are you?"

"28" I answer nonchalantly.

Apologetically, he says "Huh, well, I thought, you look ... well like you could be younger", as he hands me the application form.

I take the form and it reads: Under 18 Must Have A Parent Or Guardian Sign This Form

Son of a motherless goat!, I scream in my head. This type of situation isn't helped when my boss introduces me as the firm's 15 year old savant. Just as I'm about to give Mr. Dewey Decimal a piece of my mind he's already turned and walked away.



That's it- that's the story. What did you want? An explosion?

Ok- kaboom.

fin

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Trick or Treat Time! Missi and I just finished our pumpkins for this year. I did the one on the left - it says "Happy New Year!" Okay, there's your first Halloween trick. Gimme some candy or there will be more. Missi carved the witch and the cauldron. Pretty good pumpkins this year, if we do say so ourselves.




This is Mulan as Princess Leia. Isn't she cute!

She, like the real Leia, has kissed her own brother (Mickey).








Mickey reprised his role as Darth Mickey this year, he's so intimidating.











Mulan sticks her tongue out at those of you who don't give out Halloween doggy biscuits.


Happy Halloween!

Wildfires October 2007

Hey everyone, Me and the 3M's are fine, here is a quick update of the fires from our perspective. This shot is looking south from our house. The glow is from the Colorado Hills fire somewhere on the other side of the hill. There have been 5-6 hot spots that made it over the crest and onto our side of the hill in this picture. One of the hotspots had flames taller than the 2 story structures in the picture. Fortunately, all those hot spots were put out.

Here's a screen shot from 10news of a map diagramming where the San Diego County fires are.





This screen shot is of the evacuation area imposed for the Witch Fire that is now burning on the west side of the 15. My office is in the evacuation area, Missi's is right outside of it- close to the 5 freeway.



Our area looks to be okay right now- the Colorado Hills fire (southeast over the hills) and the fire in the FallBrook area seem to be relatively calm. Mickey and Mulan are busily napping. So we're all okay, just heard on the news that the fire closest to us may be close to 40% contained. Alright!

What do Mickey and Mulan have in common with MVP LT?

Artificial Grass!


After about a year of a carefully planned, persistent and balanced chemical warfare attack Mickey and Mulan can finally declare victory. Through the power of their yellow snow-cone making juice they have destroyed enough of the evil natural grass and have forced their "masters" to get some artificial turf.

This is what the yard looked like before.




Now it looks like this!

Now Mickey and Mulan happily run and play on the turf, and Missi and I can finally use our bocce ball set

More Pics of Elliott

Obviously, Uncle Handsome ran out of time on his last post about Elliott because we have a ton more pictures to share of our new nephew.

Elliott adored me right away (and the feeling was mutual!)









Dar freaked out every time Elliott cried. He would only let me photograph him when Elliott was calm.















Elliott was a very curious boy and would take the time to check you out while you held him (that or he really liked to look at the trees through the window behind me).








Here's a close up of Elliott checking out Uncle Handsome.











And here is Elliott and I snuggling one last time before Uncle Handsome and I hopped on a plane back to California.

Great Smoky Mountains

For the second half of our trip, we drove up the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Great Smoky Mountains and Cherokee, NC.










So, we're on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We were so excited that I pulled off at every turnout to take pictures. Turns out we were too low for the color changes, so most of our pictures have a lot of green in them (the color changes start at the higher elevations and work their way downwards).





We finally found some great color at the higher elevations. The camera really doesn't do the colors justice.










We finally made it to the Great Smoky Mountains...although...we never saw any alleged "smoky" in those mountains...










About half the park is in Tennessee...we can add another notch on our belt of states visited. In this pic, Dar is tennesseing and is finally tenness-believing.










The little black blur at the back of this picture is one of two black bears we saw from the road. So, our poor pix are partially my fault b/c I couldn't manage to get my mighty Ford Taurus fully off the road and the ranger was yelling at me. It was partly Dar's fault because he had the big zoom lens on and it couldn't focus on a bear that close (at one point, after we turned around and came by the bear again, it was 15 feet away from our car). Trust me, it's a bear.


We have pics of our Cherokee adventures too, but that will have to wait for another post.