Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

My Talented Kin


Not sure why it took me so long to find and post this.

Monday, January 28, 2008

obsessed


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I have become obsessed with this quest to lose weight. Not so much that I am doing much about it. I mean, I am exercising - I walk from 45 to 50 minutes in the morning and I ride a bike trainer for 30 to 60 minutes at night, but I have not altered my diet all that much. I try not to get seconds and I try not to eat between meals, but I do both on occasion. I only have beer every once in a while. I haven't had any now for more than a week and it was more than a week the time before that. I guess I have a couple of bottles of beer every two weeks. I weight myself every morning and take a picture of it. That's the most consistent thing I do. So far it has been working. I started on Nov. 16 at 150 pounds. Today I as at 234.

Friday, January 25, 2008

weigh-in


If you click on this photo you can see that I am on the light side of 235 pounds. Ten weeks ago I was on the heavy side of 250. Whoo HOO!

Monday, January 21, 2008

Emily Woods Part 1.2 (music added to bike scenes)


I added some music to the bike riding scenes. It was suggested by the Schvetz family in Colorado. I had intended to do that with the original but I ran out of time. Finding the right music and sound effects takes the most amount of time when it comes to putting the final product together.

Christmas video


I don't know why it takes me so long to get Christmas videos posted. Perhaps it is because Santa did not bring me a new camcorder...

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Falling Slowly


Mary and I watched "Once" Friday night. I really liked it.

Friday, January 18, 2008

AMAZING!!!


Sandy Wall driving the Craven Community College's float in the New Bern High School victory parade. "Good times," Sandy reports. New Bern had won the North Carolina State Football Championship.

Monday, January 14, 2008

Visitors from Chateaugay


Ron and Sandy enjoyed "Second Christmas."

Our little model


We asked Lucy to pose with some of the new clothing she received as gifts for "Second Christmas." I think there as been a little too much "America's Next Top Model" on in the house.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Christmas keeps coming


Mary's parents are in town with a pile of Christmas gifts. Lucy has talked us into letting her open one gift a night. The big night is supposed to be Friday. Who knows if there will be anything left under the tree. So far she has 4 new Junie B. Jones books and the sweatshirt seen above. Her grandparents also brought home a globe circa 1940 from an antique shop yesterday. It has one of those time dials on the north pole so you can tell what time it is anywhere in the world. "What time is it in Germany? What time is it in Iowa? What time is it in Australia?"
"You know Lucy," I said. "It's always bedtime somewhere." She didn't get it.

Wednesday, January 09, 2008


This is one of those horrible, cheesy TV reports that they put on the end of the news with the "colorful" feature reporter, but because it is about the best hotdog stand in the world Pivins (pee vans) in Huntingdon, Quebec, I am posting it here.

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Potter Epiphany


I always wondered what this song was about. At first I thought it was just Martin telling a story from a woman's point of view. Then I thought it was someone talking to God. Now I realize it was really about Ron and Harry!

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Breaking in the new sled




The new sled is fast!

New Year Celebration



Lucy celebrates with Rabbit Ro (above) and with mom (below).