The online journal where we share some of our life's experiences with our friends and family!
This summer we are undertaking a large overhaul of our backyard to make it more usable and more inviting... this is our first step towards that goal. We installed an underground composter for our kitchen scraps so we would add less old food to the city dump and every few years when we need to empty it it will give us very rich compost that we can use on our flowers and grass. We also created a special area for Tazzy to do her business so she isn't going all over the yard... we've made it pleasant to look at, easy to clean up after her, and installed another type of underground composter that works something like a septic tank... we just scoop and dump her stuff in the hole and let nature do it's job. The dog composter is still an experiment for us but it's reported to be working very well up in Canada as well as in Alaska where it gets much colder than here so I suspect it will work well for us.
Check out the pix here!
Wow, this looks VERY nice; I really like the flowers and grasses around "Tazzy's Corner" ----very nice job; hope she knows how lucky she is! ~mom
Now, is this a Utah backyard or a California one? The flatness bears a striking resemblence to Arizona or Nevada.
Actually this is a Utah yard. Many Utah yards are flat like this especially the ones that aren't on the benches of mountains. It should also be noted that our yard is pretty small and pre-fabricated in a condominium environment... larger yards are more likely to be less flat than ours.
Well Brandon, I am awestruck at your amazing landscaping abilities. I have a Web site now!
www.wam.umd.edu/~dminsky/homepage.html
And I love you, but it's purely platonic...
Everyone send an email to Heather and congratulate her... she just completed her Personal Fitness Trainer certification with ISSA! It's been a tough, nearly two year, process of study for her but she's finally done it!!! It was really awesome to see her finish it... I think she almost cried! :)
Anyways, here is the photo of her "clicking" on the 'submit' button to submit her exam (which took her I think about 2-3 weeks to finish!) -- about 4 days later she got the results that she had passed. About a week after that we received her Certificate and certification package in the mail... I took her to dinner at Rodizio's Grill and presented her her Certificate in a nice frame she can display it in.
It was a great experience for her! So, if you need some training or eating information... she's your woman! :)
And are we EVER PLEASED with a "job well done" ---Heather, we know how hard you've worked for this and we're SO happy for you to have it completed --knowing you DID IT!! Nice looking Certificate and we're very, very happy and proud of you! We love you ~ mom/dad
Yes, we've been moved in for a while now... about 6 months in fact! But we've been busy and finally just got around to updating our blog with photos for all of our friends and family that might be interested. There are too many photos to post here, so I created a gallery where you can view them with comments as a slide-show, if you want. Check out our new home by clicking on the photo above. We love our new home!
NOTE: To access the photo-gallery, you are going to need a password. If you don't have it, email one of us and we'll give it to you.
VERY NICE - now when I come to visit, I'll feel like I've been there before :) I'll show these to dad, I think he'll be able to see them; he'll want to know where his painting is hanging, I didn't notice, is it up yet? Looks very nice and comfy ----I would be happy to "visit" there. Love you guys - VERY, VERY NICE!
hey! congrats y'all! haven't talked to you in a while--hope y'all are well!
candace snyder
Congrats guys!
Talk to you later...Dewy
Well, the walk was yesterday and Heather and I had a *GREAT* time! The weather was perfect for walking and the crowd was a whole lot larger than we expected! The organization was lacking this year, unfortunately (we heard in years past it's been much better) and we never really had a good idea where we were heading (neither did most anyone else!) -- eventually we all met at the back entrance to the zoo and then things really fell apart... there were *NO* signs telling us what the route was throughout the zoo so we just walked around a bunch until we'd had our fill... up to the zoo I figure we walked about 2.5-3 miles. We might have walked another 2-2.5 miles while we were at the zoo, maybe. Either way it was a great time. There were a whole lot of diabetics there and we got some great information about new laws concerning diabetics as well as a look at some new diabetic products coming out on the market.
To those who donated as well as to those who were unable to but wished that they could have: Thank You for your support! Our main goal in doing this was to help bring diabetes to the front of people's thoughts as well as have a good cause to get out and move our feet for... mission accomplished!
We would like to do this again next year, so if anyone is interested in joining us next year, just holler!
Hi Gresh, this is IT2 Fuentes, just thought I'd drop by to say hi. By the way, how is life outside the Navy? I'll be done this Dec., can't wait.
Ciao,
Fuentes
IT2, what's up???!??? Yeah, post-Navy life is pretty good... going to school and having a great time at it. That's kewl that you are getting out so soon, you can finally be with your little girl!
Hope life is treating you well! If you get a chance some time, drop me an actual email.
Take it easy.
Navy?? What the??? How have you been? It's been a long time. I ran a search on your name and *poof* there's a pic of you in a navy uniform! Man, what a surprise. Hope all is well.
Trevor Johnson
TREVOR!!!! What's up man?!??!?? Hey, I've seen that you've been trying to get a hold of me on classmates.com but I'm too cheap and don't want to pay their subscription fee... hahaha...
Soooo... since you didn't leave an email addy here, I still have no way to contact you... :)
So this is what we'll do... I don't want to leave my email addy here forever... so, if you come back and read this, respond to it and I'll post my email address here that same day... then once you get it, email me back so I can go back and delete my address... ok???
Tchau!
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Trevor... I have been trying to email you at that address you submitted but apparently you didn't get it. I tried it again today (12/5)... if you don't get it this time, feel free to submit a reply to this post with your regular email addy and I will just make sure to not publish your reply so that it won't be publicly viewable, ok? Tchau!
Hey good pic's of you two at the Diabetes marathon. Someone messed w/my 'puter, I lost "most used" web-sites, so I had to look up your blog again. Glad to see it's up and going. Tell Trevor "hi" from us, it was GREAT that you told me about him, how he's doing and what he's doing-hope to see him sometime. Glad he finally found you, b/c I tried REALLY hard to find him for your wedding! Tell him he needs to let you find him a wife, b/c you did a REALLY GOOD JOB!!! Love you both! "Mom-onymous" :)
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