Just Another Day With Me

Honeymoon?

We never had a honeymoon..and we honestly have never went away for our anniversary.  We never went away just to get away...just the two of us, unless it was doing something for someone else in the family. Or else it was business.  I love traveling..and he does it for a living.  

So 15 years later.  I think it is time for us to go somewhere together.   Looking forward to it.   I got this picture in Galveston in June, my sister and I stayed at a hotel on the beach and then went to see Sting.  That was one of the best days of my life...it was magical from sunup till sundown.   Incredible day.   

My Babies... Aren't they precious?

My beautiful Daughter....  

My Handsome Young Men 

My "Garmin" - Old School

Home...  had a great day at Red Rock Canyon in Hinton Oklahoma.   More pics to come!  I had to show my Mom my pics and let Grace on the computer at my house so I'm going to post some un-processed shots. Here is "my Garmin"  it gets me where I'm going and doesn't talk back.   I really like this kind of technology. 

No Trespassing

Had a great walk tonight :-)  We went walking in the neighbors big pastures,  trespassing, not obeying the signs above.  It was amazing to see how beautiful the landscape is just a half a mile from my house, I feel like I found a whole new beauty in my backyard. errr... Front yard.  And to think I thought I was too tired to walk.    

Kathryn

Kathryn, ND Flooding article; a year later.  Similar article, I remember last year how strange it was to read about this tiny town in the national headlines, and to think of all the places to go in the world- I can say that I've been to Kathryn, North Dakota.  I, unfortunately lost the pictures that I had of this town.  My group stopped off there after a day at Streeter at the Central Grasslands Research Extension Center.  

Our drive back to Fargo on that day in June of 2008; involved a planned meal stop in Kathryn. Such a small town, nestled in a valley, I remember thinking how nice it would be to live in such a beautiful little town (not imagining winter time of course).   I remember the post office, a restaurant and a grain elevator.  Very much like the tiny plains towns I was raised in.   It was just such a nice day and evening.   My friend E who I met up with in Dallas (and earlier this year in Houston) was part of this group, the funny thing is some of my closest friends I have now were part of this group (and most live in the south).  

Certainly a day I'll not forget, of course, reading about this town in the news is strange because it is one town that I never imagined I'd see on the front page of the national news two years in a row.   

Google Map of Kathryn

A Girls Knight Out

 So, yesterday morning during my planning period my phone rang; caller id showed that it was one of my dear friends that I made during my summer in Fargo. Now, we are all teachers, so I immediately assumed something bad must have happened because she'd never call during a school day.  Nope, nothing bad she was in Dallas for a conference and asked if I wanted to come down for dinner.  Now, I live 150 miles away from downtown Dallas, so I said yes.   I haven't seen her since New Years Day when she played tour guide in Houston.  

Oddly enough Thursday night I began a book that I bought while up in the Dakotas titled "Giants of the Earth" by Rolvaag  (yeah, my reading list is delayed by two years, I still haven't read the book I got in Canada over the Medicine line- its on my list too) and thought how odd that she asked to meet yesterday!  Very cool.  Also strange I bought the Dakota book by Kathleen Norris this week. 

She called back and asked if I wanted to meet at Medieval Times.... yeah, a trip to Dallas to see the illusion of knights in shining armor (irony there anyone).   I found tickets online, buy one get one free, and we went for half the price that we thought we would.  Garmin led me directly to the Castle in downtown Dallas.  We entered a hall filled with teenagers, small children and parents rushing around with cameras (very Disney-Land like) ...  and were finally escorted to our seats and sat down to have our shouting server telling us how to point our glasses for tea or Pepsi, while they served us our fare without silverware,  a rib, chicken, soup and bread followed by a pastry (turnover).  Food was good.... entertainment was good.  The horsemanship was pretty  cool - it was certainly something I think my kids would enjoy.  

After the show we headed back north to have a "sleepover"  which is very odd and haven't had one of those in ages,  we had the chance to catch up and talk.  It was a nice night, woke up and headed home,  stopped for some tax free groceries and enjoyed buying a cartload with a 9% discount (our sales  tax)  the tax break bought one tank of gas!  So I can buy fuel and drive to Texas for the principal or I can pay taxes on food (which shouldn't be taxed in my opinion).   I think if people on food stamps are not taxed then no one should be taxed on food.  It doesn't make sense does it? So I made it home this afternoon, napped and now I'm up.  

It was a good trip,  with a much different mindset than my trip of a month ago, no pain, no heartache, a supportive husband watching the kids- NO OTHER MEN - to mess me up emotionally, the only knights in shining armor were the entertainment of the evening -  that made the difference - I've had a week of nothing but running from WWE - the Cardiologist to Dallas - I'm ready for Spring Break so I can stay home and catch up in the house.  

So, now, I'm going to bed.... exhaustion wins....

A Contrast in Reds and Greens

  The Painted Desert in Eastern Arizona Painted Desert- Arizona, USA, And a thousand miles north to the Conglomerate Cliffs/Cypress Hills in Saskatchewan.  Cypress Hills

Part 3: Art of the Ancient Ones

    

Part 2: Art of the Ancient Ones

   Petroglyphs in the American Southwest 

Art of the Ancient Ones

Aren't they glorious? No description needed... amazing