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Our animals- and the rat race


Britton Feeding Kitty, Schnoodle, and the Chickens- they love lunchmeat

It’s fun to hang out in our back yard. When it is nice outside, it’s one of our favorite things to do. We had a four day weekend this last weekend due to Veteran’s Day and you start to feel human again with a long weekend. It’s amazing how fast your life goes by when you are not paying attention to it and you are doing the 8-5 grind. I wonder if we will feel superhuman with over 2 weeks off? And in Puerto Rican Paradise! Then moving there?…maybe even magical. 🙂


Britton Going to Mount Britton in El Yunque

Our friends Matt, Jamie, Erin and Chad are on a cruise in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean as we speak. I wonder what they will think of it. I also found a cool blog by a couple who run a Bed and Breakfast in the rainforest of El Yunque. We would like to eventually do something similar in Puerto Rico.

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Autumn Life around the Yard

I love gardening, so it is sad to see our tomato plants and roses slowly wither away and die. The only plant that is great in the fall are mums, or chrysanthamums (sp). The white chicken is still the only one to lay, but the black one is getting big. She looks like she is about double the size of little miss leghorn. Here are some pictures of the cooling Colorado weather. Britton and I have decided to go to Puerto Rico in January with a closing -or not. We need to get down there, and this weather is ever the convincer.


Cold Dew on the Roses


Another Cold Rose


Leghorn and Kitty at the Back Patio


Schnoodle and the Mums


Close up of one of the mums

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Crashing to the Floor

Strange but True Parable

Last night after watching the Bush Bailout Plan on TV, we went up to make our dinner of nachos (with beans, cheese, buffalo meat, sour  cream, tomatoes, and jalapenos) -YUM!-  Britton was walking with the plate in his hand, and just as I turned out the light to go downstairs with the food, we heard a crash. I thought he had run into the wall when I turned out the light, but when I turned it back on, he was still left holding part of the plate. The rest of it was all over the kitchen floor. The plate had broken on its own.

This seemed completely appropriate for the moment; a crashing plate with a crashing financial system and economy. But yet we did not get any intervention or bailout (should Taco Bell or other nacho institutions give us free nachos?, or maybe they would like to buy our broken plate full??) and neither did all the families who were foreclosed and/or preyed upon. We cleaned it up, salvaged what we could, learned a lesson and will use a better plate that is hopefully better “regulated” for the oven in the future so it doesn’t just shatter in our hands again. And there is always a silver lining: Schnoodle happily licked the floor clean for us so that all we had to do was mop it afterward. I am sure that the big corporations can find a way other than through our money to clean up their mess.

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