Merry Christmas!
This year we are sending out family history posters as Christmas cards. The above poster is designed as a poinsettia that will last all year (click the image above). The center two folded petals are my parents, the next set of four petals are my grandparents, and so on. The Brooks poster isn’t online, but will be coming by mail.
12/19/2007 | hugh | Comment [2]
Tastes Kinda Minty
From: Doug Roper
Subject: Tastes Kinda Minty
Date: December 17, 2007 5:53:13 PM PST
I remember when Terry was feeding me some cat sand (with the occasional nugget) in the sandbox years ago. It tasted kinda minty, I thought. Well you are cordially invited to peruse my new blog as the fancy strikes. I’m going to use this blog to post random observations and epiphany or stories from my life. Maybe this will help me get motivated to post my life’s stories. Comments, retorts and embellishments are welcome, but retractions may be rare as my stories get proportionately better with my age.
I also welcome any prompts or suggestions for future posts.
Love, Doug
http://tasteskindaminty.blogspot.com/
Black and white television
Quinan (three) is often attempting to take things apart, sometime I want to call him my little “Trevor.” One day he was shoving a table knife into the top of the dishwasher and… I had a flashback.
I don’t remember how old I was, probably four or five, but I do remember a black and white television on a shelf. I know it was on a shelf (or possibly a counter) because I was always climbing on things when my parents weren’t around and you never forget a good climb.
The sound coming out of the TV fascinated me. So what does a four-year-old do when he’s fascinated? That’s right, make a trip to the kitchen (todler’s toolbox) for a table knife. I remember climbing back up and poking the knife in through the small horizontal openings on the side.
That’s about all I remember. If there was discipline involved after this exploration I can’t recall.
My next childhood memory was of the same television set with a speaker on the side and a wire going in the back. It was probably ten or twenty years later before I connected the two incidents.
12/17/2007 | hugh | Comment [1]
Lost and Found
A number of years ago we lost the second key to our car. We searched everywhere, but just couldn’t find it. It was pretty strange.
Last Saturday we decided to have a house cleaning party (the kids were soooo excited) and while searching the crevasse of our couch I found the key (along with about 20 pens, Legos and numberless crumbs).
12/13/2007 | hugh | Comment [1]
Majora Carter: Greening the ghetto
Garden Update December 2007
Garden Update December 2007 from Hugh Roper on Vimeo.
12/01/2007 | hugh | Comment [4]
IMAP Gmail
If you actually know what Gmail is, or especially if you know what IMAP is and if your a Mac user and are (or considering) using Gmail with Apple’s Mail application, an iPhone (or both). Make sure you peruse 5thirtyone’s outstanding article on How-to Properly Configure Gmail IMAP it’s will make your email life soooo much easier.
New Mexico 2005
You may be wondering why I’m writing about a trip two years ago to New Mexico. Well, it’s because I was inspired. Inspiration comes (to me) in may forms, cookies, music, clothing and sometimes neices.
The new rathblog features an inaugural post, Congratulations. I’m a mom. Amy’s descriptive prose flooded my mind with our own similar experience.
See the picture of Michele below? The one where she appears to be counting to five? Click that photo and take a closer look. Yes, we were were at McDonalds in Kingman, AZ. No, Michele didn’t have a
Yes, July 2005 was a great family trip. We took our mugs at Hoover Dam, welcomed Sarah home from her 18 month bilingual vacation in Chicago, played kickball, made coffee can ice cream, shared watermelon and had a wonderful time.
Here’s to Yellowstone in 2008 (are we still on)?
11/12/2007 | hugh | Comment [2]
HBH
Happy Birthday Heidi! I remember when you were Jake’s age.
Abstraction
I few days ago I taught Quinan how to take photos with our digital camera. I’m pretty surprised how we composed many of the pictures are.