MidasWhale

Because we might as well…

Sunday Morning Thursday, January 31, 2008

Filed under: Family, General, Interesting..., Me, Nature, Our Backyard — MidasWhale @ 3:51 pm

Sunday morning was just gorgeous.  Finally, the sun seemed to be peeking out at us, my sweater was on the seat next to me instead of on me, and the water was calm as glass.  The only thing missing was Allen.  Here are the pictures I took of my morning.  Yep, that’s my finger in the last one.  I think it adds a certain charm.  Obviously I did it on purpose, otherwise the picture would have been SO wonderful, it would have made people cry.

great morning  great morning  great morning

 

Snowed In 2 Thursday, January 31, 2008

Filed under: Family, Fred, General — MidasWhale @ 3:45 pm

Here is the picture Allen took of all the snow in a tree.  Right after this, his phone died. So….here it is.

 

Snowed In Monday, January 28, 2008

Filed under: Family, Fred, General — MidasWhale @ 9:37 am
Well, Allen called this morning and said it snowed last night and they were, literally, snowed in the driveway.  I am sure he was a little excited about the snow considering it never snows here.  His phone is about to die, however, and his charger is at Jason’s old place. AND, I’d like to point out, if the plan was the same as when he first went up there, he would have been having to start his drive back to Corpus today, with them calling for more snow until Thursday.
 

Even More Pictures Friday, January 25, 2008

Filed under: Family, Fred, General, Interesting..., Nature — MidasWhale @ 5:11 pm

Here are some more pictures from Allen’s trip. 

This is a picture from Jason’s front porch at his old place.  If you look between the trees, you can see Mt. Rainier.

Allen sent me this picture of himself.

 

Something I Found Friday, January 25, 2008

Filed under: General, Interesting..., Me — MidasWhale @ 10:11 am

Check out this site! http://www.chrisjordan.com/  Chris Jordan is a photographer with some amazing pictures.  I think most of you will like them.  So, check it out.

 

More Pictures Thursday, January 24, 2008

Filed under: Family, Fred, General — MidasWhale @ 1:44 pm

Here is a picture of Abby that Allen took on his cell phone.

 

Allen’s Trip Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Filed under: Family, Fred, Funny, General, Interesting..., Jaxon, Kids, Me, Nature, Zane — MidasWhale @ 9:53 am

Here are some pictures from Allen’s trip up to Washington.  He took these with his cell phone.  I will try to add more as they come in.

This is Arizona from the bus window.

I am not sure what state this is.  He just put “Shasta” on the picture.  It is either Northern California or Oregon.

This is Mt. Rainier in Washington through a parking lot.

 

Jaxon wanted me to tell Allen he missed him.  So, we were joking around and I said I would send Dad a picture.  So, after much goofing around, (and practicing) Zane, Jaxon and myself settled for a sad look.  He really had to try hard to make it but, he did it.  Allen told me not to send anymore pictures like this.  Doesn’t he look pitiful? 

 

Solution For Your Boredom Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Filed under: Family, General, Kids, Me, Zane, homeschooling — MidasWhale @ 9:45 am

Bored?  Nothing to do?  Well, every week, I go through the dictionary and pick out one word starting with every letter of the alphabet for Zane for the week.  I discovered this really cool website (armoredpenguin.com).  They let you make your own crossword puzzles or word search puzzles or scrambled word puzzles.  They are awesome.  If you want to try it out, click on the link below for this week’s crossword puzzle.  I realize Zane already has his list of words but, he IS a kid.  If you find it too difficult to solve, let me know and I will send you the list of words or you can click on their solve the puzzle button and they will give you the answers.  Zane fast discovered how to cheat when the words were different lengths so, all of the words are 6 letter words.  OH, and by the way, you have the option of solving it online or printing it out and doing it at your leisure.  Like I said, a great site.  Have fun!

http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/Data/2008.01/2307/23073230.073.html

 

Gone Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Filed under: Family, Fred, General, Jaxon, Kids, Me, Zane — MidasWhale @ 1:28 pm

Well, Allen took off on the bus Sunday heading towards Washington.  Besides me and the boys not being with him, I think he has been having fun on the bus, asking questions and stuff about the bus and about the drive back by himself in a Penske moving truck.  He has been able to sit back and enjoy the scenery and talk to people, or sleep, or whatever.  Being the overprotective wife that I am, I made sure to warn him not to wander too far in Los Angeles because of the vampires.  (Everyone has seen Lost Boys, right?) He did say the food was WAY over-priced.  Like, a burger at one of the stops was $6 and a bottle of water was $2.  Luckily, we remembered the price of cigarettes are outrageous in Washington so, he bought a carton before he went.  He tends to give a cigarette to anyone who asks for one (sucker) so, I do not know how long they will last.  I did mention this trip could be the perfect opportunity to quit smoking.  He laughed like I was joking.  Anyway, here is a picture of Allen all ready to leave us and the boys at the bus station. (Yes, that is my rockin’ cool kid in the Flaming Lips t-shirt!)

Zane  Jaxon & Zane  Jaxon

 

The Word “BLOG” Monday, January 21, 2008

Filed under: Funny, General, Interesting..., Me — MidasWhale @ 9:21 pm
Has anyone else noticed that the word “blog” comes up when you click spell-checker as a misspelled word.  And, they don’t have anything close to it.  Isn’t that a little bit odd for WordPress?  I mean, it is a WordPress blog, right?  Hell, WordPress comes up in WordPress’s spell-checker as misspelled.  So weird.