Bailey feeling his Oats

I don't know if many of you have facebook and are able to see this video on my Odelia Farms site, so I thought I'd upload it here - at least I'll give it a try. These are our young boys.

Alpaca Kiss!

Last Alpaca Farm Days a lady came by with her very nice camera and took the attached photo. We thought we'd share it with you. It is simply lovely! And so is the lady in the picture.

Make new friends but keep the old - one is silver and the other is gold!

We had a great trip to Chicago visiting with old friends from Wisconsin. In total there were five couples, with the husbands all employees of CUNA Mutual in Madison Wisconsin, in the early 80s. We now live in various cities around the country but all in the Midwest, so we decided to convene in Chicago. This is the third reunion for everyone but Rodney and me. We were not able to make the last reunion as we were caught in the December ice storm of 200?. I can't remember the years anymore.

Anyway, we stayed at the Palmer House, which has an awesome lobby. Brenda, Pam and I took in the Art Institute to see the Matisse exhibit. Afterwards, we decided we were not great fans of Matisse. Others went to the Field museum and the Planetarium. We all split up and went where our interests took us. We also ate some of the most wonderful food, offered by great downtown restaurants. The highlight was seeing Billy Elliot in the theatre. Nice play with great dancing and music. Chicago is a great time for a get away weekend. Easy city to get around in and wonderful places to visit.

Beercation! Destination: Portland

Last weekend we took some friends to Portland for a Beercation. There are over 30 microbrews/brewpubs in the Portland area and Connie was on a mission to visit as many as possible. We did not nearly get to as many as 30, but we did get pretty sick of drinking beer by the end of the weekend.




It was a little cold and rainy for us LA folk. I really enjoyed the change- the others not so much.


The awesome bridges of Portland.



Look at that flight- we tried 13 beers here.





This was the end of a long day of drinking - obviously I'm a little over it.

A little visiting

While this was over a month ago, I was going through some pics and thought I'd make a post. I have been wanting to see Wicked since it came out. (Yes-read the books. Yes-listened to the soundtrack. Yes-scoured the web for photos.) It has been in San Francisco, so we finally made a trip to get to the show.


While this was my original intention for going, the weekend turned out to be much more than that since we also got to stay with Josh & Andrew. (The city view picture is from their street.) We always have such a good time with them, and they were great tour guides---from the "Full House" houses to the Asian wedding photo location/almost nudist beach to the secret password library speakeasy. (And we also now have a huge new lists of movies for our Netflicks!) Besides that, we got cooked for!

We also got a pass to visit the California Academy of Sciences. Great activity for the day since it was raining pretty good. A fun museum and aquarium. They even have an albino croc! It was great to take a quick visit of the Bay.

s(NO) More Please

I really don't mind the snow that much but it's still around and we are expecting more this week and not the fun make an igloo on your street kind. It's the rain, I'm gonna cause lot's of accidents and make getting to your gig miserable kind. I don't mind this extended winter but let's keep it dry, cold and snowy please.

SNOMG

It's hard to say how much snow we really got but I think was around 2 feet on Sunday and another foot as of today. I did get a snow day yesterday but today I had to return to work (only 6 out 25 were able to "make it in"). It was pretty for a minute but soon it will be a lot of slush and ice and icicles and water in my basement. Eleanor got hit in NYC yesterday with less than a foot and my mom was without heat or electricity for 3 days but now things in DC are starting to come around. 6 more weeks of winter indeed.

My Amazing Race through Culver City

For the few of you not on facebook and for those who are and looking for explanations. For my birthday party this year I hosted a race through Culver City. The idea was that solving all the clues would eventually lead them to the location of my birthday party. Overall it went well and people had a good time. Luckily the rain held so no one got wet. Of course there was some frustration from those trying to run the race and from Connie and I trying facilitate it. Technology was not on our side at all times. But hey memories for all. Here is a link to some photos the teams had to take during the race - from finding a Hare Krishna to hiking up 282 stairs.


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1128700&l=e9db35b74a&id=1224768501

Visiting Grandma Toby

Hi all,
I am writing from sunny Florida, visiting with Grandma Toby. I also got to see Grandpa Dave and Helen, Emily and Gena & Max. Everyone is fine, even though moving slowly. We have gone to the Y, eaten out, gone to the Flea market and moved furniture and of course played Scrabble! Tomorrow we get to go to the horse show. We hope to see the Olympic riders Steffen Peters, Isabella Werth, & Anky Von G. Musical Freestyle is the highlight of the Saturday night show under the lights. I'll send pics if I can get some good ones.

Take care everyone, talk soon.

Happy birthday Jessica.