February 27 57/365

The Unicorn Relays were today. Here's our star female runner, blowing them away in the Women's Medley. (I was sitting up high in the bleachers, which is why it's still blurry, even though I had it set correctly. I think. Things have been a little fuzzy since the Princess shared her crud with me.)

February 26 56/365

I wish I had seen this sticker about a year ago.

February 25 55/365

The Princess has been ill. We finally went to the doctor on Wednesday. She loves the doctor, but hates that the doctor is a pediatrician. Poor Elmo.

February 24 54/365

The Texas Mountain Laurels are blooming. They are so pretty, and they smell like grape Koolaid. Too bad they only last about two weeks each year. At least the trees look nice the rest of the year.

February 23 53/365

I was taking the kids to the dentist after school, and this guy was behind us at a light. Yes, that's a skeleton mask he's wearing. I had to take this shot in my side mirror, which is why it's so poor quality.

February 22 52/365

An artisan at Gruene Market Days

February 20 51/365

February 19 50/365

February 18 49/365

Pretty, Pink, Pedicured Puppy Paws!

February 17 48/365

Garrett

February 16 47/365

Lauren convinced me to go to the Goodwill Store on Monday. It was a holiday from school--one of the bad weather days we didn't use. I found this lovely shirt while waiting for The Princess to decide her hands were too dirty; this is one of the places Jeff is forced to eat at while in Booger County.

February 15 46/365

It was late. I was desperate. There was fruit.

February 14 45/365

Pioneer Woman's Apple Dumplings. Yum. It's Valentine's Day, and in this family, food equals love. Yummy, yummy, yum, yum, yum. Love.

February 13 44/365

Shoes! Oh, how I love shoes! My mom told me about a sale at the Marmi Outlet in San Marcos, so I went up there Friday after school. She said Everything In The Store Is $19.99.
She was Not Kidding. I got these three pair of shoes for $64 (tax included) and the regular price would have been $260! How awesome is that?
The back pair on the left are eelskin. Yum. As Ogden Nash once said, "I like eels."
The red pair in the middle are some kind of fancy, shiny nubuck, and the tan on the right are calfskin, and they are pretty skinny, which doesn't exactly fit my Fred Flinstone feet, so they will probably be Special Occasion Shoes, which is really a shame, because I like them a lot.

February 12 43/365

Dead cat. Not really!!!

February 11 42/365

The Valentines Garrett made for his class

February 10 41/365

February 9 40/365

rain. finally.

February 8 39/365

Happy Val_ntin_'s Day!

February 7 38/365

The Guadalupe River behind a friend's house.

February 6 37/365

February 5 36/365

I played with a couple of the features on Picasa here. Namely, the tint and movie grain.

February 4 35/365

An entire chicken--boneless!--in a can. Whodathunkit?

February 3 34/365

The new condos in front of the old LCRA power plant

February 2 33/365

February 1 32/365

Sadie on the trampoline

January 31 31/365

Lauren, with Sadie and Callie. Love!!!

January 30 30/365

January 29 29/365

I was taking some pictures of my students doing historical re-enactments today, and this one was not very good quality, so I just played around with some of the software features for fun.

January 28 28/365

January 27 27/365

Poor puppy. No one will play with her and Willie.

January 26 26/365

Sunni was my student during the 2003-2004 school year. She graduated in 2006 and was attending the University of Texas in Austin when she was tragically killed in a car accident in November 2007. I only knew Sunni for a few years, but I still think about her every day. I can only imagine the loss for those who had more time with her. This brick is found on the Walk of Memories outside our school.

January 25 25/365

The Guadalupe River at Gruene Crossing

January 24 24/365

Great Uncle Ralph's antique tea set.

January 23 23/365

One of the European hinges on the bathroom cabinet Jeff is building.

January 22 22/365

Princess Pea

January 21 21/365

January 20 20/365

At President Obama's Inauguration

January 19 19/365

From the Holocaust Memorial Museum

January 18 18/365

The chandelier in a ballroom in Columbia, MD. I did nothing to this photograph, because I had 4 hours of sleep last night, I'm looking at 5.5 hours tonight, if I go to sleep RIGHT NOW.

January 17 17/365

I took this picture this afternoon in the Kohl's parking lot. It is hair. Artificial hair. If your hair fell off in the Kohl's parking lot, don't you think you'd at least stop and pick it up?

January 16 16/365

This is where my daughter, The Princess, lives.

January 15 15/365

One of my favorite places.

January 14 14/365

This is the view from my classroom window. Gotta love the Texas Hill Country.

January 13 13/365

One of three candle holders in the kids' playroom. Apparently, you get the red cast when you hold your finger over the flash. Who knew?

January 12 12/365

Sweet boy Leroy. Notice the notch in his ear from fighting.

January 11, 11/365

Another one for the chronicle of my daily life. Back on Labor Day 2007 my husband and I started a complete remodel of our master bath, without a plan. All we needed to do was replace the old toilet. One thing leads to another, and next thing you know, we're breaking up tile, smashing cabinets and scraping up vinyl flooring. This empty space is the last thing before the project will be complete. Until this weekend, the old, painted cabinets were still in here. The original plan was to take off the old doors, strip the paint off the face of the cabinet, stain and Handy Hubby was going to make new doors. Fine. Remember that "one thing leads to another"? Well, we discovered they'd made the entire thing out of the cheap-ass plywood you use for roofing. Jeff was horrified, and that stuff doesn't lend itself to staining, so out it came.

January 10 10/365

I spent some time on Saturday morning playing around with different settings on my camera. I sat on the couch and took dozens of shots of this pile of laundry with my camera at different settings. This may not be the best of the bunch, but I'm tired of looking at them, so I just picked one. Besides, this project is also supposed to be a chronicle of my everyday life, and a lot of my couch time is spent looking at laundry on the floor.

January 11

I haven't given up, I just can't find my camera cord to upload the pictures I've been taking.

January 9 9/365

I planned on taking my new camera's instruction manual to work today and studying it some before taking any pictures. There was Much Drama in High School Land today, however, and I didn't even realize that the manual didn't make it into my bag until I got back home. Oh well. Did I mention that my new camera has a special "food" setting for photographing delicious dishes? It doesn't even require any advanced knowledge! So, here are some strawberries that I plan to serve over the most delicious pound cake I have ever eaten tomorrow.

January 8 8/365

This is what seven years of No Child Left Behind has gotten us. What a legacy!!! (Actually, this is an AP World History class, and these students are anything but slackers.)

I promise this will be my last bad photo. I got some tips on ISO and improving the resolution of my photos and I will be reading up on it before I take pictures tomorrow.