Max wakes up for Christmas

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Oran got a new camera recently. I am sure if you have been within earshot in the last few weeks he would have been told all about it. The camera is a Casio EX-H10. Here are the stats: 12.1 MP, 10x Optical zoom, 1000 shots per battery charge. So far, Oran has charged the battery once two weeks ago and have taken around 150 shots. The battery still reads full.

Oran took a walk and a drive and has pictures from in the house, walking around the neighborhood and out at Beluga Point. Here are some samples:

Potter Marsh

Beluga Point

Nanaka Valley Park

Nanaka Valley Park

Our house

You can see all the photos I took at: WalkingPics slideshow

Whitter Fishing Trip

Our fishing trip path took us from Whittier to Lone Island, then through Culross Pass and then back to Whittier. We bagged two Halibut and one Red Snapper.

Our Red Snapper picture did not come out too clear but is still a worthwhile picture.

The trip was a success. Oran pulled in the two Halibut and Jennifer pulled in two of these rock fish (one is the red snapper above, the other -below- was a catch and release - which lived and swam off to feed for another day)

The New House

It's taken us a little while to get settled enough to post. We statred moving into the new place at the end of Feburary. Here are some before and after pictures of our work to fix it up:

This is a picture of the house before we started stripping the old rawhide. We had to cut the tree down because it was growing into the road and the driveway in a number 4 configuration.

After many labor hours of stripping, wood treating, and recoating with Log Home the front now looks like:

This is the before and after of the back corner of the hosue.

Before and after of one of our bathrooms (there are two).

And here is the famous clown room:

We still have a lot of work to do. Oh the joys of home ownership.

Winter Pics

(Click for Slideshow of even more pictures)

First snow of the year

Gidget is tired

Sometimes Max feels like an inmate

As an intellectual, Noodle would like to let you know ...

Welcome 2009, how wonderful it is to see you!

So Max, our beagle, does not like fireworks. We were hoping it would not be too bad this year being that it was -5 outside. They were going off from about midnight to 2:30 am. I did not know that max could fit under our bed.

Max is fine now and seems to have made a full recovery. If I didn't know better I would say that he was a victim of war by his actions. Gidget, our other dog was fine and took advantage of steeling Oran's spot on the bed. All in all, there was only two spots on the floor that we needed to clean up.

Oran's night included a lot of tissue (he is getting over a cold), a little champagne, and a small superficial stab wound (that will teach him to use the dishwasher as a hand rest). Jennifer's night fared better and we both made it into the year 2009 without any other injuries or mishaps. We watched CNN's coverage of Time Square where we herd Kathy Griffin yell to some hecklers with some inappropriate words and Bourbon Street's bawdy degenerates who were flipping off the camera and yelling obscenities.

This afternoon we welcomed the 2009 year with coffee and breakfast burritos snuggled up with Max, Gidget and Noodle. There are 18 days till the O day inauguration and we are hoping for the best for us and everyone we know. Maybe we can turn the heat back on in the house soon.