I Rearranged the Living Room

We've replaced the TV cart since this video and got a new lamp for behind the couch.

Can You Say Still Life Cafe Baby?

Potato Leek Soup and Salad with Steamed Beets, Goat Cheese, Pinon Nuts and Oranges covered with French Vinaigrette.

Oh yeah . . . and crunchy bread with cold butter . . . and wine.

Happy Veterans Day Everybody!

Happy Birthday Grandpa!

Charles Frank Wood b. 1919

Sushi Rolls

My First attempt at sushi roll rolling. Mom's here visiting this week. She made on too. It's the basic California Roll roll.

Ta da!

Halloween 2007

Every year on Halloween Calvary Chapel Ridgecrest hosts a Family Fall Festival for the community. They provide games, food, and drinks. Every year John and I contribute with the rest of our chruch family to the production of the event. Last year John cooked meat and I rolled out Indian Fry Bread dough. This year I cooked meat and John fried dough. Doe!

Here I am behind the BBQ. See all those people behind me? They all ate a hambuger or hot dog. We served up around 1,600 hams and dogs. The guy on the right is cooking up tri-tip.

See the flames? That's me stoking the fire with hamburger grease.


Natalie dressed as a pirate. Arrrrh! In her right hand is her bootie bag full of candy.

Kevin sporting BLING and long blonde hair. Gangsta Yo

I Did Finish This

It was fast, easy and fun. It even kind of fits.

Sock Update

Six months later and I'm almost done. By next May I should have a pair!

It's Official

I own twenty pairs of shoes. Twenty-one if you count the shoes I wear for yard work (not pictured).

I almost forgot to picture these . . .

Happy Anniversary Blog.

Happy Anniversary to Us

John and Carrie Boberg married October 12, 2002

Refrigerator Update

And Beef Stew

Tomorrow I'm going to make lentil soup.

Gingerbread

I also made gingerbread tonight.

Morro Bay

A post of some recent activity so you don't think I dropped off the earth. I think I got out of the blogging habit because the last three day weekend I had I didn't do anything but lay on the couch. Seriously. So, I had nothing to post. It's either that or all that picture uploading of the Catalina adventure took a lot out of me and turned me off to blogging for awhile. Or . . . it could be that I've been cheating on my blog by using MySpace . . .

We drove over to Morro Bay a couple weekends ago. The invation came from Michelle and David and Nathaniel. We got together for a short family visit and some ocean bay kayaking.

A view from the house where we stayed.


Here we are ready to get on the water.


We rented kayaks off the boardwalk there in the little town of Morrow Bay.

Here's Kevin getting fitted into his boat.

Natalie looks like a natural.

Brent is beautiful as usual.

Pink Cake

My meager attempt at cake decorating.

Yummy

Happy Columbus Day weekend!

Did You Know . . . ? **Warning - Kinda Geeky**

Did you know one cup of sugar costs approxiamtely 25 cents and one serving of Kool-Aid costs 6 cents?

I've been wondering that for awhile so I finally did the math.

There are 7 and 1/4 ounces of sugar in a cup. Sugar comes in 5 pound bags. One pound equals 16 ounces; that's 80 ounces to a bag. Eighty ounces divided by 7.25 ounces equals 11.03 cups of sugar in one 5 pound bag. A five pound bag of sugar costs approximately $2.50. Two dollars and fifty cents divided by 11.03 cups equals 22.6 cents per cup of sugar.

A Kool-Aid packet costs about 20 cents. A 20 cent packet of Kool-Aid plus a 25 cent cup of sugar amounts to Kool-Aid costing about 45 cents to make. One packet of Kool-Aid makes eight servings. Forty-five cents divided by 8 servings equals six cents (if you round up). By the way, the per serving cost was a spur of the moment thing I figured out just now. So, if you were wondering . . . one serving of Kool-Aid costs about 6 cents and one cup of sugar costs about 25.

Birthday Update

I finally spent more birthday money. I "splurged" on this minty-green bathrobe.

Thanks Mom!

Music Addition

I've added a stand alone player with many of my favorite songs for your listening pleasure while checking in on Days of My Life. If you like the songs so much and want to continue listening even though you're done perusing, leave this page open while continuing to surf on another tab!

Finding new good music is kind of a newly formed hobby for me. It's taken me about a year to create a decent collection of songs I liked so much I actually purchased them from iTunes. There are about 75 songs in my collection so far, not all are included in this stand alone player. I either haven't added them to this playlist yet or they are unavailable for this sort of thing.

So, there ya go.

Euro Metro Man

Brent got a make-over while he was in Germany under the direction of his girlfriend Lara. All the things he would "never" do before he went to Euprope: wear jeans, a collared shirt, those "ridiculuos" oversized sunglasses, a bracelet, oh and cut and dye his hair.

We Also "Did" the Queen Mary

Pictures to follow.

Island Adventure Cont. Stuff We Did

Camping at Hermit Gulch


Swimming to Diving Dock in Avalon Bay

Sitting on the Dock

Lover's Cove

Grey and White Pelicans at Lover's Cove

The Blanche W. (Wrigley Jr.'s grandaughter's boat) for a Flying Fish Tour

Getting Wet on The Blanche W. on the Way to Two Harbors

Two Harbors

John and Carrie Touring the Ups and Downs of Avalon Via a Rented Golf Cart

Natalie and Keving in the Back Seat

Avalon From Way Up High

Private Beach We Later Visited ($2 admission)

Back Side of the Casino.

Glass Bottom Boat Tour

Saw Some Fish

Kevin and John Snorkeling (these two saw a sting ray)

Me Too Snorkeling (my new favorite thing to do)

Natalie Holding a Shell Harvested From the Bottom of This Ocean (unfortunately, we had to put it back; there was a hermit crab living inside)

Island Adventure Cont. Mini Mobiles