Facebook album test

Since I haven't been real good about updating this, I thought I would try linking to Facebook photo albums and see if that works.
Here are some elk I saw this morning:
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Saturday morning

Stucco going up



Kids new favorite room

Things to be happy about

Deer in front of the house in the snow
The first fire in the woodstove in the new room.

The twins turned 6

I'm slow on the update..... they turned 6 on September 11........

A few new room pictures

Same old slideshow, but there should be about 6 new pix at the end that show the current status of the new room:

New room pix

New Room!

The old back porch is gone and the new room has started taking shape!

Single Speed World Championships 2009

We went to the Single Speed World Championships in Durango this weekend. Our friend Scott Simmons took 22nd out of over 1000 riders. Single Speeders are a unique breed.......

New Tribal Administration Building

I know, I know, I haven't updated this in a while. We've taken a trip to OR & CA and spent 3 weeks in NH since the last update. I figured I throw up some picture from the new building next to my office. The Grand Opening was today, very nice.

Cali Part 2

More California pix:

California

First pix

New OR pix

I added some pictures from today to the web album and they seem to have added themselves to the slideshow below. Click on any picture in the slideshow to go to the web album (better viewing).
On to CA tomorrow.....

Oregon continued

Some pix from our first sunny day (yesterday).
I have a really bad connection so I'll add captions later.

Oregon

First trip pix

Hummingbird nest followup

I rode over to Farmington yesterday and stopped by the hummingbird nest. It looks like at least one of the eggs has hatched. I forgot to bring the camera so had to use my cell phone to take a picture. The little guy is about as big as my first knuckle.

Lake City 4th of July

Being alone for the 4th, I decided to take a trip north and see Craig & Mandy in Lake City.
Didn't do too much but got in a fantastic 4 hour dirtbike ride up Engineer and Cinnamon passes. Left for home Sunday night and creamed a deer driving down Wolf Creek Pass last night. No major damage to the 4Runner but the deer ain't looking so good.

Hummingbird Egg picture

Not sure why this one didn't post with the others. Oh well, here's the eggs.

Hummingbird Nest

We went to Farmington on Saturday to get new tires. The kids were really hyper so we went to a park to let them burn off some energy.

I noticed a hummingbird buzzing around making a lot of noise and acting angry. After a few minutes I saw it land on a branch and sit there for a while. Eventually it flew right over my head and landed in this nest.

There were 2 eggs that were about double the size of a Tic-Tac and about the same shape. Very cool!

Drive up Cumbres Pass

We went for a drive up the pass (get the kids out of the house so mom can organize).
Good time in spite of a passing thunderstorm:

La Puente yardsale

So we went for a little drive in the country and stopped by a yard sale a friend had told us about. Turns out the lathe that was for sale isn't something I needed but the box of stuff with the BB gun in it was too good to pass up for $5.00..... Mom also hit paydirt and scored a little table with REAL CRACKLE PAINT on it.... (feigned excitement)
After that we hiked to some falls and came home and took a few pictures of poppys.
The BIG adventure is tomorrow.

Bag of Crap

Many have tried to win the WOOT.Com "Bag of Crap" over the years (including the author) without success. During the last WOOT-Off I was finally able to place my order before the servers crashed and the box arrived today. With great anticipation I hurried to the Post Office after work and picked up my box. The Postmaster was astounded that I had purchased the contents of a box and had no idea what might be inside. I offered to open it right there so he could watch and we were both astonished at what you can get for a $3.00 fee (plus the standard $5.00 shipping) over the Internets:

Concrete counters

The counters are all done! Sara and Holly applied the acid stain yesterday and washed them down today. I came down and sealed them with Holly. They look great (to us anyway)!!

New Doors

Our first ever bedroom door!! It will triple lock from the inside.
New (old) cabinets almost done.












Kids outside new bathroom (old door)

Foxy

A fox kit behind the house where we are staying in Pagosa Springs

Extended lunchbreak

Went home at lunchtime and got the bike out. Happy times

The bedroom floor

Dave and Sara sanding the bedroom floor. It is a lot redder than the kitchen.

Geese

I saw these little guys on the way home last night. Pretty cute.

Painting

Did some painting today:

From House

The new (old) floor.

Here's how the kitchen floor looks now (click picture for the album, new pictures are at the end)

From House

Sheep on the way to work

Floor pix up

Click on the web album in the post below. Should be some pictures of the pine flooring that was under the old linoleum in the kitchen. Supposed to be done in the kitchen and bedroom by Monday. Looks good so far!

Slideshow updates

Apparently if I add new photos to the Web Album it will also update the slideshow with the new photos as well. It might be easier just to click on this:

House

Hmm.....

Well, I updated some photos of Sara and Dave's hard work today to the Web-Album. I am not sure if the slide show on the posting below will include these new photos or not.....?
If it doesn't, click on the slideshow a couple times and it will open the online album and you can see them from there.
I'm home alone in a cold, very dusty house tonight. Sara & Dave will be back at it tomorrow.

House work

Well, the long awaited house renovation has begun. Our friend Dave has been working for a couple days now and things are really progressing. Up first will be enclosing the porch and making some more storage space and a laundry room. Next will come the addition of a new bathroom in the front bedroom/classroom and then on to the kitchen where I don't know what is happening, aside from all new appliances and cabinets. I haven't really 'taken charge' on this one so I'm a little out of the loop on what all is going to go down. Here's the pix (I recommend clicking on the slideshow until it opens the web-album where you can view the captions better):

Another trip to Abiquiu

The kids and I drove down to Abiquiu on Saturday for some more exploring. I was looking at an area on Google Maps that I wanted to hike into. Turns out it involved a major descent into a canyon that we thought we could tackle another day when we had more supplies (snacks). We retreated and did a little scrambling around and found some arrowheads and cool rocks instead. We shall return.....

Trip to Monte Vista

I had to go over the pass to Monte Vista, Colorado this morning for a Cutthroat Trout meeting and saw all these Sandhill Cranes up in the Valley. Amazing how many there are!

Abiquiu Adventures

We took a little drive about an hour south today and did some exploring. We all had fun:

Florida pix

New friend

A new friend I caught up with at the beach today.

The captive

Sawyer's little buddy.

Disney

Hike to the river

The kids and I took a hike down to the river on Saturday while mom cleaned the house.
We saw a porcupine in a tree.

Bowling night

We had a little bowling party on Friday night in the building I work in.

Swimming at work

Pictures

Fox on a hot tin roof

So....