more random shots....

Both Nolan and Caleb put their jewelry they made on the fridge. They have really neat clasps theses days and the boys both got magnetic clasps. I made Nolan put his back on for a minute to take a picture and this was his pose. Caleb wore his bracelet for me.


Niko came over to play and they played a little Playstation after they had gotten all of the hotwheels out, played with lightsabers and destroyed the house.


Caleb's not quite as good as Nolan with the picture taking, but he's doing a lot better. Here's two that he took.


Caleb is also still enjoying picking glass out of the recycled baserock that we used on the driveway. I've been really impressed with how it's held up and recommend it as a great product, picking the pretty glass pieces is just a bonus!

Legos, sushi and last of the flowers...

Got to make some spaceships out of megablocks. The newer legos are kind of lame because they are SO small and they all come in kits to make specific things now. No more piles of random sizes and colors to use your own imagination. I really still like the megablocks the best. The greatest thing the kids learn is patience as they figure out the physics of making things stay together, and with their brothers destroying their creations.




A girl came over to take pictures of my bees for her photography project. She's using black and white film and a double lens camera. She'll give me copies of my prints, but she took a few with my digital this time. We had to do a retake because her camera didn't expose the film the first time. This was my first try in the hive without my suit and stuff and I was pretty nervous. Lots of deep breathing.




I am having trouble focusing on work, but I am loving my new job and I have the best boss in the world. He took us to free sushi! I'll have to get it together soon and become more productive to pay him back.

Here's Flor and her newest addition (who eats sushi!)

Clare...not so sure about here tower of tempura. It was delicious though.


My rolls were scrumtious and I loved the tea cups.

Trever and Cheryl (lunch was for her birthday)a

Most of the crew plus Bob's son Evan.

Sarah and Flor

And there's Bob, the best boss ever! (hope he reads this...)







The wildflowers I planted on the septic mound are still doing well, except the deer have really browsed them. I've still got the poppies, cosmos and lupine but other fun things are coming up as well like gilia, nemophila and the fava beans I planted.



I've been having a really bad problem with groundhogs, but I saw a crane fly (Tipulidae) larvae in the dirt here. I've never seen the terrestrial larvae, only the aquatic so it was neat. The boys like it too, but kept saying it was an inchworm or catepillar. Not Lepidopteran I'd protest, clearly Dipteran.

I've been able to go for a few longs runs. On saturday I went up Green Diamond property and enjoyed the view of the ocean and clearcuts. Also had a nice walk with Presley by the Parkers house. While the boys played. Most of the birds are gone, but we did have an abundance this year. This little bird was dead in Eureka (probably from a window) and I took a picture because we've had them at the house and I wanted to ID it when I got home.







Caleb and I had gone to the bead shop on our mommy's day last week and Nolan was a little jealous, so I took him in this week when he had an ear infection and didn't go to school. He was MUCH easier to bead with and picked out his own beads and made the necklace himself. Caleb entertained himself running around the store and keeping me busy. I think he just about gave the store owner a nervous breakdown. It was worse than a candy shop.

A few more school pics. Nolan and I caught a small western fence lizard outside and put him in the herp house to keep for awhile. I catch him crickets at night and Nolan named him Frenzy. We took him to school to share. At school the boys play together with cars at freetime and the girls play in the kitchen. They do this naturally and it's not forced at all. There was also a bomb threat and I got stuck on campus for a long time when they closed the roads. Loren is growing out his beard for the winter and while it looks like he's snoozing, he's reading to Nolan for his kindergarten homework, which there seems to be a lot of.