The boy tried to ride the dog today. He thinks we need a bigger dog. I think I miss my smaller boy.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Family craft time
Wendall is working on a diorama for school. We thought it might be best to help as much as we could.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Spam
So hard to get a picture of her from the side! Her walks are the only times she isn't trying to gaze directly into my eyes.
Quijana
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Chocolate
The secret to making really good brownies is adding good chocolate. A full Milka bar and five itty bitty Kinder bars made it into tonight's batch.
Quijana
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Sunrise on the next 20 years
Wendall and I have been together for 20 years now. Amazing to think that a friendship could grow into so much more.
Quijana
Monday, February 14, 2011
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Just let me finish this chapter...
75 pages later he put the book aside.
Wendall is listening to the audiobook while reading the book. He picked a book he knows well, "Peter and the Starcatchers". The next book he reads in this manner will be one he's never read or heard.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Lovely burst of sunshine
We've had nothing but storm clouds for the past few days. It was such a joy to see that they had left this beauty alone.
Saturday, January 08, 2011
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Monday, July 05, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Friday, April 09, 2010
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Things to be happy about today
The tree fell the right way. It used to stand right outside the boy's
window.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Friday, January 01, 2010
Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Dinner tonight
Cream of Wheat with butter and raw sugar. Just the thing for a
blustery night.
We are in the middle if a cold snap. The reports say it will be in the
mid sixties tonight. What a nice way to welcome November!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Surfer Boy
When Wendall saw this photo, he said it looked as if I had two photos, one of a perfect sunset, and one of him, and I put the two together. I told him that sometimes the pictures of him really are this good all on their own.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Lunch!
Some saimin for the boy. You probably know it as ramen. He skipped the
noodles and went straight for the broth.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Evening stroll
After dinner at Cholos we sat on the sand at Haleiwa Beach. Just what
we needed this evening.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Morning commute
We made it in last night, after 21 hours of travel. We are exhausted
and oh so happy to be home after so long.
My husband met me at the airport, my kitties met me at the door of my
house. Life is very good.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Getting the car ready to ship
Well that's it, then. Our final duty before hopping a flight west. The
car has been cleaned and processed and is oficially someone else's
responsability until the end of July.
I was able to find a Chevy Impala to drive up to Dulles for our flight
on Saturday. The radio has an input jack for my iPhone, so we are
looking forward to the 200 mile drive. I have the radio production of
"The Return of the Jedi" queued up and ready to go.
Wendall will pick the girls up tomorrow, so I will walk into a house
filled with kitties. They left on Tuesday and are spending a few days
in a kennel until things are set up at the house.
Time to go pack the bags once again.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
A life filled with Aloha
On Thursday, Boy Wendall and I will head to Oahu. Elder Wendall has been there for two weeks, getting everything ready for us. In a truly spectacular fashion he has found a car and a house, meaning that we will spend only one night in a hotel before we move into our new home. We won’t have furniture for the first month, but we will have our own roof, and plenty of space.
Our cats will spend a few days in a kennel so we can have everything ready for them at the house. We have not yet told them that they will be kenneled, but they are well aware that a trip is in the near future. The travel crates and suitcases are the closest things we have to furniture at the moment, so they are impossible to ignore.
Virginia has been a lovely place to call home this past year. We are so grateful for the chance to explore the East Coast and to visit so many people. If we did not get the chance to see you this year, we are sorry, and we invite you to visit us in Hawaii. We do not plan on coming back to the Mainland for at least a year, and our guest room fills up fast, so start planning your trips soon! I can already tell you that July 2009, Holiday 2009-2010, and July 2010 are booked.
See you on the beach!
Quijana and the Wendalls
Friday, June 12, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Chocolate supply
This is proof that chocolate is my ultimate weakness.
I am organizing my pantry, and figured I would show the amount of chocolate I currently have on hand.
It isn't usually this bad. Some of this is to be packaged and sent to a few friends. Some. The Lindt and three of the Milka bars are for the boy, and the Kisses are for the candy dish and for school lunches. Still--I had no idea that I had this much chocolate in the house!
Click on the photo for details of what is in the box.

















































