Current Mood: Beautiful Day

I didn’t do much today work wise, which is cool on one hand but that means I’ll be focusing on it tomorrow.  After having heat, it has been nice outside, which means that the house has been chilly.  It has been getting in the 50-60s at night.  I did get a walk in the last 2 days and went tanning yesterday.

We were thinking of heading down to the farmers market, but we really have a hard time getting moving on the weekend.  I think it is since we get up Mon-Fri for the gym and then work that we just don’t want to have to get up.   We did our normal Sunday cleaning done on Saturday and I did take the steam-vac to the living room.  Hopefully it will look better in the fully daylight.  It looks as if we have gray marks, I think it has to be soot from gas fireplace……annoying.

We got my tickets to Indiana ordered for Dec, with the ticket prices and the cutting of routes, we figured it would be best.  Doing the same as last year, after Thanksgiving before Xmas…..trying to miss the worst of the holiday traffic.

We watched Eastern Promises last night, it can be pretty gruesome and very disturbing, but is very good with some unseen twists.  Which also reminded me of an article that I read the other day that was very disturbing : Russia’s sex slave industry thrives, rights groups say

I am a firm believer in CONSENTING ADULTS doing what they want, including being able to be in the sex industry.  So it totally turns my stomach that people are being forced into sexual slavery, which is ran by the lowest scum of the earth  :  Online Resources to Help End Sexual Exploitation

When Sex Is Not as Private as You Expect

**Stay the hell out of the bedroom…and give me a break, Chippendales?!?  They are some of the cleanest of dancers……yeah, look at the men’s strip clubs and I’ve been in a few.

Time to End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’?

A bipartisan study by retired military officers concluded that gays serving openly in the military would have little effect on a unit’s ability to fight.

**Now if other countries can do this, why the hell can’t we?  Besides, the generation that is joining is totally different from previous generations….just look at the shows. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy , Will & Grace

Military Soft On Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?

But Espinoza says if the policy were changed, the troops would have to fall in line. “You can believe that black people are not as smart as white people - you can believe that and still serve in the U.S. uniform. You can believe that women should be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen - you can believe that. But you cannot bring those beliefs to your job front,” she says.

**This is such a true comment.  Racism and sexism still exist in the military, but in the end, the job comes 1st because your life may depend on that person.

Oil Tycoon Places $10 Billion Bet on Earth

Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens is building the world’s largest wind farm in Texas, where windswept, wide-open spaces are an untapped, powerful resource.

“I don’t see it as that complicated,” said Pickens, who’s been in the oil business his whole life. “The way I feel about the oil business, there’s no question, we’re in decline in the United States.”

**I sure don’t agree with this guys politics (financed the swift boat ads) but at least someone is taking the bull by the horns.  Come on, within a year of entering WWII we had nearly all of our factories turned over to making the needed planes and weapons.  Why the hell can’t we do that again?  That is why I think Al Gores goal is possible…..and no it won’t be easy but it will pay off in the long run.

Iraqi PM Supports Obama’s Withdrawal Plan

He added, “U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama is right when he talks about 16 months.”

Al-Maliki deferred, however, from offering outright support for Obama’s candidacy. “Of course, this is by no means an election endorsement,” he said. “Who they choose as their president is the Americans’ business.”

**I know that he backed off from this, pisses me off that the Administration is dictating to them what to say….. but I hope his statement bodes well for Obama in the long run.

Obama Comes to Kabul

Asked if he planned to relay some tough talk to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, he said, “I’m more interested in listening than doing a lot of talking. And I think it is very important to recognize that I’m going over there as a U.S. Senator. We have one president at a time, so it’s the president’s job to deliver those messages.”

**He gave an excellent answer to that question.  Until he is President, it is not his place to talk “tough”

Library Confrontation Points up Privacy Dilemma

Five state police detectives wanted to seize Kimball Public Library’s public access computers as they frantically searched for a 12-year-old girl, acting on a tip that she sometimes used the terminals.

Flint demanded a search warrant, touching off a confrontation that pitted the privacy rights of library patrons against the rights of police on official business.

**I feel bad about the girl that was murdered, but I’m very please to hear that some libraries are doing the right thing on balancing our civil rights and privacy.

I got a little more work done today, not too much more but some.  My desk area doesn’t look as messy anyway……grin

House hunting is sucking, but we may have a few more leads.  We have to give our answer to our present landload by the 1st.  We are wondering if we can go month-to-month, for 1 month and then if we don’t find anything, do the year lease.  The problem with the month-to-month is that the rent jumps way more then it is worth.  I expect a small jump, but not more then it is worth.

And on top of that we have now have a last minute trip, right when we are suppose to be moving….icks.  But this is one trip we could not turn down, it is a business trip but it promises to be a blast.  We are going to be meeting some friends in Curacao, an island just north of South America.  We will finally be able to use our passports, heck I’ve been using mine in the airports for domestic travel  just to use it since we paid for the damn thing and jumped through all the hoops……I know I’m goofy…….lol

Gore Pushes for Sweeping Changes to Energy Policy

“I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean, carbon-free sources within 10 years,” Gore said, speaking from Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., where he called for a full switch to solar, wind and other renewable energy sources. 

**You know we could do it, if our leaders got some balls.  What I would love is for the government or a philantist (sp) to just put solar panels on all the housing, starting with the poor and the working class because they are the hardest hit.  Once you take care of them and get them adding energy into powergrid it will help to lower energy prices and then the price of getting the solar panels would start to go down. And at the same time we would be investing into other technologies.

Texas gives green light to lots more wind power

AUSTIN, Texas - Texas officials gave the go-ahead Thursday to the nation’s largest wind-power project, a plan to build billions of dollars worth of new transmission lines to bring pollution-free energy from gusty West Texas to urban areas.

**More on the green front.  Our national government has been sucking on taking the lead, but it is great to see states take the lead, such as Texas and California has the guts to do.

Bush Proposal to Change Abortion Definition

“One of the most troubling aspects of the proposed rules is the overly-broad definition of ‘abortion,’” write Clinton and Murray. “This definition would allow health-care corporations or individuals to classify many common forms of contraception — including the birth control pill, emergency contraception and IUDs — ‘abortions’ and therefore to refuse to provide contraception to women who need it.

“As a consequence, these draft regulations could disrupt state laws securing women’s access to birth control. They could jeopardize federal programs like Medicaid and Title X that provide family-planning services to millions of women. They could even undermine state laws that ensure survivors of sexual assault and rape receive emergency contraception in hospital emergency rooms,” they write.

**You have no idea how pissed off I am about this.  I did get an email petition and signed it, then forwarded it on to my family.  Then I sent some money to NARAL.

New Yorkers try to swallow calorie sticker shock

Nora Cara was flabbergasted.

She was about to order her usual morning coffee and muffin at Dunkin’ Donuts when she saw the new calorie labels. The chocolate chip muffin she had her eye on was 630 calories.

“I was blown away,” said Cara, a 27-year-old homemaker from Forest Hills in New York City. “I’m not a no-carb type of person, and I usually don’t even think about it. But you pick up a little muffin with your coffee, and it has 630 calories in it? That’s a bit extreme!”

**I would love this to be nation wide.  Just think of the effect that this education would do to people’s eating habits?  Maybe it would help this nation and it obesity and it would sure help me when we are out to eat.

Voters to decide on naming sewage plant for Bush

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush’s years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot.

The measure certified Thursday would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

Supporters say the idea is to commemorate the mess they claim Bush has left behind by actions such as the war in Iraq.

Local Republicans say the plan stinks and they will oppose it.

**I love this!!!  This is classic…….lol  Talk about the karma coming back on Bush……….grin

Current Mood: Exhausted

It was nice to do things a little more slowly today.  I’ve been doing a bit of running around while trying to get things done and it is exhausting.  Today, the only place I went was tanning.  Which gave me time to get things done around the house and some work caught up. Luckly I got nearly all of our packing done, just have to top it off and get the laptop bag packed.  It is the best I have felt in a long time about packing and not rushing around to do it.

Yesterday I had to return somethings to the store, pick up a few more things and get my nails done.  Tomorrow after the gym I have to stop by for a color touch up (part of the service) and get my waxing.  Then I have to get all my work done that I can.

I was able to get out and do a walk today.  It was nice, didn’t get a chance last weekend and I didn’t care for it.  Unfortunately it looks like it is going to start getting hot when we are gone.  =(  It concerns me about our cats.  We will keep the fans going on high and have the windows opened on the top floor for some air.  It isn’t going to be as hot as it had gotten but still….I don’t like to leave them without air.

Driveway dispute pits neighbor against neighbor

Last Wednesday, his neighbor of six years cut large square holes in the middle of Conroy’s driveway.

Conroy, 83, told KATU News that “I’ve had this driveway since I lived here, which is almost 35 years now. There was no warning. He never said anything. He never threatened anything.”

**Just a local news story that has caught my attention……that Wilkerson must have a winning personality, because this part about his wife sums it up  :

Wilkerson’s soon-to-be ex-wife says she, too, was shocked when the fence started going up, but is not surprised at her husbands actions.

“There’s a reason we’re getting divorced,” she said.

Feds’ closed-door deal could ease development

MISSOULA, Mont. - The Bush administration is preparing to ease the way for the nation’s largest private landowner to convert hundreds of thousands of acres of mountain forestland to residential subdivisions.

The deal was struck behind closed doors between Mark E. Rey, the former timber lobbyist who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, and Plum Creek Timber Co., a former logging company turned real estate investment trust that is building homes. Plum Creek owns more than 8 million acres nationwide, including 1.2 million acres in the mountains of western Montana, where local officials were stunned and outraged at the deal.

“We have 40 years of Forest Service history that has been reversed in the last three months,” said Pat O’Herren, an official in Missoula County, which is threatening to sue the Forest Service for forgoing environmental assessments and other procedures that would have given the public a voice in the matter.

**I so can’t wait for Bush to get out of office.  He is destroying so much that piece of shit……gggrrrr

82-Year-Old American Woman Frees Child Slaves In Nepal

This 82-year-old retired lawyer from California now spends half of her time living in Katmandu, Nepal, where she works to free child slaves.

“It’s very difficult to think that in the 21st century, this is a practice,” said Murray. But, she argued, “it’s happening all over the world, and a lot of people don’t know about it.”

 **Sadly this still happens, yet we will start a war over oil, but yet won’t do a damn thing about slavery…..don’t you think those are some messed up priorities?

Current Mood: Patriotic

We are taking easy today.  We did do some light running to pick up a few things for our trip next week, but we did forgo the gym.    I feel guilty about it, but happy on what I got done in the way packing.  So I stayed active regardless.  And we spent the day watching the John Adams Miniseries on HBO again as they ran them back to back.

People are setting off fireworks.  I love fireworks that sparkle.  I hate ones that do nothing but noise….annoying.  I really don’t carry for neighbors setting them off.  I prefer seeing a pro display….I’m a snob.  I wonder if the people setting them off have any idea or reflection of why they are part of the 4th.  Here is a little history lesson, it is replicate the sound of battle during the Revolutionary War.

When I was little, I lived on an Army Post in Maryland and every 4th they would do an reenactment of the a battle between the British and the Continental Army.  That was 4th of July to me….not the parades and all the stuff that small town America does.  It also gave me my love and appreciation for our Founding History.  I know I’m a sap about it, heck I have a carry a copy of the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence in my purse.

Here is some interesting articles on Patriotism that Time ran :

The War Over Patriotism

**This really explains the difference in how the Dems & GOP see it differently and it is sad that it makes such a division.  It really is a combination of both….loving your country regardless, but knowing our faults and dirty and always strive to improve and attain what we should be ideally.  To me, if you do not question and challenge your government, then you are not much of an American….not what the GOP believes, who they label traitors.  Our country is founded on speaking out and taking our government to task.

McCain and Obama on Patriotism

**From the candidates themselves.

The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Current Mood: Sad

Larry Harmon, longtime Bozo the Clown, dies

Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83.

**I grew up watching Bozo the Clown on WGN when spending the summers with my grandparents in NW Indiana….or for natives…the Region.  =(

Current Mood: Annoyed

For all those women who are upset that Clinton lost, do you really want McCain?  Because he will set women back even further :

Feminists for McCain? Not So Much

 How antichoice is John McCain? Let’s leave the psychological tea leaves out of it and look at his record. In his four years in the House, from 1983 to 1986, he cast eleven votes on reproductive issues. Ten were antichoice. Of 119 such votes in the Senate, 115 were antichoice, including votes for the ban on so-called partial-birth abortions and for the “gag rule,” which refuses funds to clinics abroad that so much as mention abortion. In 1999, the year he said he opposed repeal of Roe on health grounds, he voted against a bill that would have permitted servicewomen overseas, where safe, legal abortion is often unavailable, to pay out of their own pockets for abortions in military hospitals.

His record on contraception and sex education is just as bad. He voted against a 2005 budget amendment, sponsored by Senator Hillary Clinton, that would have allotted $100 million to reduce teen pregnancy by means of education and birth control. He voted to require parental consent for birth control for teenage girls and to abolish Title X, which funds birth control and gynecological care for the poor. He voted against requiring insurance companies to pay for prescription contraception, when they pay for other prescription drugs–like, um, Viagra. The beat goes on, and on. With a handful of minor exceptions (he voted to confirm prochoice Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher after voting against prochoice Dr. Joycelyn Elders), he has a just about perfect antichoice record, including votes to confirm the Supreme Court nominations of Thomas, Roberts and Alito.

**NO ONE is going to tell me what I can do with my body!  And his stance on sex education?!?  No way.

Loving John McCain

Flip-Flop Free Pass

It is a challenge to find an issue on which McCain has stood his ground in the face of opposition from his party’s extremist establishment. “How about abortion?” you ask. Well, speaking to the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle in August 1999, McCain explained, “Certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America” to be subject to “illegal and dangerous operations.” And McCain today? “I do not support Roe v. Wade–it should be overturned.” McCain says he favors a rape and incest exception for abortion prohibitions, but his party’s platform refuses to allow for any such exceptions. If the candidate plans on fighting to get this restrictive party plank changed, however, he has kept that information secret so far. What’s more, McCain has voted for every one of Bush’s judicial appointments, all of whom oppose a woman’s right to choose. What about gay marriage? In 2006 McCain was one of only seven Republican senators to vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment; two years later he told Chris Matthews, “I think gay marriages should be allowed” when states decide to legalize gay unions. Today McCain not only opposes gay marriage but favors denying benefits to unmarried couples, period.

McCain’s addiction to politically convenient flip-floppery is even evident regarding the issue with which his “maverick” reputation is most closely associated–political reform. Recall that much of McCain’s reputation as a reformer derives from the partnership he forged with Democratic Senator Russ Feingold to try to reform the nation’s campaign finance laws. He did so, he said at the time, out of a sense of remorse over his involvement with the “Keating Five,” when he helped himself to free flights on Charles Keating’s jets and asked regulators to go easy on the corrupt financier during a period when his wife happened to be Keating’s investment partner. McCain received an Ethics Committee reprimand, and he has consistently pointed to his regret over his role in the scandal as his primary motivation for his commitment to the issue, over the objection of many in his party.

That’s the theory anyway. And it is one so widely accepted by McCain’s fans in the mainstream media that many do not feel an obligation to examine McCain’s behavior anymore to determine whether he bothers adhering to the laws he wrote. Time managing editor Richard Stengel, for instance, explains that “McCain is so pure on this issue, ever since the Keating Five when he saw the light…. McCain has toed the line about lobbyists, about campaign fundraising.”

In fact, McCain’s devotion to remaining within his much-proclaimed ethical guidelines is a far murkier matter. It’s not just his close friendship and professional relationship with lobbyist Vicki Iseman, revealed by the New York Times, that causes so many titters–it’s that McCain flew on the private jet of Iseman’s client Lowell Paxson and repeatedly carried out legislative favors on his behalf. Paxson wasn’t the only client of Iseman’s who appeared to get special attention from McCain; the Times documented other instances where legislation introduced by McCain dovetailed with key priorities of other companies, in the telecommunications and cruise ship industries, represented by Iseman’s firm–all of which contributed tens of thousands of dollars to his presidential campaign.

**This article is a must read for those who don’t see how the media gives McCain a free pass.

Current Mood: Beautiful Day

It has cooled down nicely.  It didn’t get nearly as hot as it did yesterday.  Yesterday we got up to 100degrees and today about 87….so much better. And it didn’t last, it started to cool down around 6pm.  Yesterday it was getting hotter at that time…icks.

The clouds moved in and it started to rumbled.  But since it was finally nice, I went for a walk which meant of course that it started to rain.  On the way back there was a huge clap of thunder.  Next thing I know my hubby was calling me to make sure I was on the way home.  I just heard it, but he saw the lightening.  I felt perfectly safe and not worried, but some folks south of us got hit :  Two men struck by lightning while standing under trees in Damascus =(

We got through this heat a lot better then last time.  But we were better prepared…we had our 2 fans and got air moving, then spent the hottest part of the day downstairs.  That was a pain, because I can do some work but the work that I needed to do is a hard to do down there…..I need my desk and chair, a proper set up.

Tomorrow and the next day will be nothing but focus on work…..icks.

Bizarre origins of wedding traditions

Talk about your runaway brides — the original duty of a “Best Man” was to serve as armed backup for the groom in case he had to resort to kidnapping his intended bride away from disapproving parents. The “best” part of that title refers to his skill with a sword, should the need arise. (You wouldn’t want to take the “just okay” member of your weapon-wielding posse with you to steal yourself a wife, would you?)

The best man stands guard next to the groom right up through the exchange of vows (and later, outside the newlyweds’ bedroom door), just in case anyone should attack or if a non-acquiescent bride should try to make a run for it.

It’s said that feisty groups like the Huns, Goths and Visigoths took so many brides by force that they kept a cache of weapons stored beneath the floorboards of churches for convenience.

**That is kind of whacked.  I’m so glad that the meaning of the best man as changed…..

This are pictures that we took while at Powell Butte I think nearly all  of them are Torn’s work, I’ve put the our pictures together and have lost track.

Mt St. Helen’s 1

A Daisy Field 1

Mt Adams 1

**Hiding in the background.

Mt Hood Through a Field of Grass

**I really like how Torn took this one.

A Daisy Field 2

Mt Hood 1

Meadow 1

Mt Hood Zoomed In

Mt Jefferson Peeking Out

A Young Buck with Velvet Antlers

Wooded Area 1

Self Portrait Powell Butte

Meadow & Mt Hood

How can you not fall in love with this scenery?  And we are just addicted of trying to get that perfect picture of Mt Hood.

Current Mood: Happy

Rubber Doll
Polite businesswoman by day, international fetish icon by night

**A friend of ours has really taken off for fetish parties and shows.  I love her style and creativity.  What is even better, she is a real sweety and total deserving of the attention.  It is always great to see nice hard working people make it.