I Caught You A Delicious Trout -- On Your Birthday

Happy birthday Hot Wife, I went trout fishing. Wow! What a great wife, while on vacation (on her birthday) she didn't mind me waking up early to go trout fishing. Woo Hoo! (there you go Keeeiiiitttthhhh)

Bert Bert, Tacy, Pop Pop, and I did pretty will and ended up with about 50 or so rainbows. That pretty good catching for around four hours of fishing!

Back to Hot Wife's birthday. The highlight meal of the day was probably the Pancake Pantry. Even though she ate buckwheat pancakes, I think she really enjoyed them. Well, I take that back, the staff at Fudruckers did wish her AKA Nicky Babe a very happy birthday. Then Mrs. Brown Teeth, came by to say that she was sorry for embarrassing her. Hot Wife was a good sport and even let Bert Bert serenade her with the Rick and Bubba anniversary song, but birthday rendition.

So Long - Mahalo Nui Loa

The inventor of the Hawaiian shirt died. Alfred Shaheen pioneered the "aloha shirt" industry by turning it from a small local trade to a world-wide icon of pop culture. Really... Did I just say that?

Anyway, where would we be without this guy. Whether you think, hum, "that guy must be pretty confident wearing such a hideous shirt", or "wow, here comes the funny guy", our world would be less interesting without those crazy shirts.

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Merry Christmas Uno

We just got back from a Christmas visit with our family in Georgia. We had a great time visiting, eating, and opening presents!

Upon our arrival back home today, we were planning to put together one of O's new toys from Duff and CeCe -- a full-size playhouse.

First it was a pain in the tail feathers to put together, but once we got it up, O loved it. She walked right in and had a tea party. Yea!

The one thing that Duff and CeCe did not account for in their toy transaction is our lack of space in our itty-bitty lovely house. So right now it's in the hall way. I hope we don't trip over it on a midnight trip to the potty!!!

The house is great and O absolutely loves it. So... I suppose the solution is to make it work. Maybe we'll have to give up something like the diaper changing table. Well shouldn't she be potty training now anyway? Maybe this will be a good excuse to begin.

We can't wait to see O play in her house more tomorrow!

Also, in the recesses of our minds we are still very scared since one more set of grandparents has not shown their plan for O's Christmas. We are fearfull that there will be even more plastic stuff in our house before the end of the week. Oh well, I guess this is just part of growing up. For O, or for US, I don't know which!

By the way, I've got more pictures uploaded. Just click the picture above and the link will take you to more.

Why Wolf Camera Stinks

1. Their store has more picture frames and such than actual photography equipment.
2. They don't have items such as film or tripod accessories in stock. You can't sell what you don't have.
3. While they still carry diverse equipment, the employees aren't trained to know about many of the higher end products.
4. Scrapbooks are for sissys.
5. They don't sell a decent selection of film. I'm not even looking for a great selection - decent will do.

Back when I first started going to Wolf they looked totally different. They had great equipment in stock and knew about it. I guess like many businesses, they have dumbed down to the lease common denominator. I like to patronize area stores, but I suppose, I'll have to start shopping like Ron - online.

Duffey's got a big ole head.

It started off with a co-worker seeing one of my pictures of Birmingham. She asked if I could put it in sepia and emailed to her so that she could print it for a friend. Of course I obliged and sent it to her.

She gets the canvas back and it looks awesome there here's the kicker... She asked me to sign my work. "My work!" I didn't know if had work.

Anyway, with a newly sized head, I signed my work. If I'm famous one day, Julie you can know you have received my first signed masterpiece. "Masterpiece" used loosely.