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A little while later the sun came out, and this time it really was beautiful

so much for our orchard...at least it swept away our p.o.s. green house. :laugh: :cry: (at the same time) **Update** Thank the gods...the water just started to recede. Although the week/weekend forecast isn't looking good...

so...we can't get the cars out of the drive way, to the top of the road in the background. We live in valley

that lake you see is where our front lawn used to be

the retaining wall that we built last time it flooded....

outside my window

Scot woke up to this...

and it's still ....raining

Dad stayed home today....

So I feel like my Christmas has been an episode of Arrested Development. It all started with Christmas dinner…. It was an un-traditional dinner of pork/beef barbequed ribs and green salad. Sorry, we didn’t kill any more turkeys this year (I’m pointing at you, turkey-killer!). But that’s not the interesting part. My Mom’s mom, not to be confused with my Dad’s mom, invited one of her friends over for the dinner. Now, I’ve met this man before, so I wasn’t surprised when he started speaking nonsense and drinking too much. (To say the least, he’s a bit off ). He’d begin talking, start mumbling (to no one in particular), and suddenly he’d hear a word that someone said at the other end of the table, and suddenly he’d use that word, and end up somewhere else than where he started…if we can ever say he ‘started’ . Now if these “mumblings of a madman” didn’t tick me off to his…madness…well then his drinking habits did. He came over intoxicated, and proceeded to drink another 4-5 beers wit...

Last nigth I went out with some dear old friends. Not just old friends, but Old, old friends. No seriously, they're all either married, have extreme facial hair (Evan now looks like Captain Ahab), or work 40 hour weeks (inconceivable!). But yes, we met at our traditional Round Table Pizza, in the mall (I'm starting to wonder if that was a good tradition to start). It took 20 minutes to find parking. I didn't even know there were enough cars to fill our parking lot. After reminissing over how old we were, we went and bought beer (thank you Sean), and went back to Danny's for the traditional: movies, chips, poker (+ beer). Other than that, I don't really remember what happened. Kidding! I only had 3 beers over the course of a few hours. Although everyone else will tell you my brain was on vacation. I will rebut that now and say it was not. Coincidently, I lost horribly at poker. I blame the chips. The tortilla chips. But all is well now. It's too cl...

Yesterday Jonathan and Carrie came over with little Leia. I can't believe the last time I saw any of them was this summer when she was just born. She's so adorable now (mother and child). She'd puff up her cheecks and make noises while opening her mouth like a fish (just the child). But yeah, seeing Leia made me feel pretty good for my childhood friend now faced with fatherhood. With a cute kid like that, it can't/won't be that bad. And Carrie is taking a semester off from school so she can recoup (she told me that the last semester + kid nearly killed her). I don't know how she did it. But things seem to be working out for the both of them. Jon will be attending UC Davis this spring, so I'm happy for him. Aww...Such a cute family. Aww....look at that blob of cuteness in my arms!

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I already have a xanga...do I really want this one more?