Yippy skippy! Now you'll have no excuse to permanently abandon us in chat! Hehe . We love you bunches, Michelle. Glad to hear you can participate in all forms of online madness from home once more. *hugs*

Having my very own copy of le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain.

Friday morning coffee with my fabulous baby girl here at the university.

hehe. i like your avatar!

im loving this! summer chat party!
awesome!

i'm liking yours! nice!

somethings are priceless. have fun sweets!

Someone sent this to me in an email. I it caused a pyschedelic relapse. I'm sure I saw this in a mirror sometime around 1970. Pretty certain it was at the marina on Bull Frog Basin at Lake Powell after a week of wandering around the desert eating peyote. Socially speaking, I'm glad that sort of activity went out of style.

Phone calls from good friends.
Plans for breakfast picnics and general insanity.
Fresh apples.

I agree... kylie's avatar pushes the cuteness envelope.

this pushes the other cuteness envelope

Her name is Layla... she holds my heart in her hand.

Hope you guys have a great time together, Bill. I'm off to Albany to bring our first-born (and all his gear) home this Saturday.

Pictures.
We want pictures Mr Cooper

So kayjay, 'fess up -- do you like have your own personal photographer who follows you around and takes all these great photos?

Memories of wonderful vacations.
Rainbow Bridge (pre Lake Powell) web photo

friends leaving music messages on your machine!

thank you! you know who you are. mwah.

Trudes... I remember the year and the controversy when the lake reached Rainbow Bridge.

Even farther back, just before they filled the lake, before the canyon was destroyed, when I was a very small boy, my father used to take me into Glenn Canyon. My earliest memory of the wilderness was watching the panorama floating past my face through the windscreen of dad's old Stinson Voyager, flying through the canyon, chasing the river.

starting to cry again... damn.

black currant anything!

Scotty and all sunworshippers:
Climbing on the sandstone at Lake Powell and feeling the intensity of that Utah sun on your skin, then jumping in water so clear you could see all the way to the bottom. Instant cool off.
Wahweap.
Dangling Rope.
Hall's Crossing.
web photo...

Pleasant dreams.

Getting things done.

have you ever tired Grether's Pastilles for your throat? (They used to be Allenbury's Pastilles)

Race weekend

no! but i will now! are they in health food stores? i have never seen these.

I am not sure, but I think I last found them at sweetnostalgia.com. They are imported from Switzerland, I think. When I was a child my dad used them when he had been using his voice a lot or was feeling dry or hoarse in the throat. They are not cheap, but they really do soothe my throat when I get a little hoarse. A Google search is how I found them when I was remembering my childhood.

one of my favorite things====PAYDAY! always a good thing

HOORAH i agree to a payday being a happy day. another great thing? a weekend alone with my boyfriend without the kids (except for the teen, but she's usually out all night, anyway) ... ahhh ... peace and quiet of a still house ... how wonderful ...

walking home in the rain
stained glass windows
pews in places other than church
test tubes and beekers filled with non-science stuff
vintage t shirts
art installations in gardens

<corny dad alert>

going to lunch and a little shopping with my home-for-a-week daughter who knows so well how to manipulate the father from whom she has gained so many inherited traits and passions. How many dads get to discuss theology with a daughter over Chik-Fil-A?


I know. That's almost as sickening as drinking syrup from the bottle, but I warned you.

nope! that's lovely.

as gross and sickening as that is, ya know, you bein' mushy and all, deep down i suppose i wish my dad and i had a relationship like that (minus the theology). good for you, bill

thatched roofs
tudor homes
stone covered houses (not flat stone)
hobbit holes
lofts with roof gardens

Don't knock the theology, jane. She really intends to use it to prod Christians to get out into the world. Her bachelor's degree is in social work, and she intends on seeing social ministry done. She's like a smaller, kinder, less cynical, better looking, version of me in a skirt. It is both endearing and irritating, flattering and challenging.

Oh, and to stay on topic, discussing theology with my daughter is one of my favorite things

oh, sorry. i knock theology whenever and wherever i can. in fact, that's one of my favorite things (to keep it all on topic)

oh hey lookit that, prodding christians to get out into the world is another one of my favorite pasttimes.

clean sheets
dinner and a movie with my boy, quietly, at home
rainfall on a tin roof
old friends meeting new ones

my girls. across the world, and here in town.

Seeing Christina's name all over the orchard again.

Oscillating fans.

Sorry Lib, we all have our ups and downs!

I WAS referring to this lovely revolving white thing blowing my curtain out the window, but I accept your apology.

Finally getting a PUR water filtration adapter thing. I've been buying bottled water for years due to incredibly old and funky galvanized piping on the whole property. Oh! So that's two things to be happy about.

All water on the property coming in through new copper pipe and finally getting a PUR after that! No more buying bottled water!! Yee haw!

nimrodcooper's avatar. simply awesome.

i want one. do they bite or poop on the floor? they look mischeivous. at least that one, but nice at the same time and too smart for it's own good.

wonderful

kylie's new avatar = way cute.

Luke's sweetieness.
Phone calls with friends.
Giant jungle gyms (especially when there's no one around to tell you to get down or else!).

The geodesic dome under seige:

do you have to feed them peyote? this could get expensive

Swinging on a swing-set so high today that the chain would do that loop/loose thing it did. Scary as a kid.

Sitting on my patio with some nice tunes (Sigur-Ros), drinking an orange martini, playing Monopoly on the computer. I DO have a life, just was feeling the lay-low tonight.

Progressive democrats (sorry, politics, lol)
Good days in a string of bad days
hope
getting enough sleep.