I got nothin' to say...

I have been without a camera for a few weeks now.  The lens cover will not open when I turn it on.  It's been slowly getting worse ever since I opened it on Christmas morning.  Rick thinks that it's because of all of the dust from this trip...

 Yes, that is dust all over my face.  It was definitely gritty.  Maybe the dust did have SOMETHING to do with it...

So, I had to ship my camera off to California because the repair is covered under warranty.  I am hoping to have it back by next Christmas.

I'm digging into the recent photo archives here...

 I went school shopping with Sierra a few weeks ago.  It's so much easier going shipping with Sierra when I don't have the twins with me.  The twins are really hard to shop with.  Our first stop on the shopping trip was at DI, mostly to drop off a few bags of old clothes that no longer fit so that we would have room for the new school clothes.  We ran inside to find a couple of things I had in mind for projects.  I was trying to be quick so I wasn't looking at everything carefully.  Sierra spotted this little bag and thought we needed it. I think it was a dollar.  It looked like Fiesta ware.  The problem with Fiesta salt and pepper shakers is that they don't say "Fiesta" on the bottom because the little stoppers are in the way.  So, as first I didn't know if we had a treasure or not. I called Summer and had her take a picture with her phone of the Fiesta S & P Shakers at home and text it to me so I could compare the bottoms.  It looked like a perfect match.

I figured it was worth the one dollar gamble.  And it paid off.  Sierra spotted a real treasure.  It is very rare to find Fiesta at DI.  It has only happened to me one other time.  And the best part is that they "appeared" to be unused.  Still, I washed them and sanitized them.  Several times.

And this slightly out of focus picture reminds me of one thing...RUNNING.

Because it was taken just a couple of hours after running the Hobble Creek 1/2 Marathon.

Can you guess which toes are mine and which ones belong to Summer?  shouldn't be too hard.

This reminds me that the Utah Valley Marathon registration is now open.  I am totally doing it again.  But, I will probably wait for a few more months to register.  But, I don't want to wait too long when the registration price goes up or when it sells out.  I will do the 1/2 again.  If Rick's schedule allows, he will do the full marathon.  Now, for the other news...there isn't a 5K...it's a 10K next year.  So, if you're in, let's get training.  And speaking of training...I am verbally committed to run the Snow Canyon 1/2 Marathon NEXT fall.  It takes place in October.  If that plan falls into place, you'll be hearing more about that in the future.

Oh, I found these pics of a recent DI find...We were looking for something completely different and stumbled upon this chair...

Of course, when we found it, it was a light wood color.  Not cute but totally solid.  So, I got it home and checked my Year's Supply of spray paint and decided that the chair totally wanted to be periwinkle.

No good "BEFORE" shots, but Summer did get some good action shots.  Here it is in the house...

Here is Fisher putting the chair to good use when we celebrated Summer's birthday.

I have more to say, but since my audience (amara and audrey) is out of town this week, I'll save some for later.  FYI guys...it's been really quiet this week.