Rambling Mad

Lambs to the Slaughter 08-2011

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This is why Adrian and I should not really hang out without adult supervision.

Adrian, Mads & Jessica: Pacific Creek to Deadmans Bar

2011-09-01T12:54:00.000-06:00

Adrian & Mads: Rockefeller Preserve

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Adrian & Mads: Pacific Creek to Deadmans Bar

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Adrian, Mads & Katrina: Dam to Pacific Creek

2011-09-01T10:00:00.000-06:00

Painted Desert, Petrified Forest NP

2011-02-17T19:38:00.000-07:00

Drive out from GC Park

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Canyon cloudy

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Canyon on partly cloudy day

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Walking into canyon, 2011

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Heading toward sunset, Grand Canyon

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Mom and Mads, GC 2011

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Cayon sunny day, 2011

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Drive Back From Kayaking - Sunset 2

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Drive Back from Kayaking - Sunset

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Drive back from Kayak , 3

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Drive Back from Kayaking, 2

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Drive back from kayaking 2010

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Moose 3, 2010

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Moose 2, 2010

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Moose 2010

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Moose Watching w/ Allie 2010

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Drive to Kayaking 2010

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Max and Maria's Wedding

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Summer 2010

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Sunset over the Tetons after a day of kayaking with Allie.

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Can you imagine looking out your kitchen window to this? That glass looks pretty insubstatial about now.

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How funny? Just about died.

2006-09-08T09:06:00.000-06:00

Pics of the kids

2006-02-22T19:12:00.000-07:00

Here we have Scarf! and Whirrly enjoying some sun time on their own. I think this was something like 3 days after I brought Whirrly Girl home. Bad match, I guess.

But seriously, the two girls just acted like they'd been wondering where the other was. They immediately started playing hide and seek and shared the food bowl - no problem. Of course, Whirrly ran right up to Bun when he was eating and poked her nose into his bowl so maybe it's more a reflection on her determination (or stupidity).

Even Bun is forced to submit to Whirrly's demands to share the sweet spot. He's doing his best to ignore her.
"Just keep your eyes shut. If you don't look into it's eyes, you won't provoke it."

Whirrly continues her endless bathing. Got her home from the shelter only to discover a few days later that she had a kitty contagious skin issue. Stupid shelter.

She's wondering why you'd even be looking at her. Why are you not petting her sweet sweet belly? Fool!

2006-02-07T11:01:00.000-07:00

ys1 - Favorite!

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ys 4 - Drive in to Yellowstone through the Teton park.

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ys 3

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This did not happen to us but I liked the shot. Can you see the guy standing up in that safari hatch on the top of the coach? Not sure because of the super high crap factor.

2006-02-07T10:53:00.000-07:00

This is what a snowcoach looks like. I somehow did not manage to take an actual photo of one and had to look online. Sorry for the crap factor.

2006-02-07T10:51:00.000-07:00

ys6 - Snowcoach ride into the park. You can see that it's that flat blue/gray light that's so hard to downhill ski in because you can never really spot the terrain. Same deal with the coach - we would end up flying over the moguls created by the snowmobiles. Was more like a boat ride.

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ys 5 - Ms. Meg and the fun dad from the mentionitis family.

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ys 1 - Ms. Meg on the super delicious path to the river. The snowcoach drivers stopped every day and hand shoveled the path clear. Not a small job when you consider that this was basically the beginning of the snow season and the path is already almost waist deep.

2006-02-07T10:43:00.000-07:00

ys 2 - A stop on the Snowcoach ride in. To the left is a steaming waterfall where the thermals heat the stream but this is just pure frosty pretty.

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ys 3 - Meg's requested glamour shot. It looked like a Dr.Suess tree at the time.

2006-02-07T10:37:00.000-07:00

ys 6 - This was a stop on the Snowcoach ride in. The snow banks are seriously about 5 feet high on the edges of the river. No big animals here as they'd have to wade through some serious snow so there's no tracks - only perfectly as it fell snow.

2006-02-07T10:35:00.001-07:00

ys5

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ys 4 - The steaming waterfall. Is somewhat hard to see here but I only had one place to shoot from as every other spot was under 4 feet of snow.

2006-02-07T10:32:00.000-07:00

ys 7 - Super frosty cold snow and then a plume of dang hot air. Wyoming is weird.

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ys 8 - Meg on the x-country ski "boardwalk."

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ys10

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ys11

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ys9

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ys12

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YS13

Behold! The glory that was Christmas Past.

2005-12-09T10:53:00.000-07:00

It occurred to me that Fire Blanket has never seen my pink foil Chrismas Tree. This will not do.

This was last year's tree when I lived in Chicago. Don't mind my tears now as I cry that the magnificent tree is still in Chicago while I am now here in Wyoming. Stupid storage!

2005-12-09T10:52:00.000-07:00

Is perfect! Like Dr. Seuss made it special for me.

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A wee blurry but you can see it "in situ."

There must be some TOR-ROS in the AT-MOS-PHERE!

2005-12-08T09:10:00.000-07:00

The Derivation of "R-Dawg"

2005-12-07T11:18:00.000-07:00

From Television Without Pity's review of The Amazing Race when two male contestants got into a fight. Chip and Kim are one couple, Brandon and Nicole are another.

THE DRA-MA:
Chip and Kim and Brandon and Nicole approach another island. Chip says to Kim that he's been considering acting like they didn't get it, in order to try to fool Nicole and Brandon. "He needs to get off the boat and look for himself," Kim says, quite correctly. "If this is the flag," Chip tells us, "we may act like it's wrong." "That's how you play the game," Kim puts in. The Chip/Kim boat pulls ashore, and Chip hops out. He runs up to the flag and pulls out the clue. "Should I get out?" Brandon asks. Nicole tells him not to. Chip pulls out the clue, which starts with the word, "Congratulations!" Chip looks around. "Shucks!" he says loudly. Yeah. He said, "Shucks." Shocked at his display of vulgarity, Nicole asks whether it's the right one, and Chip turns around. "No," he tells her. Nicole and Brandon start to send their boat to the last of the three islands. But then Brandon says, "I hope he's not just saying that, Nikki." "Chip! Is that it?" Brandon hollers, making Chip tell them one more time. "No!" Chip yells back. And then Kim quietly asks him, "Did you read it? What did it say?" And Chip mutters back, "Congratulations." Hee hee. Phil explains that the clue that Chip just recovered tells the teams to work along the shoreline of the island until they find another clue box. There, they will put on snorkel gear and search the bottom of the water for one of four big pretend clams that have clues in them. Then you dive and retrieve your clue.
As Chip and Kim putter along the shoreline, Kim voices over that they're not going to tell Brandon and Nicole that it was the right flag, because -- you guessed it -- "it's a game." And also because they're not Brandon and Nicole's field trip chaperones, and it's not really their job to tell them where to go. Brandon asks Nicole whether she's sure they should just take Chip's word for it. She chews her lip thoughtfully. "Chip!" Brandon calls out again, but Chip and Kim are already leaving. Brandon smells a rat. "Hey, I'm getting off," he says (snerk), and he jumps off the boat and swims to shore. When he pulls the clue and gets back to the boat, they note that it does indeed say "Congratulations," and that it tells them to look along the shore for a clue, which they do. "Chip and Kim flat-out lied to our faces," Nicole says in some disbelief, apparently thinking they were entitled to sponge off other teams while hanging back in their own boat. Unbelievable, really. "That makes me mad," Brandon says. And...whatever.

THE RESOLUTION:
As Brandon drops down the rope, he passes Chip. "Hi, B-Dawg," Chip says as he rests on the rope. "Keep going, Chipper," Brandon says. And with that, Chip and Brandon have made up. Exhibit A in Why Being Friends With Guys Has Its Advantages. It has its disadvantages when it comes to Talking About Your Feelings Without Simultaneously Playing Nintendo Or Comparing Everything To Something From A Comic Book, but when it comes to ending fights? It's a breeze.

R and I are actually men so this works for us. Natch.
Plus, I need to protect the identities of the participants.

2005-12-07T10:41:00.000-07:00

Animal Fronts 29

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Animal fronts

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Mammoth Hot Springs 1

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Wildfire!!!

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WF2 bigger

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Wildfire

Photos

2005-12-01T19:16:00.000-07:00

New photos being posted tomorrow (12/2/05). I toyed with the idea of paying for my own web site so that I could post the pics as I might please but this seemed a bit over the top.

SO - does anyone have an opinion about picture posting? I had aspired to posting them as "galleries" where you'd click on the gallery and open up the set as a slide-show. Instead of how it is now where they all just show up individually and you have to click on them one at a time. After much searching I found a few programs that would do this but only if I had my own web site.

Is Everyone OK suffering on in the current fashion? Or would it be worth it for me to throw down the cash to make my slide show dreams come true?

Opinions, please.

Man of the Year? WTF?

2005-11-23T09:14:00.000-07:00

Speaking of crying, you'll likely be shedding a few tears -- of laughter anyway -- after reading K. Fed's interview with GQ, which just dubbed him one of its Men of the Year.

The magazine quizzes the so-called "American Husband: Trophy Edition" on his domestic duties, including whether there's a particular "household task" at which he excels.
Offers Kevin, "Pressing the TV buttons. Yeah, dude. That's like the No. 1 thing."

Does he ever surprise his meal-ticket missus with flowers? "Oh yeah," says the romance-minded Federline. "I'll call up the [bleeping] florist before I get a hotel room for us and have them stock it with flowers and a card saying something. You've got to keep it interesting, man."

In between dialing the "[bleeping] florist" and penning love notes that say "something," Kevin is also happy to kowtow to his wife: "Oh yeah, I'll hold her purse. It's one of those things, you know? I've bought the Tampax, the baby diapers, I've been through all of that already."

And that easygoing feeling extends to their home life, with Federline, who appears in the mag wearing denim he-capris, a standard issue white tank top, socks with sandals and an apron, revealing how he sometimes fails to secure the bathroom door: "The comfort level around here? It's family, man. It's like what you do with your brother or your sister or, you know, your moms or pops. I mean, you never cared when you were a kid."

As for why he was selected as Man of the Year, Britney's less flush half is convinced it's "because I'm Daddy, dude. I'm Daddy. [Bleep], that's pretty much it."

Sigh.
from MSN.