Hibernation

Life has been pretty great up here in the northwest. Work has been busy and rewarding every day, the weekends have been filled with knitting projects and I've put a lot of treadmill miles on the awesome running shoes I got for Christmas. And, there's always a furry creature around to snuggle up with.

But, as far as the blog goes, it's in hibernation. I'm not super motivated to go outside on adventures when the morning air temperature is negative twenty-two.

The blog will probably be back in the spring, hopefully filled with new adventures.

But, in the meantime, here's a little treat for you courtesy of Updraft, which brought this little Lewis Black gem to my attention:

WARNING: This comedy is most definitely not Minnesota Nice, not appropriate for children or those sensitive to swearing.

Stay warm people!

Happy Holidays from Sogn and Vasa

The holidays means photographs for the annual holiday card! I glanced at an article a few days ago about the stress of trying to create a perfect holiday card and I could kinda of understand the stress. I definitely believe we work too hard to present perfect images of our lives to the outside (yes - I realize the irony of this statement coming from a blog writer who uses pseudonyms and cuts herself out of all photographs), but as we attempted to wrangle the pack and smile at the camera I could appreciate the stress of wrangling young children into a perfect holiday picture.

So, here are the puppy out-takes (the people out-takes are so terrible they are not suitable for the blog):

 poor hunting dogs, their noses are working overtime

this was just distraction 

Vasa tends to look like a crazy

p.s. photos taken by Red and Swan who made the drive to visit us a few weekends ago! YAY FOR FRIENDS!