Our Christmas Day

We had a great Christmas! Lots of gifts and good food and happy conversation.

It has been a busy morning unwrapping and eating presents (a biscuit and a rawhide bone) then going for a walk, so Tyler has a nap.

After being told we were expecting guests, Andy parks himself in front of the window to wait for them to arrive.

I just wanted to say...

Being a teenager is tiring.

Studying each and every function is more fun than actually taking pictures.

I asked for expressions not quite so grim. This is what I got.

Andy misbehaves and gets sent to the penalty box.

Still doing stuff with the camera but not taking pictures

Ok, I'll take a picture. Here's my dessert in Macro Mode. Yum, yum!

Roewan's Other Blog

Just in case you're wondering where I've been lately and you haven't noticed that I have another blog, click here.

Trip to Europe - A Dutch Party (II)

And here are the rest of the party pictures. My sister exercised her formidible people-herding skills and we ended up with some great family group snapshots.

If anyone (that is, anyone in the family) wants higher resolution versions of these images to make prints then contact me.

Trip to Europe - A Dutch Party

Last August while we were in Europe, one of my aunts hosted a fabulous party. She and her husband are very fortunate to have a home with a large back garden in a private natural setting. In The Netherlands, a small densely populated country, few have the luxury of such space.

It was perfect for an outdoor family party.

A Beautiful House and Garden

The party is in the back.

Space and Privacy

Gather Around

Begin with arrivals and introductions

Whose husband is this?

Then Cakes and Coffee

Aunts with sweets

Soon it's time for drinks.

I hope you have lots!

That glass is mine!

Proost!

And the party really gets rolling...





















Mass Photography

After more food and photography and as the party winds down, we go for a walk.

Just down the lane, some curious cows

A perfect end to a perfect day

B5 - Five Years

My latest email from the NW-B5 Mailing List came with a link to a quick 2:27 video covering all five years of Babylon 5 and set to music with some very funny lyrics by Tom Smith. Nonsensical to anyone but true fans, of course.

On Dec 1, JMS wrote that production (filming was done locally at Vancouver Film Studios) for the first DVD of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales finished principal photography. DVD release of Voices In The Dark is expected in 2007. Early 2007, I hope!

Some of JMS' own photos and missives from the production are currently posted here.

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"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things." -- Elric, The Geometry of Shadows

From Knitting Patterns to Surge Arrestors

My small and sensible eBay business just lurched out of its quiet little niche by agreeing to sell amateur radio gear alongside the knitting and sewing patterns.

I wonder what my current craft pattern customers will think when they see coaxial cables, amphenol connectors, gas capsules, lightning protectors and cold shrink kits?

The Big Guy needs to free up space so that he can store the new amateur radio gear he's buying. The obvious way to do this (other than to move into a new house that happens to have a warehouse in the backyard) is to sell some of the current gear that is clogging up the closets and the crawl space under our house.

What can I say? Don't buy more stuff? Silly me.

Come and see order being created out of chaos at The M31 Emporium's newly opened Amateur and Ham Radio department.