Vacation photos!

Please enjoy a sampling of photos from our recent vacation to London and Ireland.

Vacation photos

meme

Brien tagged me on this one:

The Rules:

* Link the person(s) who tagged me
* Mention the rules on my blog
* Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of mine
* Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them
* Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged

I think the only exception is that I'm not tagging anyone, because I think it's made the rounds.

1) I love gossip blogs.
2) I hate coming in on the middle of movies or TV shows, I'd rather not watch it than watch part of it.
3) I eat ketchup on beans and peas.
4) I can whistle in stereo.
5) I have an uncanny ability to remember song lyrics
6) I have a tattoo.

Memory Blog stolen from Giftieetcetera

Memory Tag!!

1. Add a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!


In case anyone is counting, I leave for my European tour on Monday!!!!

Drive to work

My drive to and from work takes about 30 minutes. 80% of that drive is through agricultural fields and pastures. This photo is of a milo (sorghum) field near work. Milo is those little round seed in your bags of bird seed. It is also used for cattle feed around here. This time of the year the fields are a checkerboard of orange milo, green corn, and dark green cotton.

What do you seen on your daily commute?

bummer

Terry Pratchett has early onset Alzheimer's. Now I'm bummed :(

(Link goes to article about it)

Song stuck in my head

I've had this stuck in my head all week. From one of my favorite albums ever, Skylarking. This is Dear God by XTC.

Dear god, hope you get the letter and...
I pray you can make it better down here
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that you made in your image
See them starving in the street
'Cause they don't get enough to eat from god
I can't believe in you

Dear god, sorry to disturb you but...
I feel that I should be heard loud and clear
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
And all the people that you made in your image
See them fighting in the street
'Cause they can't make opinions meet about god
I can't believe in you

Did you make disease and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too!

Dear god don't know if you noticed but...
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book
And us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look
And all the people that you made in your image
still believing that junk is true
Well I know it ain't, and so do you
Dear god
I can't believe in
I don't believe

I won't believe in heaven or hell
No saints, no sinners, no devil as well
No pearly gates, no thorny crown
You're always letting us humans down
The wars you bring, the babes you drown
Those lost at sea and never found
And it's the same the whole world 'round
The hurt I see helps to compound
That father, son and holy ghost
Is just somebody's unholy hoax
And if you're up there you'll perceive
That my heart's here upon my sleeve
If there's one thing I don't believe in

It's you

Proof of Goat

For all you goat-doubters..and you know who you are!

Goat