Paige played at the water's edge for a few minutes... she was watching a family down stream throwing rocks into the water.

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." -Yogie Berra

This is from a trip to Jacobsburg State Park up the road a piece from us. The river pictured is the Bushkill.

This is Snaggle Tooth, the swine. He was easily 300 lbs and had this cute little tooth heading west in his mouth.

This was our visit to Apple Blossom Village in Mt Bethel, PA... Paige and the little goat had quite a fascination with each other.

Paige talking to Gramma Kaine on Daddy's Treo. She was telling her all sorts of facts: "Kaitin's in the chair, I got a pink shirt, Gramma, Gramma, Gramma."

Ahhhhhhhh. Little BOOM!

Paige saying "Hi, little Raaaaaay!"

This is cool: Find auctions expiring in a few minutes!

If you have ever heard of Ebay, chances are that you know the best way to find a bargain is the wait until the last minute and place a bid on your favorite item.

This hot little website, called LastMinuteAuction, finds Ebay auctions ending in 59 minutes or less, for a buck or less.

It is a very well done affiliate website, and allows you to search for all types of categories.

I found a Sylvania Radio TV Vacuum Tube for under a dollar. If you're nice to me, I'll sell it to you for $10.00.

Dig to China? Or Australia....

Ever wonder what would *really* happen if you started to dig in your back yard and never stopped? I have.

While I was in real estate school, I learned an interesting thing: When you own land in the US, you actually own the earth below the land to the center of the earth and the air directly above the land to infinity. I digress.

So back to digging, if you take a look at this link, you can navigate the google map to your house and find out where you would end up if you dug all the way out the other side!

Post your responses below, diggers!

Auntie Beth makes her debut apperance on the blog, Kaitlyn's chunky little thighs look like the Michelin Man's, and Becky is tickling Kaitey to get a smile out of her.

It was a big week in Kaitlyn's life... she rolled over all on her own! She is far ahead of Paige in her motor skills. Probably due to being less chunky! :0)

What's better then PB&J? I met a customer at a diner this week and ordered an english muffin with PB&J, and they didn't have peanut butter. What?

Let me ask you a question

So, lets say you are in another country. You have used their bathroom/washroom/loo/crapper and completed a thorough handwashing.

With me so far?

So, you walk over to this contraption on the wall (photo above). There is a label on it. Would you know what to do with it?

Remember, you are in a foreign country - and you don't speak the language or understand their alphabet at all. HELLO? It's a hand dryer, if you didn't know that - hold your breath until you pass out. Start...... NOW.

So, here is the question: Why the hell are there instructions on EVERY SINGLE HAND DRYER I HAVE EVER SEEN. EVER?

Lets draw a ludacris comparison to help the point gel. Why aren't there directions on a doorknob?

1. Extend Hand
2. Grasp Handle Tightly
3. Turn knob left or right
4. Pull/Push door open

Save a nickel - eliminate the useless directions. Thoughts?

I hate things

A few things I hate. Today is a crappy day, and we should all hate things because it make us feel better.

1. People who reply to all in emails. Why? Are you talking to the 7,550 other people who got the message about the bathroom being closed for cleaning?

2. People who forward emails (especially from AOL) with, like, a bazillion other email addresses at the top. It takes a day to scroll down to see the one paragraph message.

3. Bumper stickers. All of them. Why does this make you happy, people? Get a blog or something.

4. The prices of food at the movies. Look at this. They should be wearing masks because they are robbers!

5. When you buy a new toy/gadget/thingamabop and bring it home, all fired up - and it doesn't work right. I just installed a 40 gigabyte external hard drive on my desktop to backup my files, and it doesn't recognize it!! AKJAKJH(*)*(&*(&&&*^!^!^AHDSFJ!!!! Of course, Western Digital is closed today. Why would they be open when you NEED them?

6. Gas prices. Who the hell is setting these prices? Why do I pay $34.00 to fill my rice burner? I want to talk to someone, but they wouldn't speak English anyway.

7. People who live in this country, and they don't speak English. GET OUT. I know this is the melting pot of the world - I DON'T CARE. Read a book, watch the TV learn the language- if you are in business and you want MY MONEY: Speak English and be just a little bit happy when I order my coffee or buy gas from you.

8. Katrina, she is such a bitch. Doesn't she have anything better to do? Good luck to everyone and Goodspeed.

Holy low gas!

Why do you think I do this stuff? I felt like Jeremy Mayfield at Michigan... If you look closely at the pic, you can see that I am still in "D4" while talking the shot with my Treo 600 camera.

I was on the NJ Turnpike and the next rest stop was 12 miles away. Off went the AC and I started talking to the car: "You can do it little girl, I know you can. You are an Accord!"

I made it with fumes left, but not before being 100% certain I was going to be out of gas on the turnpike, stranded.

OK, stress over, car filled. Move on.

Is this a guy thing?

NEW! Google Talk

Anyone who knows me is aware that I am pretty obsessed with Google. I simply think that Google is one awesome company, no nonsense, with great products.

A few examples of my obsession:

Google Satellite
Google Blog
Google Maps With a UFO
Gmail
Google "Your Name"
Googlewhacking


Back to Google Talk, Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free - –anytime, anywhere in the world.

What's better that free? (besides this blog)

This kid is a genius!

Proof positive that my readership grows every single day. I love my blog.

New Parents

Look at the proud new parents! It's amazing to think that they created a person... little Boom has been born unto the world!

I would like to analize this shot with you for a moment:

-Notice Anastasia, she's not looking at the camera, where the hell is she looking? Is there more then one photographer? Can't they wait a minute until this one is taken?

-Notice Ray, he has never been more tired in his entire life. As a matter of fact, he is so sleepy, he is holding on to his wife's arm just to stay upright. What else could he be doing with his hand? Pushing on her elbow to support little Ray?

-Notice little Ray, they must have taken a multitude of pictures becuase he has sloooowly slipped backwords into Anastasia's arms and if this session isn't over soon - he's going to do a 180! On second thought - good job Ray holding her arm.

I guess you can get here from there. Hmm

As a follow up to this post about how folks got this blog, I decided to be a little detective and find out where they were when they found me.

Did that make any sense? Good.

If you click here, you will be taken to a map of the world. It has a "thumb tack" at each location in the world where my visitors have come from. I have a visitor from ROTTENBURG, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG - which is in Germany - not far from the border of Switzerland and France.

But my favorite you ask? So far it has to be the person from Lewiston, Idaho - which, incidentally, is a stone's throw across the river from where Dad Storholt grew up.

What is that you call it? Serendipitous.