The Blackburn Family

I finally have all the trip pictures posted! Click here to see the Grand Tetons album. There are tons of pictures I didn’t post, but they tend to all look the same so I tried to pick the best.

JD is still at the vet. He did well during the surgery, but they had some issues when they tried to flush his system so he was under a bit longer than expected. I should be able to pick him up tomorrow after work. I went to visit him on Friday after work and he looked so pathetic. He was pretty doped up and is minus a lot of fur. I will get some pictures of the little patient when he gets home. He is still in a lot of pain and I figure he will be for awhile. When he had his teeth pulled he hid under the bed for several days. I am sure he won’t be too happy with us.

So my newest hobby is gardening. I have several books (thanks library!) and I seem to get more confused the more I read. Although I did go to Home Depot today to check out their plants and I actually recognized most of them! So maybe I am learning something. My newest problem is that I keep buying plants on sale and I don’t know where to put them. Or I plant them and then decided two weeks later to move them. The more I think about it and try to plan my beds the more confused I get about what to plant and where to put it all. I think I have too many hobbies…. I can’t really focus on any of them. There isn’t enough time! My latest hobbies include photography, gardening, yoga, jigsaw puzzles, the wii, the rabbit meetup, teaching/volunteering at the SPCA and investing. If only I was rich and didn’t have to work. I would have so much more time for my fun hobbies. There are several other hobbies that I used to do that I want to do again like playing the piano and scrapbooking (but I want to do them online instead of cutting out all the paper!). Not to mention my normal daily chores like cleaning, going to the grocery store, cooking dinner, making lunch and taking care of all the pets. I need more time! My goal is to focus on gardening before it gets really cold and then once it gets really cold I can do some of the indoor hobbies.

Okay, I decided to just sit down and get these photos uploaded. They are huge photos so it takes hours just to upload them to flickr plus the time I have to sort through them and adjust the ones that are really bad…. I will work on Grand Teton this weekend and then they will all be posted. Now I need to print our Itlay pictures from last year! Then maybe I can get around to printing some of this trip. Click here to see the Yellowstone album. Also, check out the other albums from our trip out west here. I added some to the Wyoming folder since my last post.

Sorry it is taking awhile to get the pictures posted. My computer was broken a few days last week and it takes so long to load the pictures! I think I have all the South Dakota pictures on flickr. The Wyoming pictures may take a bit longer because there are more of them. Anyway, for those that are interested or really bored I have the trip journal posted. Please see the link the sidebar to the right of this post or click here. I will put links below for our rafting pictures and my flickr album.

Flickr album

Rafting pictures - Date 9/10/08, Rafting company Dave Hansen, 11:30 Deuce