Orange and Other Things

I follow a blog called "Under the Sycamore" - it's an awesome blog. Her sister also has a blog called "Recipe for Crazy." She has CrazyJoy challenge words. I participated this weekend. The CrazyJoy word was Orange. When I decided to take the challenge I thought I'd never find anything orange, then I kind of forgot about it. Saturday evening I went to my Cousin's son's wedding and there on the table were ORANGE M&Ms in cute little heart boxes! My heart skipped a beat and when I had the chance I took the challenge...CrazyJoy=Orange.

CrazyJoy=Orange

The look of CrazyJoy

I Like to Camp

I like camping. I always have. I particularly like camping at Lake Lahontan. I like to listen to the cottonwoods rustling in the breeze and the waves lapping at the beach. It's an interesting lake.

I found this description on Wikipedia, "Lake Lahontan was a large endorheic Pleistocene lake of modern northwestern Nevada that extended into northeastern California and southern Oregon. The area of the former lake is a large portion of the Great Basin that borders the Sacramento River watershed to the west."

Now it's a reservoir. It's brown. There's a Facebook dedicated to it "Keep Lahontan Brown." I think that is hilarious...keep lahontan brown...funny.

Some of my best childhood memories are from when my family camped there. When I pass, I want my ashes spread there.

I think the Corgis think it's special too.

Ready for Bed

'67 Aristocrat Lo-Liner

Desert Storm

Makeshift Bug Keeper Outer

Joe the SUPing Corgi

Time Flies...

When you have a child everyone tells you how fast time flies. It always made me mad when someone would tell me that. I was a young Mom (21) and either I felt like they were taking away time I hadn't even had yet or I was rebelling against "older" people telling me yet another thing I didn't want to hear. That said...time flies.

A tree goes from Fall, to Winter, to Spring to Summer in one year and that one year flies.

A puppy that was once my baby Corgi is now my adult Corgi and that five years flies.

A girl that was once my baby daughter is now my adult daughter and that 18 years flies.

Fall Brilliance

Winter Bare

Spring Life

Summer Glory

Baby Jack

Jack

Baby Pheenix

Pheenix

I'm stuck...

I haven't blogged in a L-O-N-G time. There are many reasons for this, some of which I don't want to re-live EVER again. Some of which is just summer. Some of which is not feeling inspired.

Although this blog is about the Corgis and their cuteness and crazy antics and how they fill up my life, I think maybe this subject may not be enough. I want to blog, and I want to share my Corgis but I want to share other snapshots of my life too. Why? I'm certainly not the most exciting person in the blogosphere but I like to write and I like to share, its...therapeutic.

My daughter turned me on to an app called "Instagram." She got her iPhone two or three months after I bought mine and she (of course) already knows more about it and all the fabulous apps out there than I. I have to say iHeart "Instagram!" I'm not sure if it's (a) the app's ability to change your pictures to different exposures, or (b) if I just feel more inspired to take photos I think might look cool, whatever it is I just think my pics are a lot more fun with this app! See what you think...

Camp Lantern

Lake Lahontan at Dawn

Lake Front Property

Sunrise

Golden Jack

Summer Fire

Lap Pool

Corgis, Rocks and Flowers

The weather has recently turned quite beautiful. I so love walking the dogs on these warm mornings, AND it doesn't take me 10 minutes to get dressed, no long pants, no thermals, no gloves, earmuffs or hats...nope...shorts, top, shoes, ahhhh summer is finally here!

Handsome Jack

Joe Loves This Rock Pile - Imagine the Critters in There

Joe Goes Where No Corgi Should and Brings Back Weed

Orange Spring Flowers

A Pretty Weed

Corgi Heat & Diamonds

We had an epic Memorial Weekend, epic cruddy weather that is. We have what we call the Memorial Weekend Curse. It is never ever really very nice on Memorial Weekend, many times Monday eeks out a warmer day, but not this year. It was cold (freezing) and it snowed (a lot). We have spent our last few Memorial Weekends in Virginia City at the Battle Born Showdown in our vintage trailer (without heat). This is the first year that I regretted it. I nearly froze to death and the Corgi's body heat was my only chance at survival, much to Joe's dismay. He growled and groaned. I didn't care, he could protest all he wanted I needed just a little warmth! But alas, our weekend manage to end on a high note...our beautiful daughter, Pheenix, was asked her hand in marriage. We are very happy for her happiness...

Joe Cuddled in the Covers

Trailer in the Snow

Great Great Grandmother's Diamonds in Grandmother's Wedding Set

Trip Without Corgis

I miss my Corgis when I travel and have to leave them at home. I do like having the bed all to myself, but there is something to waking up with their bodies pressed against each side of mine. That said, I believe they would not have been quite as impressed with the Hoover Dam as I was.

The architecture is simply brilliant

The newly completed and opened Pat Tillman Bridge

Water Line

Dam Beautiful

Rock Work with Water Background