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A bunch of co-workers and I got together for a TGIF yesterday after work — we decided that we’re going to have a TGIF every Friday until we’re out for the summer. Last night it seemed like SUCH a great idea! This morning, I was having a few regrets, LOL :)
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After dropping my kindergartener off late this morning, I didn’t feel like going back home, so I drove around a little bit knowing my camera was on the passenger’s seat. I am always so worried about taking pictures where strangers will wonder what I’m doing, I tried to quickly snap a few of the orange groves before I was discovered. My rushing shows as I didn’t quite catch focus, but it is what it is ;) This photo makes me kind of sad — the whole area of land that this particular orange grove is on is for sale, and it’ll no doubt be turned into more homes or condos or something that isn’t needed (we have so many homes and business buildings vacant right now, there just isn’t a need for MORE of anything). I’ve loved growing up near orange groves — the house I grew up in sat on a cross-section of old orange groves — we even still had the irrigation system running right through our backyard. The scent in my city during this time of year is just amazing :)
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Happy first day of spring!
St. Patrick’s Day
For St. Patrick’s Day, the leprechauns visited us and “Shamrocked” our house, as they do every year. Then we had some friends over and made traditional food like fried chicken, nachos, and fondue (I joke…) The kids outnumbered the adults, so it was way more of a kid party than anything :) But my friend introduced me to snakebites (Guinness poured slowly over cider) and I’m hooked!
Spring Break Camping Trip, Day One
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This vacation, we were supposed to go to the river with my parents for several days, but my brother was in an accident, and my parents wanted to stay close to home (he’s going to be okay – it was just a scary few days…) Despite saying I was DONE with camping for a while, it was an easy alternative to doing nothing, and the girls would have been heart broken if we had just stayed home. So, we took them camping to the closest, warmest, easiest to plan on the fly place and we all had a really good time. Our next camping trip (that is planned ahead of time…) isn’t until June, and after the nice little reminder of how much work it is to take two kids camping, I won’t be scheduling any more trips between now and June :)
And, I was all set to take some star trails photos, but DUH, I forgot to bring my camera battery charger, so I burned through two out of my three batteries in an hour trying to capture a few to stitch together. I am pretty mad at myself as the moon didn’t even come out until 1:30am, it was so dark, and so calm, and such a perfect night to do star trails. I caught ONE passable one before my two batteries died, and I wasn’t about to let the third one go dead too. Fooey! Next time I’ll plan better — although, you can’t exactly CHANGE the battery while you’re in the midst of doing a series of shots like this, so I’m at a loss for what to do next time, too. A battery grip, I guess…
