Billy & Lindsay's Wedding!

First the words. Venche went as my date, she looked wonderful. My camera is stupid. It was warm, but not overbearingly so, and even if it was, it was a privilege to be there for Billy & Lindsay. I did tell Mark that next life I was going to be a woman and wear a lot of sun dresses to outdoor summer events. My camera is stupid. The wedding was organized, beautiful, and creative. There were a lot of little touches that involved the bride and groom’s faces, the Billy & Lindsay water bottles, signs directing where to go, the Martini bar menu. My camera is stupid. Dinner went well, it the vans outside were an indication, it was catered by HyVee, they did well. My camera is stupid. The highlight was the dancing (of course), Troy played a big variety of music that you don’t normally here at Jitterbugs events, Venche got to find out I know all the words to at least one slow country song... The Chicken Dance: great... The Electric Slide: throw it in the dumpster, like my camera, it is stupid.

Billy & Lindsay: God Bless your marriage, thanks for allowing me to be a part of it.

Check out this nice looking group!


Brian: Can we just get right to the dancing?
Josie: If I fall, you are SO going down with me.


Billy enjoying his last few minutes of freedom.


Dad: "Is this dress made of real satin?"
Lindsay: "It sure feels like it."
Dad: "It sure cost like it is."


Arg! I be the minister for the First Church of the Pirate Goddess!


Okay, so the East Coast Swing basic in open goes like this...


(I could think of nothing appropriate to caption this with)


Billy! Don't eat the flowers!


Brian: Hurry up, we get to go dance.
Josie: Don't go so fast, you won't get in the picture.


Possible captions:
1. Dang, eating that bar of soap gave me gas.
2. Viv: "Venche, would you call my personality bubbly?"
3. Venche: "Why is my date laying in the grass in his suit?"
4. Too bad my camera is stupid and deleted the first shot of this.


Little Becky: Wait until I get my license, I am going to run you over.


Is this the line for the dessert table?


Lindsay was talking to someone else, I came up behind her put my arm around her pointed the camera at us, and *click* ... that's why I love the bride.


Billy: Now remember, Eric can't have any chocolate.


Hugh: Alright, which one of you goosed me?

Suggestions for improved captions are appreciated!

A Purr-fect Pair

Look it's my babies, Zeke and Sierra, so so so bored with the picture taking process.

Tennis Anyone?

The bottom temperature was the official high at The Lazy Onion Ranch for Wednesday, July 19.

P.S. By the way, I renamed my house to The Lazy Onion Ranch.

A Question

This comes from a conversation with a friend who asked me if there were bugs in the garden of Eden or if they were a consequence of the fall of Adam and Eve.

Answer me this question, what is the first (most important) quality in being human?

1. Being a creation of God or
2. Suffering from the fall of Adam and Eve.

I would argue that it is #1, we are first creations of God. So are bugs. Like it or not, so is being irritated and frustrated.

The true nature and disaster of the Fall is that we have been removed from His immediate presence, this is the penalty for the knowledge that Adam and Eve gained, to be removed from Eden and Him. Although our newfound knowledge causes us to focus on the loss of paradise, the actual loss is that of the physical presence of our Creator.

We are removed from God.

Fortunately He has given us gifts of faith and forgiveness, and also the gift of Himself in Jesus, and we can be set straight with Him, and after a short while of suffering and/or joy in this life, re-enter His presence.

Surgery Update part 000D

What? Crap! Isn’t it a little late for this?

Okay, so, surgery date: April 18. Current date: July 18. Hold on, let me do the math, that’s um, carry the six, multiply by two pi, add Fibonacci’s age, divide by W’s IQ ...oops, that operation is undefined... (20 minutes later) it has been three months.

So I am sitting in my car this afternoon when wham! I get the heebie-jeebies about the surgery! I mean I got the shivers and was just plain wigged out. It’s been three months, I am 98% physically recovered, in fact, since I am not having as many headaches now, I am more like 125% back to normal (run that through the math machine).

I was fine leading up to the surgery, I was fine through the surgery, I didn’t even get grossed out by all of the, um, excess mucus after the surgery ... but now, 91 days later, I, in the words of The Cure, shiver and shake. The whole thing only lasted a couple minutes or so, and then it was gone.

Weird.