I love shopping on Etsy

I sell my greeting cards on a site called Etsy (http://www.etsy.com/)

I also buy my fair share of stuff there too! Check this out! It is from an artisan in Belgium named "TwoTreesBelgium" (http://twotreesbelgium.etsy.com/). Go check out her work.

I can't wait to get this . . it is TOO hilarious!

I hate when someone leaves the lid up . .

You never know what you'll find . . . .

Uh Oh . . .

Suppose they taste bad?

Best Friends . . .

My daughter Tori (on the right) and her friend Felicia (left) have been best friends since first grade. It is such a nice thing knowing that they will always be the best of friends.

Spent the day at Lake Keystone with good friends Walter & Andi and Mitch & Beenie . . . always a great time. Too bad the sun eventually has to set and we have to go home.

Have you seen my turtle?

Dude, you lost your turtle at the lake . . .where do you think it is?

Those overalls are handy for a lot of things!

Bib overalls are the BEST garden tool! They have a great harvest pouch on the front!

Yummy! I can eat these all day long . . . almost better than jelly beans (I said almost . . . I haven't gone completely insane)

The Jello shots were brutal Beenie

Beenie critiques her Jello shot!

Joni made em . . . oooo baby . . . . someone said they would grow hair in places you never had it before!! (I should have been afraid at that point)

Andi's Big 50

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDI! . . and Barb . . and Happy 31st Anniversary to Walter AND Andi . . . it was an EVERYTHING PARTY! . . .aren't those the best kind?

The cake LOOKED great . . . on everyone . . . no idea HOW it tasted!! (too many Jello shots by that time)

Pete wanted a pool . . .

Joni said she wanted Boobies, Pete said . . "we could have a pool for that" . . . (you should see their great pool!)

The Big Ass and the Sweet Bitch

We brought wine to the party . . . Andi said (and this is a quote) . . . "the Sweet Bitch is for me . . the Big Ass is for Walter" ROFL

Kitty's place - Downtown Denver

Dear Kitty (she's my BFF in northern, California)

Why didn't you tell me you had a store named after you in downtown Denver? (and that it sells adult videos and other "recreational" devices . . . you'd think after all these years . . . you would confide EVERYTHING to me!!!

Downtown Deer

We were driving through downtown Craig, Colorado (not a small town) and had to stop for a Mama and her babies strolling through, we followed them down an alley to take their picture and they ran into someone's back yard (so that's what has been eating the flowers!)

Sorry for the crappy pic . . it was almost dark

Sunset at the Colorado border

Great sunset on the Colorado/Utah border

Stopping for critters in the road

Deer in the road, just out of Dinosaur, Utah . . . they just stood in the middle of the highway until we honked at them . . . I guess cars don't scare them

So, we were thinking of buying this great bed and breakfast

It has potential . . . . (and a great view)

Surely there is an explantion for this

Couldn't find a reasonable explanation for a giant green dinosaur, wearing a hat, eating a watermelon next to a grill of a giant burger, a large weiner and large vegetables . . . ??? This is one of those WTH moments.

Vernal, Utah

We think a Petunia salesman made the town one hell of a deal . . . there were pink petunias everywhere . . it was so pretty. Apparantly every year, the town of Vernal, Utah plants petunias EVERYWHERE . . it is like a pink & purple petunia explosion. The pictures don't begin to show the beauty of them all. (who gets to water all of these??)

The middle of nowhere . . .

There is a whole lot of NOTHING when driving through the Bonneville Salt Flats before you get to Salt Lake City. I wish I would have stopped to take pictures of the rock "graffiti" on the sides of the road. People have stopped and spelled things with rocks that range from hearts, I love you, their initials to giant peace signs (and a huge penis made with rocks) . . it was VERY interesting.

It would suck to break down out here!!!

The Martin Hotel - Winnemucca, Nevada

Growing up in Idaho and living for a time in Northern Nevada and Bakersfield, CA gives you a DEEP appreciation for Basque food . . . it is truly a dining experience that everyone should try.

We were saddened to hear that a favorite haunt in Winnemucca, the Winnemucca Hotel is no longer serving Basque food . . but our second favorite the Martin Hotel in operation since 1898 is still serving up the same great family style food (and PLENTY of it).

Good Basque food is always served family style, meaning you sit at the same table with total strangers and pass the bowls around the table. We sat with a great group of folks from Oregon, several of whom were experiencing Basque dining for the first time.

First course is bread and soup, since it was Friday night, a wonderful thick clam chowder was served. The next course was hot corn & peppers, hominy salad and beans, and then a green salad with the house dressing and a HUGE bowl of garlic mashed red potatoes. Next was the tongue (yep . . cooked cows tongue!) I prefer the pickled tongue as served in California, this was in a gravy like a beef stew, still good . . but not as good as the pickled. Main course last . . I had the prime rib, Jim had the lamb chops . . . all served with copious amounts of red wine and laughter.

Mmmm Mmmm Mmmmm . . if you go away hungry . . you are doing something WRONG!