GO DUCKS!
flojo
Thursday, December 30, 2010
11 More Days!!!
And we'll be sitting in the 14th row of section 105, the field will be slid into the stadium in front of us and the Ducks will bring the State of Oregon to the #1 game in the Nation!
GO DUCKS!
flojo
GO DUCKS!
flojo
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Numbers
I had an appointment with my Dr. in Portland this month. Things are going well and he said that I'll be on an 'every 6 months' appointment schedule until I'm 5 years out. After my appointment we stopped by the Bone Marrow Transplant floor to say hello. We brought them a Starbucks coffee card for the Holidays...
August numbers:
White Cells 5200 (4000-11000)
Red Cells 3.78 (3.9 - 5.2)
Neutrophils 2.78 (1.9 - 8.0)
Platelets 144 (130 - 400)
December numbers:
White Blood Cells 5000 (4000 - 11000)
Red Blood Cells 3.53 (3.9 - 5.2)
Neutrophils 2.4 (1.9 - 8.0)
Platelets 124 (130 -400)
Happy New Year everyone!
flojo
August numbers:
White Cells 5200 (4000-11000)
Red Cells 3.78 (3.9 - 5.2)
Neutrophils 2.78 (1.9 - 8.0)
Platelets 144 (130 - 400)
December numbers:
White Blood Cells 5000 (4000 - 11000)
Red Blood Cells 3.53 (3.9 - 5.2)
Neutrophils 2.4 (1.9 - 8.0)
Platelets 124 (130 -400)
Happy New Year everyone!
flojo
Friday, December 24, 2010
Merry Christmas Eve!
Merry Christmas Eve today everyone...
I planted two Amaryllis bulbs on November 21st. Today one of them bloomed. The name of it is "Evergreen." I love green colored flowers, the first three photos are of my Amaryllis and below that is a Zinnia I grew this Summer called Green Envy....
"Green Envy" Zinnias
This has to be an anomaly, it's two headed.
This Amaryllis is called "Neon" and it may open up on Christmas Day! If not later today....
These are flowers and a small Christmas tree placed at Casey's memorial park. Many of us are thinking of you Casey!
*****
The 11th arson fire occurred Thursday morning, so Larry is working his "day off" today, along with others at AFD. So that opened some time up for me to write to all of you!
The following are some random photos I've taken in the last 2 months that I'd just like to share.
Most of you probably heard that Aumsville, Oregon had a tornado about a week ago. I took this photo, in the evening, on the day of the tornado. It's looking West, it was a crazy weather day I tell ya.
We had a light dusting of snow in November, so I was trying to take a photo of it falling out in front of our house because you could see it against the sun that was shining! So as Engine 12 drove by I shot a photo of it too. Brian saw me and waved as they flew by!! I was a little embarrassed thinking that they thought I was just taking a photo of the Fire Truck flying by my house... :-)
While in my car downtown one day when it was sunny, I took this photo through my sunroof... Freshly painted historic building, so beautiful against that blue sky.
OK, it's a should I/I shouldn't post type of photo.... but I guess I just want to give you something to laugh at, at my own expense... hahahha I caught sight of my profile one morning while working at the computer! It started off as a "bad hair" day for sure!
I've been eyeballing this metal finial at Emma's Downtown for at least 6 months! I finally decided to bring it home when my brother told me that it would take him 3 days of shop time to make this piece and that just shop time would cost $1500.00! That made the little over $100 price tag a lot more palatable to me... :-)
While waiting around Walgreens the other day.....
When I took this photo yesterday after receiving a new phone book delivered to the house, I thought of the movie "The Jerk" when Steve Martin's character gets so excited when he sees his name in the phonebook! He yells "I'm somebody!!"
My Will is certainly no jerk, and he probably doesn't remember that movie so I didn't reference it when I sent him the photo in an email! I told him how proud of him I am..... (he's a licensed Acupuncturist).
At the Duck games this year I sat next to Jack Crabtree. He was the quarterback of the Ducks back in 1958! They weren't the Ducks then, they were the "Webfoots."
Quoted from Wikipedia: "The 1958 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1958. In the game, the 44th Rose Bowl, the Ohio State Buckeyes defeated the Oregon Ducks by a score of 10-7. Jack Crabtree, quarterback of the losing Ducks, was named the Rose Bowl Player of the Game, one of only two players in Rose Bowl history from a losing team who won the award outright."
I thought it was cool that he had a monogrammed blanket. He said he got it in 1958! That's 52 years old! hahhaha
Here's my best buddy Trent, he built and maintains my Studio Meringue website. He came over last week to do some training with me on it. We worked together at Fusion Marketing and Design... Oh, and he (and Audrey) were the ones that started this blog for me back in 2007!!
And lastly, some photos from our weekend in the snow with our friends Frank, Donna and Rob, at their cabin in Crescent Junction.
Larry shoveling a little snow on the front walkway...
Closeup on an interesting icicle
Woodpecker peckin' wood
An icy #1 Duck!
This is a snowman that Larry and I sculpted. We couldn't do the traditional rolling of the snow balls for his body, the snow was just like powder. So we built a big tall blob and then patted and carved it until it resembled a snowman. Donna provided an orange rind for his mouth, carrot for his nose and chocolate truffles for eyes and buttons! The buttons were gone the first time we let the dogs out to run around, they sniffed them out and chomped down those yummy icy balls of cocoa! Luckily they didn't get sick!
Snowflakes on Mr. Snowman's hat. I took this thinking I could zoom in on them after downloading the shot and that I'd see intricate snowflakes! But alas, there were just snow blobs instead.... ;-)
OK, well I better get back to life on Christmas Eve!
I love all of you, thank you so much for taking time to read my blog these past few years! Merry Christmas and a very Happy 2011 to all of you. I look forward to living life with all of you in the coming year!!
Love, flojo
I planted two Amaryllis bulbs on November 21st. Today one of them bloomed. The name of it is "Evergreen." I love green colored flowers, the first three photos are of my Amaryllis and below that is a Zinnia I grew this Summer called Green Envy....
"Green Envy" Zinnias
This has to be an anomaly, it's two headed.
This Amaryllis is called "Neon" and it may open up on Christmas Day! If not later today....
These are flowers and a small Christmas tree placed at Casey's memorial park. Many of us are thinking of you Casey!
*****
The 11th arson fire occurred Thursday morning, so Larry is working his "day off" today, along with others at AFD. So that opened some time up for me to write to all of you!
The following are some random photos I've taken in the last 2 months that I'd just like to share.
Most of you probably heard that Aumsville, Oregon had a tornado about a week ago. I took this photo, in the evening, on the day of the tornado. It's looking West, it was a crazy weather day I tell ya.
We had a light dusting of snow in November, so I was trying to take a photo of it falling out in front of our house because you could see it against the sun that was shining! So as Engine 12 drove by I shot a photo of it too. Brian saw me and waved as they flew by!! I was a little embarrassed thinking that they thought I was just taking a photo of the Fire Truck flying by my house... :-)
While in my car downtown one day when it was sunny, I took this photo through my sunroof... Freshly painted historic building, so beautiful against that blue sky.
OK, it's a should I/I shouldn't post type of photo.... but I guess I just want to give you something to laugh at, at my own expense... hahahha I caught sight of my profile one morning while working at the computer! It started off as a "bad hair" day for sure!
I've been eyeballing this metal finial at Emma's Downtown for at least 6 months! I finally decided to bring it home when my brother told me that it would take him 3 days of shop time to make this piece and that just shop time would cost $1500.00! That made the little over $100 price tag a lot more palatable to me... :-)
While waiting around Walgreens the other day.....
When I took this photo yesterday after receiving a new phone book delivered to the house, I thought of the movie "The Jerk" when Steve Martin's character gets so excited when he sees his name in the phonebook! He yells "I'm somebody!!"
My Will is certainly no jerk, and he probably doesn't remember that movie so I didn't reference it when I sent him the photo in an email! I told him how proud of him I am..... (he's a licensed Acupuncturist).
At the Duck games this year I sat next to Jack Crabtree. He was the quarterback of the Ducks back in 1958! They weren't the Ducks then, they were the "Webfoots."
Quoted from Wikipedia: "The 1958 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1958. In the game, the 44th Rose Bowl, the Ohio State Buckeyes defeated the Oregon Ducks by a score of 10-7. Jack Crabtree, quarterback of the losing Ducks, was named the Rose Bowl Player of the Game, one of only two players in Rose Bowl history from a losing team who won the award outright."
I thought it was cool that he had a monogrammed blanket. He said he got it in 1958! That's 52 years old! hahhaha
Here's my best buddy Trent, he built and maintains my Studio Meringue website. He came over last week to do some training with me on it. We worked together at Fusion Marketing and Design... Oh, and he (and Audrey) were the ones that started this blog for me back in 2007!!
And lastly, some photos from our weekend in the snow with our friends Frank, Donna and Rob, at their cabin in Crescent Junction.
Larry shoveling a little snow on the front walkway...
Closeup on an interesting icicle
Woodpecker peckin' wood
An icy #1 Duck!
This is a snowman that Larry and I sculpted. We couldn't do the traditional rolling of the snow balls for his body, the snow was just like powder. So we built a big tall blob and then patted and carved it until it resembled a snowman. Donna provided an orange rind for his mouth, carrot for his nose and chocolate truffles for eyes and buttons! The buttons were gone the first time we let the dogs out to run around, they sniffed them out and chomped down those yummy icy balls of cocoa! Luckily they didn't get sick!
Snowflakes on Mr. Snowman's hat. I took this thinking I could zoom in on them after downloading the shot and that I'd see intricate snowflakes! But alas, there were just snow blobs instead.... ;-)
OK, well I better get back to life on Christmas Eve!
I love all of you, thank you so much for taking time to read my blog these past few years! Merry Christmas and a very Happy 2011 to all of you. I look forward to living life with all of you in the coming year!!
Love, flojo
Sunday, December 5, 2010
It's 3:45am
Larry left a 1/2 an hour ago on another fire call, the 10th one in a string of fires that date back to the first one on October 22. Usually I fall right back to sleep, but not this time for some reason. It doesn't get easier/old hat/familiar the more arson fires Albany has. And this one may be an unintentional fire, it's a restaurant not an abandoned or empty house. But I think it's a restaurant that's closed for remodeling at the moment.
In my thoughts tonight/this morning is the fact that with each fire the chances of a Firefighter getting hurt rises. And that's a thought that makes it hard to try and go back to sleep on.... I also had the thought that someone might be lurking outside knowing that Larry's left the house again... :-) Ha! So I turned on 3 lights! hahaha
The Oregon Ducks won the Civil War game today. So it's on to the National Championship in Arizona! I've never been to Arizona but I won't be able to say that after January 10, 2011. We watched today's game with friends at the Pix Theatre in downtown Albany. Here are a few photos:
Go Duck Go!
Final score Ducks 37 Beavers 20....
The sky over our house when we got home.
Friday night we had our annual Fire Department Christmas dinner. I felt the party this year was one of the very best. I loved that it was at a Fire Station this time, and after a few years of separating the kids party from the adults, combining them again was awesome.
Santa shaking his bowl full of jelly after sliding down the chimney pole! There were many more children than is shown in this photo, some just didn't get up as close to that fat Santa!
Us Ducks stick together! This is Samuel, and this is the first time I had met him. His Dad handed him over to me and he put his head on my shoulder. He must have known I needed some snuggling. I'm in love.....
There was a pinata for girls....
And one for the boys...
And when I spotted this heart shape on the apparatus floor I thought of Casey. Or maybe he was thinking of me!
Well it's 4:50am now, and in listening to the scanner in the background; they are still fighting the fire. They've called in a second alarm and have Firefighters from other cities covering our stations.
I'm going to go try to get back to sleep (but I'm leaving a few lights on! :-)
flojo
In my thoughts tonight/this morning is the fact that with each fire the chances of a Firefighter getting hurt rises. And that's a thought that makes it hard to try and go back to sleep on.... I also had the thought that someone might be lurking outside knowing that Larry's left the house again... :-) Ha! So I turned on 3 lights! hahaha
The Oregon Ducks won the Civil War game today. So it's on to the National Championship in Arizona! I've never been to Arizona but I won't be able to say that after January 10, 2011. We watched today's game with friends at the Pix Theatre in downtown Albany. Here are a few photos:
Go Duck Go!
Final score Ducks 37 Beavers 20....
The sky over our house when we got home.
Friday night we had our annual Fire Department Christmas dinner. I felt the party this year was one of the very best. I loved that it was at a Fire Station this time, and after a few years of separating the kids party from the adults, combining them again was awesome.
Santa shaking his bowl full of jelly after sliding down the chimney pole! There were many more children than is shown in this photo, some just didn't get up as close to that fat Santa!
Us Ducks stick together! This is Samuel, and this is the first time I had met him. His Dad handed him over to me and he put his head on my shoulder. He must have known I needed some snuggling. I'm in love.....
There was a pinata for girls....
And one for the boys...
And when I spotted this heart shape on the apparatus floor I thought of Casey. Or maybe he was thinking of me!
Well it's 4:50am now, and in listening to the scanner in the background; they are still fighting the fire. They've called in a second alarm and have Firefighters from other cities covering our stations.
I'm going to go try to get back to sleep (but I'm leaving a few lights on! :-)
flojo
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Vintage Roost Winter Show
If I only had a brain! :-)
I posted on the Studio Meringue Website that the Studio has things for sale at Vintage Roost for the Winter show, but I forgot to email all of my Studio Meringue friends! I'm sorry!
VR is open this weekend and next weekend,
Fridays & Saturdays 10:00 - 5:00. Located at
935 Scenic Dr. 1/2 mile off Hwy 20 in North Albany.
The studio has Christmas cards, gift bags, gift enclosure cards and postcards for sale at the Roost. If you see any card that you would like to have multiples of, maybe to send as Christmas greeting cards, just contact me at:
florence@studiomeringue.com
www.studiomeringue.com
THANK YOU!
My handmade gift bags:
Packages of gift enclosure cards available at the Roost:
Having a Christmas party, here are the perfect postcards to send as invitations:
Gift enclosure cards using the Peppermint motif:
Winter Season blank greeting cards available:
Thank you!
Love, flojo
I posted on the Studio Meringue Website that the Studio has things for sale at Vintage Roost for the Winter show, but I forgot to email all of my Studio Meringue friends! I'm sorry!
VR is open this weekend and next weekend,
Fridays & Saturdays 10:00 - 5:00. Located at
935 Scenic Dr. 1/2 mile off Hwy 20 in North Albany.
The studio has Christmas cards, gift bags, gift enclosure cards and postcards for sale at the Roost. If you see any card that you would like to have multiples of, maybe to send as Christmas greeting cards, just contact me at:
florence@studiomeringue.com
www.studiomeringue.com
THANK YOU!
My handmade gift bags:
Packages of gift enclosure cards available at the Roost:
Having a Christmas party, here are the perfect postcards to send as invitations:
Gift enclosure cards using the Peppermint motif:
Winter Season blank greeting cards available:
Thank you!
Love, flojo
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