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Now, my day are all productive and filled with yardwork. Awesome.

While I was flipping sod or sharpening my axes or something, Kate was communing with nature (specifically this snail). I named Snail-o the Brave. Please note, Kate’s gloves are Purple and have a Delicate floral pattern on the back of the hand.

When we dug out the Ivy in the front yard, Kate informed me we would be planting Succulents. After going home and looking up what the hell those were, I decide it was a horrible idea and would fail. Turns out I was wrong. Below is a photo of one of happy little guys, I don’t know the name of plant and I don’t care. Its a plant, why would it need a name? Seriously, what’s it going to do…open a checking account or something.

This is the plant I saved from Kate’s all chopping ways, I think it is a Heather or something like that. All I know is that this bush is like some kind of swingers hotel for birds, madness in there.

Kate went as Juno, from the movie Juno.  I must say she did a pretty good job, proof:

For those that want to know how to fake your own full term pregnancy, please consult these photos:

Note the stitched on button, simulating an outtie belly button.

I of course sat in the office all day doing end of the month reports and working.  Spoooooooky.

Here is a reminder of a costume I had has a kid, which was later stolen by for a movie picture film.

Shark Costume

PS. Hey Science Guys!  How about figuring out what gene makes drunk girls yell “Whooooo!” until 4 AM for no reason and surpressing it….or something.

PPS. Micheal Phelps costumes? Really?  C’mon.

This week I did in fact need to go and was lucky enough to get to spend some time with my grand-parents Joe and Doe.

Before dinner I checked out Joe’s amazing wooden model of an Ercoupe Airplane.  Each little part made by hand, without instructions, all from wood.  The steering wheels turn the flaps (or whatever those things are called), the landing gears have little wooden shock absorbs that move, it is an amazing model.

Generally speaking, my family is chocked full of creative folks, my grandpa does this (and used to rebuild the real thing), I have an uncles who either designing adverting or building a plane in garage, cousins who dance and draw.  This could be biggest indicator I was switched a birth.  Somewhere this is an engineer in a family full of really attractive people trying to figure how he fits in.

As part of the trip I went to Richland, Washington. Not much to say…except this little riddle. What is a SMORGY?

Here are some photos:

More on my flickr

On the Roster:

• Kelpie
• Hercules Double IPA
• Oak Aged Yeti
• Dog Fish Head 120 Minute IPA
• Raison D’Extra
• Pranqster Belgium Style Golden Ale
• Rogue Chipotle Ale
• Duchesse De Bourgeois
• Fin Du Monde

Still suffering from massive burning, so we nixed the beach today and spent a nice mellow day hanging out in restaurants and watching people go by.  I drank 3 bottles of sprite before noon, take that teeth.

Tossed some more photos up on the flickr-net.

Does it wig anyone else out how easy it is to stay in communication now?  The first time I went to Asia (10 years ago now) there were internet cafes in a few major towns, some countries here didn’t really even have them.  Now I can toss photos out, upload videos, and pretty much stay in constant contact.  The world is much smaller.

Painfully slow connection prevents me from posting them here.

“What is our FTP server setting?” is hardly the question I suspected from my wife, but lo, it has been questioned. Kate, being industry and artsy, threw together ryanandkate.net last night. She did it using iWeb and found it to be pretty easy. Today, she is dorking around creating a blog for it.

Currently, she has a furrowed brow and is lamenting how the page re-acts to link she put in. Could a Word Press powered version be far off? Oh, my heart flutters.

For time being check the site out for some photo albums, a movie review, and general Kate Weirdness.

The problem right now has to do with my “Super Kate” keyword. Basically, I thought I would sort out the always photogenic Katrin photos I liked the best. There are 200 “favorites”. That simply doesn’t help.

Oh well. Hot Wife Pictures A Plenty isn’t a bad thing.

Malea’s Birthday on Vimeo

And more photos for those interested