The Tradition Continues...We found Poppies!

Hope you enjoyed this brief photo essay. The first four pictures were in our Billings backyard, beginning when Nolan was almost one and a half. Barrett joined the pictures when he was almost one and a half. The last is along a street near our church in Cheyenne.

Happy 34th Birthday to....ME!

Another great birthday today, and nice after a weekend of going through old stuff kept since I was a child. Kind of therapeutic really.

And Kelly discovered that season 5 of Scrubs was released...TODAY...so that tradition continues too! This DVD contains the great 100th episode (aka, the Wizard of Oz episode ending in IZ's rendition of "somewhere over the rainbow."

I also officially received my new wireless weather station today, so will start investigating where that can be placed around the yard.

Still no grass in our seeded back yard, but there is actual rain falling this evening so we'll see if we see some sprouts by the 14 day mark.

Back to celebrating!

We're getting more and more settled into our new home every day. We are doing very well going through a lot of old stuff we've collected over the years.

The boys are doing well and adjusting well to life in Cheyenne.

I've worked a full stretch of midnight shifts (7) and several evenings. My first opportunity to supervise a day shift will be this coming week so that should be fun. On one of my evening shifts last week, we had a confirmed tornado on the ground near I-25 to the north of Cheyenne and near Guernsey (not anywhere near the city of Cheyenne). It came from a very weak thunderstorm and only lasted a very brief time. My co-workers told me that is a typical WY tornado, but over in Nebraska we will see the more textbook type tornadoes. It was good to experience a first tornado in the forecast area so soon, and thank goodness it was out in open country.

Today (Sunday), we were eating lunch and heard the tornado siren going off. Apparently another very small funnel cloud touched down briefly and law enforcement saw it. All we could see from the house was rain shafts and no rotation, but apparently there was a brief tornado on the other side of town. No word on damage yet, if any. The storm fell apart very quickly after the warning was issued.

Later this afternoon we have a church picnic to attend, so hopefully the existing storms dissipate and we can enjoy that and meet some more folks.

For those of you who know, I've taken photos of the boys every year (after they were born, of course) by our poppies in our Billings back yard. We thought we were out of luck this year, so Saturday I took the boys to a big grove of Lilacs here in town for a photo.

As it turns out though, we saw some poppies on the way home from church today so we'll try to get over to that neighborhood today or tomorrow for an authentic "poppy pic."