So the mother tomato says: Catch-up!

(So, my title is in reference to a joke about getting caught up that I learned from my former teammates, N&K.  "What does the momma tomato say to the baby tomato when it was falling behind?"  Then you slam your fist down like the mother is squishing the baby and yell: "Ketchup!"  ...It's still funny in my heart.  : )) 

Anyways, just a few items of business:

• I'm working on Middle East pictures today!  Hopefully up soon.  Until then, I'll put up a few more Sequoia picts to keep you satiated. (One's here; the rest are at the end of the post.)
• My Facebook world & my blog world are starting to collide.  If you read this blog AND you're a Facebooker, we should probably be friends because I'm sometimes faster at updating FB.  If you're not on FB, never fear - I shall continue to keep up this blog because, despite myself, I really can't curb my occasional need to write....
• I also added a few friends to my "Fellow Travelers" list.  Peruse their blogs at your leisure.
• And lastly, for now, I am slowly but surely catching up on my life.  Or, at least, kind of.  Laundry's checked off, anyway.  And now I'm going to try to tackle some computer stuff (i.e. pictures, e-mails, blog, etc.).  Huzzah for that.

And that's kind of the latest, I guess.  The Mariners had a heart-breaker of a loss against the Angels last night down here...and I blame myself for not being there to support them.  (Although I had fun just chilling with KM & B, instead.)  I'm still debating on going to tomorrow's game or not....  I'll let ya know.

Also, one (out of four) of my nieces, Clover, turned four this week.  She's partying hardy today, so happy birthday to her.  In celebration of her, here are a few pictures of all four of them, taken while I was home last month.  I enjoy my role as the "motorcycle-aunt."  : )

 

And here are a few more pictures of Sequoia.  The photos in my last post were actually JD's 'cause mine were stilling sitting untouched on my camera, but thanks to my great catch-up day, I finally have a few of my own to share.  They depict a few eye-catching moments of the trip: 1) a baby rattle snake; 2) rapid kayakers which invoked envy in me; 3) General Sherman, which is the largest tree [by volume] in the world; and 4) a pretty sweet view.   

Although we were originally planning to go to Yosemite (and had, in fact, been calling the trip "Yosemite is the Remedy"), when push came to shove, we decided that for two fewer hours of being in the car, really, trees are trees...and these looked just fine.   

Of course, we were still in the car for a good bit since Sequoia's about 4ish hours northwest of Pasadena (except that our car took more like 5.5 hours getting up there because we were so easily distracted by Starbucks and an eatery by the name of "Apple Annie's").  ...But it was a fun ride and definitely worth two nights and a day and a half embracing the great outdoors....    

Ok, time to go hug a tree.  : )  Have a great weekend, everybody! 

Comments

[Sara]

Thanks for adding me to the fellow travelers list...I was feeling slighted, but I realize that's not something that gets updated every day.