Invest

When I was 25 and met Josh I was ready for the big things. Yes, he officially owned the house but we shared in the responsibility of repairs and improvements. We parented seven animals. We each started businesses. It was fun!

I might be ready for the big things. Again. I don’t know why it’s so scary this time around. Why does it mean more now? Was I simply playing house before?

New York

I miss you.

Hufnagel Cycles

www.hufnagelcycles.com/

Jordan Hufnagel. This fella is fucking awesome! Not only is he dashing and handsome (yeah, he kills it with the ladies), he is also an amazing frame builder with an eye for refined, practical beauty (come to think of it, that could describe his taste in women too…). I enjoy talking with him because his approach to business, and to life, is to say what he means and enjoy each day. There is not much that gets him down.

Flotilla

Kenya is amazing. She is a birthday wizard. Today Seth turned 30 and she put together a birthday float on Vancouver lake. It was heavenly.

Fall 2009 In Stores Now!

(The Overlay with Adventure Pant)

Living

(Echo, Nat, Henry, Nathan)

wow. I’ll take that.

Check out their parenting blog!

Vanilla

My nieces got their first pet. Vanilla.

This hamster just lucked out. She pretty much resides full-time in my sister’s pocket or on the girls’ laps. And while most rodent pets tend to end up neglected and short-lived, Nat and I take hamsters seriously. The pair we had as kids- Perko and Frilly – were absolute stars of the family. Perko was really really old and had grown a tumor the size of a guava before my Dad threw her over the river bank. I don’t remember what happened to Frilly.

(Update: Nat says “actually they took Perko to the vet. They said they charged $10 if you watched the animal be put to sleep or $0 if you didn’t watch. There was no tossing over the bank!”  Maybe it was Frilly that went over the bank?)

Soupy!

Soupy, roughin it in Oregon.

When I was in Santa Cruz I proposed to Josh that he let me take Soupy to Portland. Just until the end of the month. But oh my, I am getting very used to having her around. She’s just like Bello only littler, faster, and moody. A true girl.

L…

decisions, decisions.

Filly Billy

This is what the revolution looks like. Here we sit, Wednesday morning, making calls, trying to get paid. Leila is our billing department. It is that simple, that small, that personal around here.