Surprise package

Recently I received a lovely unexpected package in the mail. For the life of me I couldn't figure out what it could be, but what a great surprise it was.

This summer, while visiting my family, my brother roped us into the very dirty and dusty job of cleaning out the barn of his new farmhouse. Filled with disembodied racoons, piles of feces, and decades worth of junk, there were a few little treasures hidden inside too. I found, and was granted ownership of, an old and rusty card file that papa bejos took to restore for me. Quite honestly I had forgotten about it. 

But papa bejos didn't forget about it, and outsourced the job to my Uncle Tom who has taken on the new hobby of powder coating.

 Gorgeous, right?

Not quite sure what I will be using it for, but I love it!

Uncle Tom, incidentally, is the person to whom I first declared myself kicken bejos, at age 3, while trying to pronounce my real name. Credit to Uncle Tom is long overdue for the creation of this alias I go by in cyber world.

Long Distance

 

Too many miles separate us from many friends and family. 

We are thankful for Skype and webcams.

The black hole of time on the internet

 

Know the site?
Basically it's an on-line visual bookmarking site that allows you to browse ideas, recipes, photographs, products, etc. through pictures.

It's an ultimate time sucker but it has helped me create a long list of projects for all the imaginary free time I have in my life. Amazingly enough, I have even completed a few projects that I am going to subject you all to in the coming weeks.

Here's one that has hung, unceremoniously, in my office for weeks now. Getting it into the bedroom involved electricity that I wasn't brave enough to do alone. So, thanks to help from a friend who knows a lot more than me when it comes to electricity I finally got this up and hanging this weekend. Yippee!

Coming Home

Work takes me on the occasional overnight trip, but the trip home is always my favorite part. Let the sunset distract you from the fuzzy phone pics from the moving car.

Birthday Outing

After a day of hiking in the warm high desert with Cooper

and a beer

 mr bejos had his first trip to a teppan yaki bar.

Winter, indoors

Pasta delight

For  Christmas mr. bejos got this lovely shiny pasta maker from yours truly. 

 

nom, nom, nom