Sunday, November 30, 2008

McKinney Falls state park

Purty cute.

I took the kiddos camping. Its been fun, but when you go to sleep at 8:15, you tend to wake up at 3. So here I am. We did a lot of walking yesterday and saw some cool stuff, including McKinney's (one of Stephen F Austin's original 200) summer homestead. We had venison sausage and beans for dinner, which was very yummy and cooked on my new Coleman stove. Gonna be scrambling eggs before too long.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Been a good Turkey Day

Ran the Turkey Trot this morning, albeit slowly (44:10) and Jillian ran the kid's K. Had a spectacular meal out at the Farm and even caught a nap watching the Cowboy game (snoozer). Now, I'm at the last Horns home game of the season listening to them introduce the seniors. Life is good.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Our trip to Walnet Creek Park

I love fall. We may not have leaf peepers coming down to the hill country to see the leaves change, but we've got some mighty pretty country all the same.

Rather than go on a long run this Saturday (just finished the SA Half Marathon last weekend), I took the kiddos and the dog to Walnut Creek Park. We ended up walking around for about an hour and a half, chasing Myles the dog around the trails. It was quite fun. We did have a little adventure though, when Myles took off after a squirrel down a cliff and ended up at the bottom of the creek when we were on a ledge far above. We had to backtrack about an eighth of a mile to where the trail gets down to the creek bed to reunite with him. Then, on the way out of the park, Myles did it again and we lost him for a good 15 minutes, to find him again at the bottom of the creek. Needless to say, we kept a close eye on him the rest of the time there.

Pics below. I was especially perplexed at the dude on the unicycle. Its weird enough to be riding one, but then to ride one in the mountain biking park. Odd indeed.


Thursday, November 20, 2008

Jillian's Thanksgiving Play

Too fun. Afterward, we repaired to her classroom for a cafeteria tday feast. Got some good footage with the mino as well, if it will ever finish transcoding.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Out with Ian


Out with Ian
Originally uploaded by Matt Hawk in Austin
Who is recently back from Japan where he was building the next generation of fembots.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Devil Doggy


Devil Doggy
Originally uploaded by Matt Hawk in Austin
Here's Myles taken with my new phone (this one's got a flash!) the room was completely dark.