A little more hanging out with Dieter
Butterfly Boy
My Animaniacs book
I was making 1610 Rose Cakes for Valentine’s Day. That’s me with my batter.
Baking rose cookies
Dieter bakes in a luchador mask
Hanging out with Dieter
Dieter (whose name is really Brent but at this time he had us calling him Dieter) was visiting me from Georgia!
Dieter in my house!
It’s him!
We went to the mall for fun. I was kind of being disturbing with my lollipop.
Licking a lolly
Dieter tries DDR
Ivy tries DDR
Gator measures heights
Evil duck
My ref buddy
Curled up sleepy
Halloween 2003
Halloween 2003 with Jeaux, Mike, and Brendon! I was an Ivy Fairy, Mike was the Grim Kahuna, Jeaux was the Cow Fairy, and Brendon was a Jedi.
Halloween Group
Jeaux as the Cow Fairy
Mike as the Grim Cahuna
Ivy as the Ivy Fairy
Mike (Grim Cahuna) & Brendon (Jedi)
Jeaux (Cow Fairy) & Ivy (Ivy Fairy)
My candy
Fred Visit Day 8
Fred and me right before we took off down the river!
Before canoeing
It’s a gator we saw on the river!
Gator
This is another gator. Actually I took a bunch of shots of gators but not all of them are that interesting so I just put the two best ones.
Gator
We ran the canoe onto the bank on purpose so we could have a picnic. This is me and my mommy relaxing.
Mom and Ivy picnic
This is what my mom described as the “big honkin’ tree” that we used as our landmark to find the picnic place. (It was pretty honkin’.)
Big honkin tree
We’re shoving off to paddle the rest of the trip; me and Mommy in the canoe.
Mom & Ivy canoe
There was some awesome scenery on the Hillsborough River! Lookit how the reflections are in the water.
Nice scenery
A pretty bird in a picturesque scene!
Nice nature
WOW. Look at that reflection. It totally bowled me over, I’m glad the quality translated to digital format.
Nice nature
At the end of our trip, we spotted this WILD CHICKEN. Also known as gator food. Heh.
A wild chicken
I met my friends at Beer Belly’s, where some came for the beer and some came for the karaoke. (Guess which reason was mine?) Here we have me, Phil, Steve, and Meghan.
Phil, Steve, Meghan at Beer Belly’s
Same people as above except now you can see Ammy. We’re trying to decide what to sing. (Steve is only concerned with getting shitfaced. Which he did well.)
With Ammy, Phil, Steve, Meg, 7/2003
Ammy, me, and Phil. Probably saying or doing something goofy.
Ammy, Ivy, Phil at Beer Belly’s
For some reason this is what my mom did when her picture was taken at the karaoke place.
Mom licks her drinks
It’s Ammy singing karaoke.
Ammy sings at karaoke
Fred’s turn to sing!
Fred sings at karaoke
It was so special that I had to have two pictures. 🙂
Fred sings at karaoke
Here’s me singing karaoke, from far away.
Ivy sings at karaoke
Meghan’s turn to sing! She is a doll.
Meghan sings at karaoke
Phil’s turn. My mom forbade him to sing the song “Chef’s Salty Chocolate Balls” this time, so he ended up singing Adam Sandler’s “Ode to My Car.” Just as raunchy. You can tell from his hand gesture.
Phil sings at karaoke
Fred Visit Day 7
I’m going through the memory boxes at my mom’s house.
Going through a memory box
There’s me and my baby sister L, posing for the camera. (Damn, she’s tall.)
Lindsay & Ivy
Here’s me and my sister with her cute-but-freaky-looking chihuahua, Pork Chop.
Lindsay with Pork Chop
The dog being cute. (But how can she help it?)
Pork Chop being cute
She does this cute thing where she stands on her hind legs and actually turns around if you bribe her with a treat, like my mom’s doing here.
Mom does a trick with Pork Chop
Fred Visit Day 5
Fred’s making mushrooms.
Fred cooks mushrooms
We had Morningstar Grillers, potato bread, and mushrooms!
Our feast
We made cinnamon buns for Aubrey at work, who was leaving. We made some for us, too, but used allspice because cinnamon doesn’t agree with either of us.
Cinnamon buns
Fred Visit Day 2
We went on a picnic. Here’s Fred by an attractive tree.
Fred at picnic
On our picnic, I tried to climb a tire. (Notice the deedlybobs on my head. They’re cute!)
Climbing big tire
Look, I’m going to town on the DDR machine.
Playing DDR
Fred’s going to town too. Maybe not town, actually, more like a small settlement . . . but it’s his first time! Cut him slack! Hehe.
Playing DDR
Last day of Fred’s visit
After All World Acres, we went back to my mom’s house and stayed with her. Here is me the next day, standing in her garden thingie.
Mom’s yard
Here’s Fred with my mom’s stuffed eel. I think it’s an eel anyway.
Fred’s snake
Beach with Ammy
We went back to Tampa in the morning and met up with my good friend and old college roomie, Ammy. While we were in the process of picking her up, her aunts and cousins came in, and one of her cousins got excited at the prospect of showing us her pet chicken. Then we all went to the beach, but kind of got rained out. This is us standing under the hatch of the SUV, hoping the rain will let up and allow us on the beach again. (It didn’t.)
Ammy & Ivy at the beach
After we’d gotten changed back to regular clothes, we went to the Tampa Pitcher Show for dinner and a movie–at the same time! Here is Ammy and me pretending we think we’re hot stuff, sitting on the car.
Ammy & Ivy at the beach
All World Acres potluck and drum circle
The next day, we got out of the tent and sat around for a few hours. Here is me, newly awake and already being baked by the sun.
Breakfast at All World Acres
Fred makes a meal of canned pears.
Breakfast at All World Acres
Most of the day we just hung out with other campers and the kids of the people who own All World Acres. We played chess, cooked, had a bonfire, a potluck, a drum circle . . . and played with the cats.
Fred enjoying a cat
We also played a fair amount of cards. I taught a girl how to play several kinds of solitaire and another game, and when things got boring I built a card house and put a ketchup bottle on top. It stayed up ’cause I’m just so good at that.
Built a card house that supports ketchup