: sonja and walli come home

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: holidaze

monday morning, back to the grind....at least it's only a 3 day week! i'm still recovering from the holiday madness, a cold, and way too much eating in the past week. hopefully this week will fly by! lots of design work to be done, a piece of artwork for my cousin's home, and on a super positive note...we pick up our new kitties tonight which t and i are both totally psyched about. 2010 is almost upon us...damn...where did the year go???

: phew

the holiday madness is over...phew! looking forward to the new year, new artwork and photographs, and lots of good times!

: icat

i've been getting creative in preparation for our new kitties....introducing the icat!

: wild winter weekend

wow, this weekend was quite an adventure. we headed up to mass. friday and hung out with t's brother and his family. saturday we had plans to attend a christmas party in rockport, mass and stay overnight at an inn on the coast...but ended up retreating home to ct to avoid the wrath of winter storm albert. yesterday i spent a good portion of the morning clearing snow and the rest of the day was spent relaxing. gotta love 11 inches of snow!

winter storm albert: click here

: our new children

t and i are adopting two kitties from a shelter that my friend works at. sonja is a 2 year old tabby and walli is a 3 year old tiger cat. we're psyched to have both of these cats coming into our home. it's been a lonely 4 months since our kitty korny passed away! we'll be traveling for the holiday, so the shelter is going to look after our kitties for one more week. this time next week we'll have 2 new furry friends in our lives.

sonja & walli photos: click here

: hand made for the holiday

i put up our little christmas tree yesterday and scattered some holiday decorations about the house. our tree is decorated very simply with small silver gift boxes, pine cones, and faux holly bunches. i picked up the below ornament this morning which was custom painted for us by local artist michele mazza. she has been hand painting glass ornaments for the holidays and was nice enough to take a special request from me. thanks michele! this ornament is dead center acting as the heart of our tree. happy holidays everyone!

: sunday hurd hike

t and i were up and at it early again today, this time hiking at hurd state park. we made our way down to the river and walked the full length of the slab stone jetty...a solid 20 minute tip toe adventure paying extra close attention not to fall in the frigid water! there were lots of signs of beavers in action and one chow spot was bloody...fresh blood that couldn't of been more than a few hours old...which was a pretty wild sight! we had a stalker the whole way back up the trail from the river, a dog that insisted on following us and leaving his dog friend and master in the dust. too funny, but he eventually ran back to his group. fun, fun sunday!

hurd hike photos: click here

: saturday adventures: 12/12/09

t and i were up bright and early yesterday to hit the trails at machimoodus state park. it was 24 degrees out with a 10 degree wind chill making the start of the walk west into the wind pretty brutal! once we got the blood pumping we warmed up pretty fast and the rest of our hour and a half adventure was fun. we looked all over the park as we hiked trying to locate the spot where the christmas tree now standing in gilette castle was cut down, but we had no luck. hmmm? we spotted a monsterous eagle soaring over head which always an awesome site. after our hike we grabbed some delicious food down in essex and sat in the toasty warm car along the connecticut river enjoying our lunch and taking in the sites. such a low key, relaxing day together.

saturday adventure photos: click here

: oil rigs at the north pole?

the elves must of been successful drilling at the north pole!
looks like old st. nick is getting in on the oil business.
hell, there has to be a lot more money in oil that in toys.

: gilette for the holidays

t and i toured gilette castle yesterday morning. the castle is decked out for the holidays including a huge 18' fully decorated tree which was cut locally at machimoodus state park...a place we hike and cross country ski. the craftsmanship inside that castle is amazing! so much hand carved wood and each of the doors is a work of art in itself. i suggest spending the $10 and checking out gilette if you have time. they castle is open on saturdays and sundays from 10-4 until the end of the holidays.

gilette castle photos: click here

: waking up to december