My father right after his second tour in Vietnam.
Mum a couple of days after she met Dad.
Mum was English, here she is before she met Dad.
My parents got married, they were actually happy, promise! :)
I came around a year and a half after they were married.
I screamed a lot, I think. Poor parents, but they kept me!
My Dad and me during my first Christmas :)
My father many years later :)
I learned to love snakes since I was little.
Me as a high school freshman.
I met this crazy, amazing man when I was 16!
I dated the crazy man for three years. :)
3 VERY happy years!
My then fiancee at my 18th birthday party, which was a camping weekend with our D&D group. This was 1988.
My soon to be husband starting engineering clases, and I was taking history classes at college.
Two months before I turned 20, I married that incredible man :)
All smiles. So much both of our cheeks hurt that night!
My gorgeous husband after we married.
My gorgeous husband a few years later.
Still gorgeous many years later!
This shirt makes me laugh :) It's funny, but true - hockey makes him happy!
Husband with his bike :)
Older and STILL the most handsome man in the world!
My husband and I right before we moved out of the Bay :)
We had a baby 3 years after we married! This is our daughter...
And this is our son, 9 years after we married! :)
We raised them, as parents do!
Both of them, we raised them both. :)
My daughter and me a year ago :)
My son out working :)
My son and me a year ago :)
My son playing football a few years back.
My daughter in Switzerland :)
My son hanging out with me :)
My daughter multitasking ;)
My son and one of the hounds ;)
My son being all son-like :)
My daughter in Cornwall, where my Mum was years before :)
My daughter met this great guy and got engaged!
My daughter, her then fiancee, and my son :)
My husband and daughter dancing at her wedding :)
She married that great guy she met! :)
My daughter, son-in-law, and now 2 years later, a grandbaby!! :)
One of my brothers :)
The other one of my brothers :)
We've all known each other since we were little kids :)
My brother with some tall random dude.
My brothers with another long time friend :)
My brother at my wedding :)
My brother is actually a Sith Lord!
My brother with some guy he hangs out and travels with a lot ;)
My brother making noises :)
My family :)
I love this picture :)
My brother with that strange guy again :)
Me now. Granny!
More family, my furbabies :)
Many furbabies! :)
When two of them were little :)
When one of them was a teeny puppy!
They do grow up though :)
Beautiful smile :)
Happy puppies!
Someone is coming! We'll watch :)
Silly girl :)
She KNOWS how to pose! :)
Sleepy girl :)
One of my girls :)
My little girls! :)
The newest baby looking ruffled. ;)
That cute little face! :D
What? What did I do? :)
One of our kitties relaxing :)
This guy does NOT relax :)
We heard crinkling!!
We have 3 black cats :)
Our cockatiels :)
Our peacocks!
Our peacocks had a baby last year :)
Here she is this year :)
MANY chickens. :)
I'm not going to caption every chicken picture :)
Just know that we love our chickens :)
More chickens! !
They all wander around during the day, uner the watchful eye of the rooster :)
Baby chickens!
The presents our chickens give us :)
Sometimes geese come by to visit :)
Goats, we have them too :)
Our chickens live, as is right, in a Hobbit hole :)
The Hobbit hole in winter :)
We also have bees :)
Seed packets :)
And MORE seed packets :)
The most delicate plants inside for overwintering :)
Starting seeds :)
Starting lavender seeds :)
Lots of pictures of the gardens, so cut and paste captions ;)
Elderberry starters :)
The gardens :)
Inside the greenhouse :)
Azalea bloom :)
Plum trees starting to produce!
Build stairs, chickens will use them! ;)
Built stairs for a steep part of the property :)
Rose garden dedicated to my parents :)
Rose garden :)
Rose garden OVERGROWN!!! :) Taken care of now :)
Fountain for my parents in memory :)
Fountain lit up at night :)
HUGE roses in front about to bloom!
Various bulbs. NOT fake! :)
More of those bulbs :)
And we shall call this... our land. ;)
Our solar doesn't work as well like this ;)
We're lucky to live in one of the most beautiful areas of the world :)
My son-in-law's and daughter's vineyard :)
Sierra foothills :)
Sometimes we get awesome visitors, like this little guy! :)
And this little guy decided to sun himself on our stairs :)
This fish jumped out of our pond! It was put back :)
My son working on our land :)
My husband working on our land too :)
Meanwhile I spend a lot of time crafting. :)
How I grip my crochet hook :)
Crocheting stuff :)
Decoupaging stuff :)
Shelf o' Projects :)
Barrettes :)
Yarn... it fills me with joy! :)
Happiness on my patio/studio :)
Game of Thrones going on the patio/studio :)
More happiness on the patio/studio :)
Part of the wraparound porch :)
Dragons always :)
My brother made a snow bro ;)
My husband makes various fruit wines and meads :)
My son makes 100% from scratch pizzas :)
Mordor on the patio.studio ;)
Valryrian steel :) We're ready for The Others here!
My original Horde WoW Warlock.
Mum made pastys. :)
D&D is still a thing of happiness :)
My leveling hunter build for Vanilla :)
Started as a Tauren in Vanilla. Now she's not :)
My first WoW character ever - Gnome Warlock :)
My first WoW hunter :)
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