Neat! From what you described, I expected a less even coating, but that was actually really nice, you know? I love that sort of body paint theme in large part because it really shows off your curves so nicely--defines them in a way that "just skin" doesn't. Please tell me that made sense and that I don't sound like a nut-job (well, alright, I am, but still ...). Anyway, a bit o' trivia (now that the young ones have gone home--we spent the past couple hours listening to a lot of Heart, Queen, Peas & playing air guitar/drum). I don't know if you've seen the show on SciFi, Ghost Hunters, but, yep, I have some trivia related to one of them. The founder of TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society), Jason Hawes, is a 10th cousin 2 times removed of Vincent Price. Loved Vincent! I watched his movies just about every Saturday on Monster Mash at noon when I lived in Monte Vista CA. Loved The Pit & the Pendulum & House of Wax! Anyway, with Halloween coming I thought I'd do something different. Have a great night, good night's sleep and great day tomorrow!

Well...I'm glad you like the picture. As soon as I get the rest in I will be posting them on the site.

Oh, just saw your silver body photo, and let me just say, Arooga-arooga! Jimminy willickers! cripes! Oh, and apparently, according to my profile I'm Dreaming of Danielle. Wicked cool.

I used to go all the time to the polls--they were at my bro's jr. high and just a couple blocks away. The last time I did go was for early voting here (Toni Tennille, of The Captain & Tennille--yeah, right, like I expect you to know who that is!) was a couple places behind me. I got used to voting absentee after one primary in CA where people were given color-coded ballots, depending on which party you belonged to. A lot of people had different colors than I did, which I guess made me self-conscious. If worse comes to worse, the local grocery store is often used for early voting here (its just a couple blocks away), but they set things up right near the entrance where passersby can peek over your shoulder. But I checked my mail today, and still no sample ballot or anything. I love voting! Its like Christmas for me.

I will probably be going down to the local polls to vote. I've never done mail voting and for some reason that seems kind of weird to me.

The first time I saw a bear I was about 4, maybe 5, camping in a tent in Yosemite. We got woken up in the middle of the night with it just a couple yards from the tent's entrance. If I get a chance to go back, I plan on sleeping at the upper camp (where the bear are), with just a pad under me, mosquito netting over me and just enjoy! I love bears! And up at the north end of Reno, near Stead (where they have the air races), there's a place, the closest Reno gets to having a zoo, that has a wolf show. I haven't been there, but I have it under v. good authority its wicked cool. One of the funnest times I had at a zoo was when I was taking physical anthro and had been studying chimp & gorilla mannerisms. One of the assignments was to go to the San Francisco zoo and just observe for a day. I went, I observed, and I started emulating the chimps, and then they got interested in me! That was fan-freaking-tastic! The elder of those relations I mention to you got to see the wolves a couple years back, as well as pet a black jag (you'd be amazed what you see in Virginia City sometimes--like when Grizzly Adams used to walk up & down the streets of SF with his bears back in the 1800s). Fun stuff, oh and I'm envious about you getting to see Alaska--my dad lived there 6 years before I was born and I have his old slides--just beautiful! Anyway, here's a bit more trivia for ya (the debate ended a couple minutes ago & first commercial up was for W, so here you go: Josh Brolin is an 8th cousin 1 time removed of George W. Bush. Now how do you like them apples? I have a nice database, and while that program irks me, it does have one feature that's nice--a relationship calculator (I used to have to do it by hand, finding a common ancestor, then counting the generations). Liked the debate, too, although technically I'm not sure if it really is a debate, but who cares? It was interesting. And I saw your journal. I think you need to fill out an early voting request in your county (Maricopa, I assume so: https://recorder.maricopa.gov/earlyvoteballotnet/), which has to be in by election day. I checked (http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/arizona/98407.php), and it looks like some early ballots were mailed out last week down your way. Meanwhile up here in NV I'm still waiting (this is me standing with my arms crossed tapping my foot impatiently). I hate saying "break a leg" to you, despite tradition, but I'm a stupid-sticious so there you go ...Have a great night, sleep tight, &c., &c.

I did see Bison but I liked the bears and wolves more. It's pretty crazy how much random trivia about geneaology you know. It's awesome

Trivia! I posted a new suggestion for an update for you, and while at it thought I'd give you some background & trivia to go with it. (Not that I mean to knock you off your diet or anything, either). Once upon a time there was a nice lady named Ruth Wakefield (nee Graves). She and her hubby, Ken, opened up a bed & breakfast on Cape Cod a few decades back. One day, Ruth went to make chocolate cookies for her guests, only to find she was out of cocoa powder. All she had on her shelf that came close was a block of Nestle semi-sweet chocolate. Not wanting to disappoint her paying customers, Ruth ad-libed and broke the brick into chunks. The cookies were a hit. Ruth's invention, the chocolate-chip cookie, became a hit, so big a hit, in fact, that Nestle became aware of them. Working out a deal with Ruth wherein she would receive chocolate, she sold her recipe to Nestle where it still appears on packages of their chips. Oh, and the name of Ruth & Ken's B&B? The Toll House Inn! Now, if that isn't amusing enough, Ruth had a cousin (7th cousin, 1 time removed to be specific) named Julia McWilliams. Julia, a one-time spy, married and later became famous as the French Chef, Julia Child. And if that isn't enough, Ruth & Julia had another cousin (all descended from the same couple) named Marjorie Child Husted, a home economist who is famous not necessarily for herself, but for the advertising campaign she was behind--Marjorie, you see, was the real life "Betty Crocker." Now ain't that a humdinger?

You know, I never got to Yellowstone. I am sure it was gorgeous though. I take it then that you got to see the bison up close? Magnificent animals, I think. God I love the west! The closest I think I've ever been to bison are the ones at Golden Gate Park. They have, for some reason, a little paddock of them there. But I love the mountains here (I love Long's Peak better though, but Colorado has nothing to compare to Tahoe!). When I lived in CA, I was about a 40 minute drive (not going fast, either) from Jenner & Goat Rock--rough, cold water, strong undertow, decent surfing I'm told, but also home of the Great White (seals & sea lions call the estuary there where the Russian River opens into the ocean home). Bodega Head was really sweet, too. You could have one foot on the Pacific Plate, and the other on the North American Plate there. The best thing about where I live now is that there's a little park just a couple blocks away where its 1/3 playgrounds/soccer fields/softball diamond, and 2/3 wild with bike & hiking trails on the hills, lots of jack rabbits, cottontails, ground squirrels and a couple red-tail hawks that make their home there, plus lots of quail, mourning doves, scrub jays and the like. A couple years ago I was taking my older relative out there just about every weekend looking for tracks, animals, and just having fun. We'd go up in spring, fall & winter (summer was just too hot, plus she goes to CA to visit her mom's family for several weeks). She wants to spend more time with her friends now, though, so its harder (). I used to take the little one up there in her stroller when she was less than 1 ever other day for an entire summer. That was fun--she slept, but now she has this huge need to go out and go for walks, so hopefully its something that's ingrained in her now and that she'll keep the rest of her life. Just good, simple times to cherish, no? I live by that "mwaah" motto: KISS--Keep It Simple ('cause I'm) Stupid! Anyway, thanks for listening to me blabber on. I am really happy that you, Rob, and everyone else is safe, and it was good to hear from WhyYou and Missy last night about tigger, too. Cheers!

Thank you so much for the concern about the crash Rob and I went through. I really hope Tigger is doing okay. It's just like you said, I've never met any of you guys face to face but I've come to care about you all and your lives. I love listening about your day to day lives, your little problems, etc. It makes me feel...I don't know, included.

I actually lived 15 minutes away from Yellowstone National Park. I also did a month long camping trip across Canada and Alaska, so I got to see quite a few national parks.