After she was sedated, the vet inserted an IV for contrast agent.  Tiny tiny veins in the wing are not easy to locate!

Those talons!  The handler had to keep hold of them the entire time she was out of her cage.

He even had to keep holding on while she went into the scanner.  Even though she had been sedated and was in a very calm blissful world.

24 laps ...to go.   (1/8 mile laps)  Seems like a long way at first.  But soon it's just 16.
Then 8
Then I'm done.
One more day down.

Ran one of the laps, jogged three of them, walked the rest.
My face is red.
And my hair drips sweat like a wet mop.

Just wish the pounds would come off as fast as they came on over the holidays.
Next week it will be 36 laps...

I'm experimenting.  The resolution on this is pretty lousy if you watch it full screen - but at least it's a quick painless way to cover some very old territory.

The Christmas holidays this year just felt like a total bust for me.  I'm not sure why, other than the fact that it was the third year in a row we've been torn up and didn't have room for a tree, and besides all that, work has been a chaotic nightmare since September.  

I've finally found a few breather minutes to sit down and organize the photos from December and I'm wondering why I felt that way at all.  Thanks to a crew of awesome children and even more awesome grandchildren, we had some wonderful Christmas experiences.  This clip shares the ones building up to the big day.

I had been trying to do this in PowerPoint, and then Stephanie told me about Windows Live Movie Maker, and I feel so so so foolish.  What a great time saver!

One day I'll get enough photos converted (why did I take them all in RAW?) to post some from the holidays.  In the meantime, here's a treat for you.

I have about a zillion photos over the last month or so I'm still sorting through.  I've been reading about a zillion books, and working every spare minute at work and in my pantry.  I'm still alive and life goes on.  Just had to post this in the meantime ...

This gorgeous location (Thanksgiving Point Gardens Amphitheater) is my favorite place to go to a Jon Schmidt concert.  In the middle of winter, even a dry winter like this, I admit I get hungry for summer.  I must just be a summer person.