Rexburg Sunset

Lara

Another List...

I haven't written a list in a long time, so I better do it now
I feel like when I do this, I'm catching up with all the Twittering I forget to do...
I love my pinhole cameras
They are like my children
I own 5 1/2
Ben is sleeping
I cannot wait for the Fourth of July!  It is my favorite!
But I am already way homesick for the part-ay that will be going down in Woodland.
I do not like to photograph people.  Or buildings
I like to photograph peppers though.  And landscapes
Brother Brown says I don't use enough props in my commercial photography, and I tell him that I am a minimalist.
I think I would rather build cameras that have leaks and contrast issues than use a perfectly new DSLR
is that wrong?
I'm really bored when Ben is sleeping

Tony Chacher's

Sooo, we bought some pretty sweet Tony Chacher's Creole Seasoning the other day.  It comes with a sweet syringe so you can inject it directly into the meat you are cooking.  Tastes so good!

Yeah, he's pretty cute.

Elche, my dog, has been around for a long time.  When I was just barely four-years-old, my mom took my sister and I to the animal shelter to look for a dog.  There were a lot of cute dogs but Elche was the one we were immediately attracted to.  As soon as they opened her cage to let us see her she bolted for the exit.  I remember watching her run down the hall and seeing all the shelter workers trying to catch her.  My mom decided that's the dog we wanted.  The next day my mom sent my dad over to check Elche out.  My dad says that as soon as he saw her he knew that she was our dog.  So he brought her home.

I loved my dog.  We played together.  I built her forts and chased her around the yard.  I remember one time she chewed up my favorite helmet, that wasn't so fun.  When she was little she had this stuffed fish that she loved.  She could run so fast.  We'd play this game with her were we would stomp our foot and she would take off running around in circles.  Then she'd stop and look at us and we'd stomp our foot again and she'd run again.  It seems really boring, but she loved that game.

In case you don't know Elche, but a lot of people do, she ran away....all the time.  Like once a week at least.  For awhile it was everyday.  My mom would leave to pick up the kids from school and when she came back Elche would be gone.  A few hours later Elche would show up on our porch or the pound would call us and tell us they had our dog.  Again.  One time we came home to find an Animal Control truck parked outside our house.  The officer told us to stand back because the "wild dog" he had been chasing had ran back there.  We assured him it was fine, it was OUR dog.

Twice we thought we lost her for good.  The first time was in Rancho Cordova.  Elche was staying there while we remodeled our house.  She was missing for a week in a city that she knew nothing about.  A man finally coaxed her into his house with a piece of pizza.  The second time was at New Years.  Elche was terrified of fireworks so when we got home she had chewed her way out of our fence.  She was gone for a week that time too.  When we found her, she was 10 miles away, across a river, muddy, skin and bones, and she had lost her voice.  My mom told us that someday she would run away and we would never see her again.

Elche lived a long time.  Seventeen years!  I can't remember a time without her.  Over the last few years she turned into this old lady dog that just wanted to sleep all the time.  She went blind and practically deaf (Sometimes I think she just pretended to be deaf...) but she still loved to play with us.  Whenever Arianna was over, Elche always wanted to be right in the middle of whatever we were doing.  She followed my dad everywhere, all over the house and in the yard.  She was a good dog.  Soon she couldn't recognize my dad or my brothers.  She ran into things and got lost in our yard.  Yesterday we put her down and she was buried out in the country.  She lived a long long long life.  And it was fabulous.  And even though we will miss her, it's so great to know that she has her playful body back.  I know that I will get to see her again :)

Love,
Rachel

Tender Moments...

-Just ate a delicious bowl of cookies and cream ice cream
-Watching Shakespeare's "Henry V."  It's actually pretty good, except for all the parts with the dirty nasty soldiers
-Fiction Family is my favorite today
-LOST Finale was this weekend.  I'll admit, I'm a little heartbroken...
-Ben and I debated about the outcome of LOST for like an hour last night...and I won.
-I miss my puppy so very bad...
-I like food photography, if only because I get to eat the deliciously expensive food when I'm done.
-Kenneth Brannagh as Henry V is sooooo romantic!
-I don't understand why Ben won't watch "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" with me after all the Shakespeare I've watched with him...
-Today I didn't really do anything...
-I practically live at the photo lab, but I don't mind
-Poor Benjamin Linus...he didn't get to go with the rest of the LOST people...
-I have a new pinhole camera!
-Photography is as simple as a pinhole in a dark room...who needs photoshop?
-ewww, somebody made a pinhole camera out of a skull...gross!
-I just want to sit at home and make books all day
-We finally bought some furniture for our living room, and it looks fabulous!
-Especially our tv stand
-I haven't watched TLC in like a week, aren't you proud?
-I love my job, I'm kinda sad I won't get to do it forever
-Someday I want to start a commercial photography business.

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