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I put my Christmas tree up this afternoon. It actually looks pretty decent. I have a random assortment of ornaments on it. Some from my Godmother and others that I’ve bought or received as gifts from others.

I think this is the last year for this configuration. I need to get a new set of lights for next year as this one is on it’s last legs (I had to wiggle the bulbs in order to get the top half to light up). I think I’m going to go more simple next year … just silver and blue. I already have silver garland and blue bulbs. I think I’ll get either white or blue lights (or maybe both) and leave it as that. But that’s for next year, so I have time to decide.

Those of you who know me, know what a HUGE NASCAR fan I am. And anyone who knows me knows that I’m a HUGE Dale Earnhardt Jr fan. He was the first driver I ever started cheering for.

A while back, I signed up for a chance to have my name on Dale Jr’s Amp Energy/National Guard car for the race at Talladega. I just found out today that my name is on the car. It’s on the roof … between the 8’s. How cool is that. I didn’t think I got my registration in on time because I never got an email about it. But apparently a lot of people didn’t. But I found my name on the ampenergy.com website, so it’s true.

The race is this Sunday (October 5th). When I watch the race, I’ll be watching myself go around the track … well, at least my name will be. I hope I bring him some good luck. I’d love to see him in Victory Lane. I just wish I could see the race in person rather than on tv. Maybe some day …

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Robin, Dannilynn, and I went to the MSUM 4th of July festivities today. We went to the parade and then to the MSUM campus for some entertainment, food, booths, and other stuff.

I took a bunch of pics of Dannilynn at the parade since this was the first one she could really enjoy. She was at this one last year, but she was only 2 months old then. And she was at the West Fest parade last year, but she was still pretty little. She really seemed to enjoy it.

This pic just looks like she’s saying “What you talkin’ ’bout Willis?” It’s my favorite of the bunch.

We might go to watch the fireworks later tonite. It just depends on what kind of mood Dannilynn is in. If we do, I’ll try to take pics. I’ll post if they turn out good.

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Today has been a rather interesting day. Around noon, I went out on my balcony and saw smoke in the direction of the mall. It turns out there was a really big apartment fire a few blocks north and west of the mall. There’s no roof left on that building. Very scary.

Then while I was at Robin’s this afternoon, my Mom called to let me know that there was a severe storm headed toward town. Lots of wind when that went through. Branches everywhere.

Then shortly after I got home from Robin’s, around 7:30pm or so, we had another storm head toward town. This one had a tornado warning on it. It looked VERY nasty on radar. I took this pic as it approached town. It was the most impressive shelf/wall cloud I’ve seen in a while. I’ve got some more in my Flickr account.

Talk about a wild day. And YESTERDAY was Friday the 13th. LOL

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I love storms. I have for as long as I can remember. And I love taking pictures of the clouds. There are some weak thunderstorms moving through the area tonite. I looked out my window and saw these shelf clouds. I had to take pictures of them. I used the widescreen setting of my camera and snapped these from my balcony.

I’m hoping that I’ll be able to get some good storm pics this summer. I’ll just have to wait and see what sort of weather rolls in around here. Of course I’ll share any good pics I manage to get.

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I decided to buy myself some flowers at the grocery store tonite. I love carnations. These mini ones are adorable.

I need to play around with the settings on my camera more. I wish I had more photography experience to take advantage of it. But this pic still turned out really nice, in my opinion.

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This is one of the first pics I’ve taken with my new camera (Canon SD1100IS), outside of my apartment that is.

This is a picture from the weigh scale along I-29 just north of Highway 13 (in ND).

This image is 50% of the original. I love my new camera

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From way up top.

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I went for a walk today with Robin and Dannilynn. We walked and Dannilynn chilled in the stroller.

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I thought it was spring. I mean … we did have 60 degree weather last week. Now we get this winter weather? I think Mother Nature forgot her meds.