Homestead At the Wood: and Three Weeks Roll on By..........

Yep, we've been a bit busy. Well, more tired than anything. Work has kicking both our behinds - and hard. A few little side projects have eaten up pretty much any spare time we've had outside of work, hence, the lack of posts on here recently. Let me assure you, however, all is well. We're just..........tired. So, here's a quick rundown of what we've been up to, that is, if I can part this haze that has enveloped my brain this evening and remember that far back.

In no chronolgical order due to the difficulty I'm having thinking, here we go:

1) Last week was spent in Berchtesgaden. We didn't ski, but we did get out for a winter boatride on the Konigsee, did a bit of sledding and were able to take a few long hikes in the deep snow. Overall, a really good weekend.

2) I've started working on a website to help out other gout sufferers who like to lead an active lifestyle. The template for the site is pretty much done, but there is still a lot of information to get down and reorganization to go through. I hope to work on this some more next week and have it up on the internets sometime in the next month.

3) I haven't done any writing or editing recently, but have been thinking a lot about it. This may sound bad, but I'm waiting for Dawn to be away on her work trip in two weeks so I can come home from my day job and really start hacking away at the manuscript. There is a lot to be done on this still and I will likely have to re-write a lot of it in order to achieve a more focussed direction and to make it more topical. It all does kind of tie in with the website, but they can be worked on independently.

4) Pictures. I'm always working on pictures, reading about perfecting the craft and doing my best to adhere to practice some of the techniques and procedures I read about. I also just started working on a photo website gallery today which took a lot of preparation time the last couple of weeks. Here is a link to the preliminary site: http://www.frozenriverphotography.com/ Many of the pictures will be changed - right now, many of them are just placeholders.

5) Dawn has done a lot of baking the last couple of weeks using her new bakeware she just received. She's made some darn good cookies and cakes as of late and luckily, she takes most of her creations to her office.

6) Dawn has also been traveling for work a lot more recently. This has really cut in to her free time and her time at home. After a long drive to and from the office and a full day at work and then cooking dinner (she refuses to let me cook - I wonder why?), it doesn't leave a lot of time for much else. Well, she has been putting in a lot of time planning our trip back to the States this summer and fighting my insurance company to get the money back that they owe me. That has not been fun.

7) We did our taxes

I'm sure I'm missing a lot in there, but I'm tired, dinner is almost finished, and we're going to spend tonight relaxing and watching a movie. We haven't done that for some time now. It sounds good to me!

The pictures from the trip to Berchtesgaden can be found HERE Here are a few samples:

Our ski carrier