
Happy New Year!
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. ~Robert Collier

After being captured and then recaptured, the highly prized sixteenth century, handmade replica, Nicaraguan Vase has found a secure & happy home as our center piece. A center piece of our collection and our lives.

It is hard to conceptualize but life first appeared on land about 350 years ago. Therefore, if we take one year and make it an inch, life first appeared on land roughly 5,523 miles ago, about two oil changes on a car. Still looking for something a bit more tangible, let us say then that 1 year equals 1 millimeter that would be 217 miles, just short of one and a half roundtrips to San Francisco from Stockton. Still to big and cannot think millimeters easily, let us take recorded history and make it an inch long. Recorded History is about 7000 years. Therefore, that is 350 million years ago divided by 7000 years of recorded history, which makes 50,000 inches or 0.78 miles ago. That is 3 times around the track. Next time you look at an inch you can look at it as you wish; an inch given and inch taken. Question is which are you going to do.

Gift Giving\Gift Getting, getting a gift to give to Conner. I would love to get a gift, a simple gift that could be given. A gift of time. Time with Stefania & Sara...

And the Reindeer Games are ON!ยก!
Remember, it's not about how many bulbs you have, just make sure that you do.

Our Angel Snowman Lawn Art!
We're wondering if he's going to go for a walk or will he decide to stay for the holidays :~\

It's amazing and so wonderful; thou it's an educated guess, we are celebrating that the Tyke is now four months & a day along.

Sometimes a day seem like a fleeting memory, even when the day is not even over yet; having your mind inside a system and then realized the day has gone by. It's amazing where we chose to case the sands from our hourglass knowing that many of us have passed on and many more have joined us. So many moments, so much time, fleeting though that it is.