What do I know.

This is the situation. Several years ago when I was a senior in high school and thought I was going to get married as soon as I graduated, even though I wasn't dating anyone, I bought a large collection of chicken dishes. I thought, at the time, that these were the cutest dishes I had ever seen, and as new independent adult, how could I not want them. Some have chickens, some are green, some are blue, and some are checkered, they're perfect, right. So here I am, ten years later, and these dishes have been dumped in my garage from my parents old house, since they are currently homeless. This is the dilemma, what should I do with the chicken dishes. There are dinner plates and bowls, small plates and soup mugs, a pitcher and mugs, serving platter, serving bowl, giant bowl, small, med and large canisters, and even a spoon rest and fancy tile for hot things. It is a massive, massive collection. Who would have guessed that something you picked out ten years ago might not be some

I LOVE Seattle!! My work sent me there just before Thanksgiving for a Water Quality Conference. I almost crashed on the way into the city because the skyline was so beautiful at night. The rain made me homesick for Oregon, I walked around in it for hours and hours. It was very very hard to come home. The conference was kind of blah. So I have lots of pictures of the other places I went. =) Thanks, South Jordan! Pike's Place Market was awesome. I could have sat there all day watching people. If only the pig out front had a cushioned seat on top. I saw the World Famous Pike's Place Fish Market, with the World Famous fish mongers who love their job. I even bought one of their books, they threw it around to each other like it was a fat salmon and signed it for me. It was awesome!....the book is actually pretty good too. My hotel was only a few blocks from the market, so it was basically walking distance to every where. I saw all kinds of neat little tourist things and ev