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158/365 - Tuesday
The Sacramento City Council meets every Tuesday. Every June the City Manager must present and the Council must approve a balanced budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The past few years have been very tough with layoffs, furloughs, and the reduction of services for citizens. This night the council was hearing the public safety budget, taken while I was working in the media room. It was a long night, full of difficult choices.

159/365 - Wednesday
It was a long Tuesday night, didn't leave work until 2330ish. Had my first taste of a Hemi Sammy from Drewski's Hot Rod Kitchen Food Truck and I swear I dreamt about it. Today when I was walking Colton at lunch time I came around the corner on the way to the farmers market and there... like a beacon... Drewski's.

This is the Hemi. It is a grilled cheese will pulled pork and macaroni and cheese - IN THE SANDWICH!!! oh and did I mention the garlic rosemary tater tots. yep.

160/365 - Thursday
I got an email from Unleashed (a little boutique pet store by Petco) that said they have chuck-in brand toys on sale for 20% off. I have been wanting to get this shark-fin floaty thing for Sabina to play with in the pool. Can you imagine my surprise when I went in and the ones I wanted were on clearance for $2 + 20% off and then buy 3 get one free. Did I mention that this size is usually $11. Sabina scored.

161/365 - Friday
I spent the afternoon with my ladies who lunch at a little puppy pool party. Good to catch up with everyone outside of puppy class (where we aren't supposed to talk and i get in trouble) and let the pups play. This was probably Sabina's last big outing before the big day. Less than two weeks now till puppies.

154-157/365 Weekend Wrap Up

Here is the weekend catch - up!

154/365 Friday - Out and about with the a class of aspiring service dogs.

155/365 Saturday - The only good part of our rainy day garage sale; re-do this weekend!

156/365 Sunday - Not the shot I was looking for, but the only one our very pregnant girl was going to put up with. She has the - seriously one more picture - look down pat!

157/365 Monday - June 6, 1944 the invasion of Normandy began. This flag hangs in our home, a gift from my sister who is in the US Army. This flag flew on one of her missions in the Middle East. Although the American Memorial Day has come and gone, a special thank you to the military forces of just and democratic countries who have given their lives in the name of freedom.

152 & 153/365 Getting closer to the 1/2 way mark

Damn impressed I have made it this far!

152/365 Wednesday UC Davis Medical Center

153/365 Thursday Bath Bubbles - I can't believe I am slipping into a steaming hot bubble bath in the middle of a Sacramento summer. More rain predicted thru the weekend and temperatures that are almost 20 degrees below the norm.

143-151/365 Another Week In Pictures

Happy to report still plugging along snapping shots everyday. I feel like I am still learning and am certainly still having fun. I am not however up for posting everyday. I want to spend more time taking pictures than processing and quite frankly life has been so busy that I just a) don't feel like doing the picture processing each night b) I am too busy to fit it in each night and meet my other obligations and well c) sometimes it is a bit of both.

Here is too another weeks worth of pictures.

143/365 - Monday

I don't often get to shoot people, still not super confident about just asking random people to take their picture. This was at a class a co-worker was teaching.

144/365 - Tuesday
Quick bite out at a favorite dinner spot Peasano's. This is a chain art installation that hangs from the ceiling.

145/365 - Wednesday
It's here!!!! This is my new Cricut Expressions - a lovely little anniversary gift from my hubby for our anniversary. Had to wait until he got a new job - so happy anniversary and happy new job!

146/365 - Thursday
This is Bernie, he - yes you have heard it before - is an aspiring service dog. This was taken at our weekly puppy class. Considering the difficulty photographing black dogs, pretty happy with this one.

147/365 - Friday
It is county fair time!

148/365 - Saturday
Rain, really? It is summer in Sacramento, not Portland.

149/365 - Sunday
We snuck away to the City for the day, and it was lovely. Went to the Walt Disney Family museum, which was beautifully done. Then a quick dinner at the best little spot in Emeryville - Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe!

150/365 - Monday
I love to see what people put on their fridges. You wouldn't know it to look at it, but I prefer NOTHING on the fridge. Okay I can live with the big calendar, but everything else that I could leave. However you may notice the ultrasound pics... yep - Sabina is pregnant. We will be having a litter of aspiring service dogs in June.

151/365 - Tuesday
Ever wonder were all those tickets come from? The ticket store of course.

A week at a glance: 136-142/365

I am still taking pictures everyday, but in my effort to get up and out (combined with a crazy workweek and migraine) I did not manage to post everyday. The best part of that is that I am okay with that. Here is my week in review!

136/365 - Monday night met up with some friends to work on a class we will be presenting. These little guys live in my friend's kitchen. She has probably had them forever, she has had them as long as I have known her. They make me smile.

137/365 - I don't particularly care for this picture, but because I got in trouble for taking it I am posting it. I was at puppy class in the mall and saw this very cool sculpture in a store window, when a sale associate came out and told me I  couldn't take a picture. When I asked why he said "if you don't believe me you can ask the manager." I didn't bother. (PS This isn't even what the store sells, it was a display rack...geeze)

138/365 - I swear our dog Sabina would swim in the arctic sea if we would let her, right in the middle of their winter. While it isn't even close to being that cold here right now, it certainly is too cold for me. She could stand there and shake all day and still need two or three towels to get her dry enough to come into the house.

139/365 - A little flower that was hiding under the patio furniture cover. Apparently it prefers the shade!

140/365 - In my attempt to reduce the dog pictures, these are dog shadows at a early evening puppy class. 

141/365 - Well it is after 6pm and not only did we survive the rapture, so did this evil little guy hanging around by the front door. He is obeying the rules (I live inside, bugs live outside the dwelling), so he will live to see another day and hopefully eat some other bugs that may not be so willing to abide by the rules.

142/365 - Come on summer - I dare you!

135/365 Where the pictures live pt II

More than a few posts ago I showed you where the pictures that aren't stuck inside my computer or a scrapbook live - well at least the color photos. I have a whole other collection of b&w family photos. B&W photography is my favorite and what drew me to photography to begin with. I have a romantic nostalgia for these pictures. I think that they are much like a book where I imagine what things look like. In a black and white I have to imagine the colors hidden in the shades of grey. I also appreciate that the time and expense of these old photos, that there were generally not the resources to shoot off 300 or 400 pictures hoping for the right one. Besides wedding photos, the b&w I love the most are the posed pictures where someone "dared" to smile... my favorites have smiles.

134/365 Still trying not to complain

I am trying to find something good about the day that the weather ruined. I hate the wind and it is cold. Apparently someone for got to turn on the furness it is May in Sacramento for crying out-loud.

This is starting to sound a little like complaining...lets try again.

Was driving home this morning and saw all of these flags. Kept thinking about them all day and decided to go back. I was in luck that the wind was in full force and presented this great shot. Thank you mother nature.