Chrissy's Photo A Day

Our house was in the paper today!!! The article is really good too, but it has our names in it. If you are a friend and want to read the ar...

I melted something in the dryer today. It stuck all over the back of the dryer and I had to use tongs, fingernails, and a scrub brush to...

Can you see the birds in the tree over there? Dan and I went for a late afternoon walk after I had a productive writing day. We returne...

I had to teach this evening so I spent the morning reading an interesting memoir, then worked some from home, then went into work after ...

Root received the Buffalo slippers I made for him and sent me a photo. Perfect fit, made to order. Except, he requested beavers and ...

Today I got my first Mac! It's old and needs some updating, but it was free to me to use in my office. I hope to learn how to make ...

Woke after a night of thunder and lightning to discover that tornadoes were ravaging Alabama again. After destroying homes and lives in ...

Tonight we attended our friend's 50th birthday bash with musicians galore. There was a bass, a violin, three guitars, a ukelele, and an...

Two days of meetings concludes with a three hour training of our site leaders and facilitators. It went swimmingly. We left town afterwa...

Five hour trip over the mountains to Blacksburg today for an NSF sponsored team meeting and workshop to kick off our grant. Crocheted a ...

The photographer came today to take pictures of our house for the newspaper article. I kept wishing he would take a photo of me sitting on ...

Penguin ice cubes! An article I got accepted into a journal is in "the galleys" which means last minute revisions. The editor wan...

Friday the 13th. It snowed today! Just a bit, but it was pretty. Today was supposed to be my writing day, but I got a call early in the mor...

Taught my graduate class this evening, Engineering in STEM Education. Students built boats, towers, bridges, and roller coasters, seeing ho...

We have a bald cypress tree out front and the bark is so textured and beautiful. The colors are rich and the feeling is like basket weaving...

I am working on an afghan. This is how far I got today working on it in bed with the second day of migraine. I had to miss my department me...

Dan took down the Christmas decorations today. The vacation is almost over. I got a migraine last night and spent all day in bed with it to...

Walk at dusk with Aza and Frisbee and Dan. We took Jes to the airport at noon today- house feeling quiet and empty without her. The parki...

Yes, I made these. Aren't they adorable? I started last night and woke up really early and got them finished. They are a gift for my f...

Today I really tried hard to work all day. Aza had some work to do, Jes had some work to do, and so I sat at my computer putting out email ...

Aza's turn at getting some slippers. Can you guess what they are? Tree frogs! I made her tree frog slippers with wobbly eyes.

Today I was SO sleepy. It felt like a blanket of fatigue just settled over me and enshrouded me with yawns and the desire to close my eyes....

Today I finished the bunny slippers for Jes. Aren't they cute?!?! We went for a nice walk in the arboretum around dusk- a beautiful...

Sunset on 2011. Photo taken from the roof outside my bedroom window. Today was a quiet day since Dan and the chirren were hiking and rock...

Woke up this morning and made these cute shark fin slippers for a nephew. So cute! Spent the morning with my mom, drove her to the airport,...

Hooray for apple pie (crust made by Aza, filling made by Mags)! Hooray for the first flowers of winter! Hooray for Nana visiting and for R...

Made myself this awesome hat from yarn I bought at Shaker Village. We went to Berea today with Mom to do some putzing around. Loved Powder...