You may not believe this story. I didn't, and I was there taking the picture!!!

I stopped at this mailbox on Knipe Rd. Ahead of me about 1/4 mile was this small deer. I zoomed in on her and was taking her picture. she kept coming slowly towards me. In the end, she stuck her head right in my window. I was sitting on the passenger side (to deliver mail) and had to move back some in order to get the picture. She stuck her head right next to mine. After getting this "in the window shot", I slowly stuck my hand out and rubbed her nose. It was wet and cold....just like a dog's nose. I pet her head, then she walked toward the back of my car and I drove away. It just made my day. Can you imagine how upset I would have been if I hadn't brought my camera along today?

If anyone happens to see one of my photos in the Times Recorder, please let me know. I have had them published in there before and not realized it.

I took the kids to the place where the deer stuck her head in my window. I really didn't think we would see the deer again, but Emma spotted her up in the field. I pulled the car over and got out of the car. The kids got out too. We walked around the car and the deer came running to us. We brought apples with us, but she was not interested in apples. She just wanted us to pet her.

Quote from Emma: "this is the best day of my life".

Quote from Rebecca: "I am so attached to her already".

This is not that great of a picture, but I love the colors!

shopping trip.

Just a couple more snow and ice pictures.

I went out to mom's on Feb 15th and tooks some pictures. I am posting a few of them. Jim and the girls and I went snowboarding for the first time on Valentines day. There was a lot of falling down! I didn't get any pictures because I was afraid I would fall and land on my camera.

I was supposed to start Adult Education night classes tonight but they were cancelled due to this snow storm. I was taking a 4 week coarse on how to use my Adobe Photoshop. Oh well.

The post office called a little bit ago and I have to make a 170 mile trip for them around Woodsfield, Caldwell, Barnesville, Byesville, and Quaker City. I think I will start out an hour early to leave myself some safe travel time (and picture taking time).

What a day I've had. I spent 6 hours trying to opt-out of the union. This is the second year in a row that I have tried to do this. Last year I was given the wrong information which held me up until it was past my anniversary date. So I have been paying dues all year for something that I was getting nothing out of. This year I started earlier to leave myself enough time and again I was given the wrong information. I am begining to think that I might be a life time member.

Here is a duck picture that I took by the Y bridge.

I love pictures. I love to look at other peoples pictures. I could spend all day on flickr.com. I hardly ever post a blog. So I am going to give it a try.

I am a mail carrier for the usps. I am considered part time, but I get full time hours. Ever have one of those jobs?? I am on-call until 9am every morning. Even Sundays. Did you know that express mail is still delivered on Sundays? I run a regular 70 mile route on Saturdays and any other day that my regular carrier takes off. Some Sundays I do express mail. Monday thru Friday I pick up mail at surrounding post offices and bring it back to Zanesville to be processed. I get called just about everyday to do this. The plus side of this job is the pay and that Mon-Fri, and Sundays are days spent traveling. Sometimes I go 200 miles! I found places in Ohio that have never been discovered by anyone else! I have stopped to ask inmates from the penatentuary for directions. I have delivered human ashes. I have been kissed (on the mouth) at the mailbox. I have driven over a bridge for weeks without knowing that a womans body was underneith. I have walked into a crematorium and saw uncovered naked bodies on guerneys. I guess you could say that my job is not boring.

me

Jim and Stephen (our nephew)

our oldest

our youngest

A fellow postal employee makes these Raku Pottery ornaments. I got one as a gift from a friend. I took this picture and then played around with the photo on Adobe.

winter friends.