This is a little pic I put together for the staff members that "Beaverified" my office on the day before the Civil War game. They put that flag up over the office window and now it is in "enemy" hands.

Old Places and Old Friends

Ricks Days - One is a pic from good ole Greenbrier apartments in Rexburg, Idaho. Home to Dan, Steve, Shirlene, Caleb, John Harwood, me and probably some others. Its also where I met Shirlene and fell in love. In the other pic you get Steve Hogan and me enjoying some great Mexican food at Rigobertos, the best dang tacos in America, or Redmond at least.

I'm dreaming of a white Madras...

Who said it never snows in Madras. Top two pics are getting christmas tree last year and the other is a nice snow sitting on our house in December.

In The Mountains

Here are some pics from a couple summers ago. On the left, this is about 12,000 feet with my dad up in the Flat Fops Wilderness where he works as the District Ranger. On the right, Ally, Harry, Camille and myself hiked up in the Jefferson Wilderness. With the exception of Allison cutting her leg, two wasp bites to Harrison and Camille and a guy drowning in the lake next to us it went great :)

Glutony Illustrated

Okay - Here are a couple more pictures of good food I have made recently to stoke your appetite. We Adams love good food and love making good food. Check back more for posts on what tastes great.

Picture 1: Greek Lamb and Potatoes (actually looked better than it tasted, nasty New Zealand Lamb!).

Picture 2: Hot Pastrami Sandwich. We fell in love with these in NY a couple summers ago and now love to make them if we can get out hands on good fatty pastrami. I even ordered some overnight from a deli in NY one time.

Picture 3: My attempt at Grandma Sandy's famous valentine cookies. They were great and were about a foot across. Hard to pick up, but fun to eat!

Jacob, Jacoby and Allison http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Profile=1001&ExpNodes=1001&Category=NEWS01

Saturday, November 17th was a big day around our little berg of Madras. Our "Hometown Hero," Jacoby Ellsbury, came home for a parade through town and then a big celebration in the HS gymnasium with approx. 2500 people. By chance it was also a big day for our "In-home hero," Jacob. It was his sixth birthday. The Mayor declared Nov. 17 to be Jacoby Ellsbury Day and we thought it was pretty cool that that is also Jacob's birthday.

Adding to the fun - Allison was on the cover of the Bend Newspaper, The Bulletin, in a picture associated with the Jacoby Ellsbury Parade and Celebration. Check out the article with the following link (its also hyperlinked) and click on the article about Jacoby and then click on the tab next to his picture that says "More Photos" for the picture of Allison: http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Profile=1001&ExpNodes=1001&Category=NEWS01

Jacoby is a product of our town and actually was active in our church when he was younger and now he is the center fielder for the Boston Red Sox and was, arguably, the best player in the World Series. The whole town loves him as you can imagine.