Salon makes the case for why last year’s products make great gifts this year.
Recess gets tamed, and parents take a stand.
Road to the Holidays
Photos from around the house between Thanksgiving and Christmas, including a few snaps from Dennis and Taran’s most amazing Christmas party!
Thanksgiving and a walk through Swanson’s
Mary and Brian’s wedding
Benched!
Ellie puts on her modeling face, and lounges around on her patio bench during our Memorial day bbq yesterday.
A very funny video of rejected WiiPlay games, with a website that could win the award for most accurate Commodore 64 startup screen.
Ellie’s first Christmas
Ellieween!
Photos of Ellie in her Halloween costume, a few days late as she was under the weather on Halloween — next year, we trick-or-treat twice.
Victoria BC, 3 – 5 September 2005
Well, so there’s a little bit of victoria, but mostly a pregnant Tracy, voted best-looking pregnant woman, ever. By me, and three formerly pregnant women she’s met! And that counts.
Parrotstock!
Pictures from Parrotstock, home of the 2005 Ortlieb family reunion. My Uncle Bill is the bass player for the band The Rock-A-Fellas, and played Friday night in lovely Myrtle Beach, SC.
Site of the Ortlieb mini-reunion: Myrtle Beach, SC, June 9-12, 2005
Happy Mortieween!
Happy Mortieween after-a-hard-day’s-rockin’ department! My first Halloween in San Francisco, with an obligatory trip to the Castro and a gaggle of friends from Seattle.
Mortie and unidentified Skynyrd fan.
From left to right: Magnum PI, Nancy Sinatra, Annie Oakley, Green Lantern, Mortie; in the front row, Clara as the Death of Disco.
Kimmay, Carrie Anne, Mortie, Digo and Aliah.