Paul Visits...and installs my door knocker!

Well the door knocker wasn't the only thing Paul did for my house. He also put up my medicine cabinet and helped me move furniture. Be careful when you come to visit me, I might put you to work :)

The knocker is an antique and a special housewarming present from my family. It's a good match for the photo at the bottom that I took in Spain. I love my new, old door knocker!

Katie

Mountain Climbing

When I was a kid Monkey bars were my favorite playground play thing. I have never attempted mountain climbing before, but there's this climbing wall downtown on the street and I've seen people climbing it all the time. I've seen little kids scamper up the thing like it was nothing. So I figured, if they can do that, so can I. I'm in pretty good shape. How hard could it be?

Well let me tell you, it's hard! Paul and I went to tackle the rock climbing wall when he was visiting here and at least he made it half way up the thing, I couldn't even go that far. My forearms and hands were like jello. I tried a few times, but the longer I climbed, the more my strength waned. I finally had to call it quits for the big wall outside. I felt a little better when I made it to the top of a wall that was inside and wasn't leaning out at an angle. I would love to do it again, but I think I will have to strengthen my armpit muscles. That's right, I said armpit muscles. Did you know you have muscles in your armpits? Well you do, and if you go rock climbing you will realize that they are there the next day.

Katie

Portraits

I did a photo session a while back with Russ Bowen, a news anchor and reporter at the station. Russ and I worked together nights when I was a news editor. He was volunteering at a charity dinner and needed a photo to help promo the event. We had a fun time shooting. Russ is great in front of the camera, its no wonders he’s a good anchor.

I managed to get a photo of Dave while I was at it. Dave is the guy I work with in promotions. You may remember him from a previous chronicle I did when we were shooting a promo in Brevard. He stands in front of a camera with the same reluctance a child would display going to the dentist. I only convinced him to stand in for me because I needed help adjusting my lights for Russ’s shoot. I got one really awesome shot of him that I really like, but that’s as much of a smile as I could get out of him.

Katie

Kyle Visits

Kyle came up for a visit from Florida and we went berry picking at Graveyard fields. It was the perfect day for it and we had a beautiful drive on the parkway once we got past the fog. Kyle was the first guest to stay in the guest room of my new house. I have more chronicles to come so stay tuned.

Katie