Casa de Collins

  Five Lakes Basin, NorCal, Circa 2000  After one month of Esa's absence I am finally able to write this post. During these days I have concluded the following; our lives will never be the same, I am a better person for having had her as a companion for nearly 15 years, the knot in my chest is

An insightful friend recently asked me "why do you run?" Sensing it is obviously more than just a fitness fetish for me and many of her running relatives, I replied "it is not about the running." She gave me a thoughtful glance, fraught with more questions, she was not ready to articulate. I simply

Alas, I am taking a minute to finally update our blog: I have been GOOFING off a great deal. So, here are a flurry of pictures from our Fall, 2011 adventures: The frenzy of DisneyWorld & The Disney Cruise, the Collins' Sleepy Hollow Halloween bash and last but not least the finale of White Trash Ca

Loyal WTC Followers, here we are again, in the the wilderness tempting fate and challenging or limited scientific expertise! Once our trailer was repaired (?) we headed to 10, 800 feet, to the Magdalena Ranger District and Langmuir Lightning Observatory. I have been anxious to return to this gorgeo

We headed to Red River with a perfectly decent tent trailer. Then I had to make things interesting by neglecting to unlatch the hardtop. Thanks to a few foul words, beer and a 2x4 we were able to prop up the busted end and spend the weekend in the ghetto trailer you see before you. White Trash 100%.

Summer, thus far, has been a blast! Look at these pictures and they tell the story of a wildly successful 40Th Surprise Party for Eric-yep, he was totally shocked and cried like a baby. (The older photos' were part and parcel of a hilarious slide show focusing upon Eric's mullet affliction!

We have had quite a spring-beginning and ending with fun and friends. Easter brought two Easter Egg hunts, a basket to find on the tractor, annual fire truck ride, hugs with Smokey and plenty of wind for kite flying or crashing as it evolved! School ends this week and then my world gets rocked! We

Finally, a new blog post, following more than two months of utter chaos at our place! We are just now finding our own ass as we recover from it being handed to us-repeatedly: 1) Six weeks of extreme pain on Eric's part to culminate in the emergency removal of the most disgusting gallbladder to date.

Fargo is a film about a small town chock-full of people who have been indoors for too long during yet another long Dakota winter; the townspeople get very agitated and begin to engage in very odd and often dangerous behavior. Ruidosoans' experienced a small taste of this over the last three weeks o

Happy Holidays! We had a handful of Warrens' and the Collins' to our house for a four-day-baking-eating-drinking and gaming extravaganza! Rarely changing clothes, we just rotated between outfits-those with flour on them and those dribbled with liquor.Homemade cinnamon rolls, peanut brittle, pepperm