House News

2006

August 7 - Last night I finally gave into the temptation to make my own spelt doughnuts. Contrary to what you might think, spelt makes very decent baked goods and junk food replacements. We bought a deep fryer, made up some dough, and had a lovely fry up on Sunday night. We invited the neighbors and a few friends and fried away. Here are a few photos of the fun.

January - Deva and Soken's Wedding Snapshots from LA

We are really hoping that 2006 will be a little calmer than 2005. We need some rest.

2005

Our year in brief

It was an incredibly busy year. It all began with Carl traveling a lot for work and far too many house repairs that all started out as just trying to fix our ceilings. Carl traveled for work the first quarter of the year, then went to Peru. Take a look at Carl's pictures of Peru from his April visit.

Lys sat at home in the destroyed house and managed to be sick nearly the entire first four months of the year.

We got wonderful Electra Bikes in time for Carl's birthday and spent the summer riding around looking for trouble.

Things picked up when we started planning our trip to Italy, but we were sidetracked with Carl's hernia surgery.

Two out of town weddings in September.

October we traveled to Italy. It was wonderful (photos to come). Carl's first trip to Europe was a success, although we realized we have very different traveling styles (as could be imagined by any of you who know us).

November 7th our new nephew arrived a few weeks after our return from Italy.

Thanksgiving came and 17 people were planned for dinner (12 showed). Lys's mom and dad came to stay for a week and buy a condo!

Christmas Carl's mom came to visit for a few weeks We got to play Shanghai Rummy which made us all very happy.

New Years was spent at the Oriental Theater watching Devotchka.

We packed up and went to LA for Deva and Soken's wedding.