Icicles Bigger Than Bethany!

Saw these icicles in Kanab when I went down to help my dad with his bar-code scanner. There's a lot of icicles in town, but this one gets the gold star! :)

Anyway, I thought it was blog-worthy.

Latex Larry Foiled by Snow!

This just in!

No one is fooled by the fake cop if it looks like he's been sitting in his car for a couple of days watching the snow melt.

/XP

Something Funny for the Holidays

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Black Widows Everywhere

I don't mean to frighten anyone, but just be on the lookout. We have black widows all over St. George.

This was reconfirmed for me last week when I went to gas up my car. I found a colony of hundreds of baby black widows. Some of them were even on the pump handle!

You may have seen a baby black widow yourself and not known it, so I'm going to post some pictures of them below. I won't make you look at them though, so you'll have to click on the links to see them.

Tiny spiderlets have almost no color when they are born.

Juviniles all have the hourglass shape on their abdomens, but it always starts out white.

Males have a distinctive pattern on their abdomen. They also have the hourglass shape, but I don't think it ever turns red.

Immaturity

Thought this was pretty funny:

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GIMP skills improving

Who knew that you could actually do something relatively artistic with the GIMP? I know nobody who reads this (does anybody read this?) would even know what GIMP is, but let me tell you, it's a pretty nice alternative to Photoshop.
(Photoshop = $300-$600 | GIMP = $0)

For a while now, I've been trying to figure out how to do useful stuff with GIMP. I've had a few sick days from work, and I have come up with this wallpaper. I think it turned out pretty good. . . . well, anyway, I care. /:]

We Have Snail Sign!

It appears that we have dozens of snails living near our apartment. I haven't gotten a chance to snap a picture until now (they generally only come out at night, kinda hard to take photos).

I named this one "Lucky," or something --- okay, I didn't name any of them, but they are lucky we don't step on them whenever we go by them on the walkway.

Did I mention they had kinda wierd shells? I've never seen snails with that kind of shell.

Anyway, I though this was somewhat noteworthy.

ARRRRR! These be my new glasses, says I!

There was a slight mix-up at the optical shop.
My mother-in-law, Janet, says she's never seen anything like this in all the years she's worked at the optical shop. /:]
One side of my new glasses is transition lens, the other side is normal.
Now I look like a pirate wherever I go :)

I got these glasses last week and didn't notice anything strange (it was cloudy all day the next day).
It was only when Bethany and I decided to go for a walk a couple days after, that we noticed this.

Halloween - Ninja vs. Zuko

This is what we dressed up as this halloween. Bethany was a ninja, and I was Zuko from Avatar. You'd think Avatar was a pretty popular show, but almost nobody knew who I was or had ever heard of Zuko and Avatar: The Last Air-Bender

I forgot to post this picture. As you can see, there's all his little insides. :)

Tiny lizard in our house

Found this little guy in our house. Almost stepped on him when we were walking out the door to go shopping.
He was way tiny, and kinda cute. Not all that fast for a lizard, though, he was really easy to catch, and it took some coaxing just to get off our hands onto the ground. :) He's also very see-through. We could see his little heart and everything when we put him up in the sun.

New Apartment!

Here it is, the new apartment. Well, it's not the whole thing, but this is one of the funner parts.

Update: Toby thinks I ought to have more pictures. I must agree :) So without further ado

I have also attempted to create a "photosynth" of the place. Click here to see it (you will have to install the photosynth software, but it's well worth it, not really for looking at my place, but there's all kinds of cool stuff to look at)

We're moving again :)

We found us a cozy townhouse that we'll be renting. We're in the middle of moving as I am typing this. /:]
I'll be sure to post pictures or something soon.

Toby's Married

Bethany's brother, Toby Cramer, got married to Nicole Summerhays this summer on Aug 16. :)

Molly's Married

My wife's sister, Molly, just got married to Tom Whiting in the St. George, Utah LDS Temple for time and all eternity. This was on June 21st. Happy times :)

Update:Been moved for a couple months now

Forgot to mention that we have finished moving, and have already been living with Bethany's parents for a couple months now. Lisa is home and is now working at Wilson Electronics.

I will be graduating on May 2nd at 6:00p.m. in the Burns Arena.

Moving...

Well, we're in the process of moving out of my parents' house, and into Bethany's parents' house. Lisa (my sister) is coming home soon off her mission, and she's going to need a place to stay at my parents'. When the move is over, I'll update this.