big drewps

Drew is now 10, is taking guitar lessons from Daddy (and doing great!), shot a grouse this year hunting with a shotgun, loves to read and doing great with home-schooling.
-John

from drew

[From Drew awhile ago] It's nice to know your son loves you... :)
-John

stoplight in the water

I love light in water at night....
-John

purple mud

There's no such thing as playdough with unique colors in the schwartzcats home. Boo (Rebecah) loves to mix all the colors together which makes a real nice shade of purple. I notice this batch has just about reached that point. :)
-John

queen o' the yarn

Annie learning to knit.
-John

peppermint mocha

At one of my many satellite offices today. :) Peppermint is back on the menu (shazam).
-John

got webbed feet?

Ha! Dixon just took in for seven big ones on 4th and 5 from the 40. Not looking good for the home team, baby.

First drive for Arizona - interception!

Well... got my 15 minutes of espn coverage of the game. We'll see what happens manyana. Off to better things (reading to kids, talking with wife, etc). :)

2 hours later... amazing.

One moment you're a Heisman candidate, sitting at #2 in the nation... the next you're out for the season with a leg injury and your team probably loses the rest of their games.

I'm glad I only spent 15 minutes watching!
-John

lucky dog

[Photo from Zach!] That's one charmed dog. I'm pretty sure polar bears don't typically frolic with canines. :)

jason in the house

My bro Jason discussin Jesus with me by the fire...

yummy squash

Yummy squash from this year's garden... you either like this stuff or hate it. All the schwartzcats fight over it. :)

i just had to

This photo made me laugh.

Life is full of paradox isn't it? My family uses all kinds of nicknames based off cats (kitty, mew, kittens, etc, etc) and yet I have little love for cats. They think they're king, don't fetch you anything, don't smile and dig up my garden areas.

As the saying goes, "A good cat is a..." :)

teddy is driving

Abbie says, "teddy thinks he's driving, but really i'm pushing."

tired snail

Time for bed...

removing the header

hey folks... i noticed you can get to trash quite quickly with the "next blog" link in the header. if you need help removing that header (as i have done), just let me know. i found out a slick way here. remember to save a link to your dashboard (http://www.blogger.com/home) so you can login/edit your blog as some of that functionality is in the missing header. :)

help mommy

Stuck in a bottle, she says, "help mommy".

compostin

Compost is cookin. The goal? 140 degrees of breakin-down-goodness.

at the office

Zach at "the office" with me this morning. :)

song on my mind

A little song from Waterdeep has been on my mind.... taught it to kids last week:

You have redeemed my soul
From the pit of emptiness
You have redeemed my soul
From death

I was a hungry child
A dried up river
I was a burned out forest
And no one could do anything for me

But you put food in my body
Water in my dry bed
And to my blackened branches you brought the
Springtime rain of new life
And nothing is impossible for you

-John

my kitty

My kitty

the boys

One last post for today to get this blog up and rolling. The boys and I
at the Timbers game (soccer) and one of my lovely bride Christy, from
whence all things "cat" or "kitty" come from.

blazers

At the blazers game... Go ODEN!

the girls and i

My first post to the blog. Ya, I know, I'm a web guy and don't have a
blog yet. Well, issue resolved. :)