Daily Photo: January 5, 2010

If you could see the fireplace, this would make a lot more sense.

If you could see the fireplace, this would make a lot more sense.

Shelby loved sitting and sleeping in front of a fire. He’d lay there until he couldn’t take the heat anymore, move to a colder part of the room to cool off, and then come right back.

Daily Photo: December 15, 2010

All ready for Christmas…wait! Who’s that hiding behind them?

Our first Christmas in New Jersey. We only had a small apartment at the time, so our tree was ever so small. Still – in the immortal words of Red Dwarf, wherever you go, there you are.

Daily Photo: July 28, 2011

The tadpole that never grew up.

Last summer, a department at my wife’s university were doing research with a number of bullfrog tadpoles. They were going to ‘dispose’ of them, so we brought one home. In the end, sadly, he didn’t make it. I’m not sure whether it was a lack of friendship, poorly/overly oxygenated water, or if he was of a weak disposition to start with. We were very saddened.