While I'm flattered, what you're doing is misleading and, well, stealing.

So there's a webmaster named "Rob" over at www.bifem.net who trolls photo sites for self-portraits and then posts them to his website hoping to boost interest. Apparently he stole and posted one of mine recently. I've got a couple feelings about this:

1. Flattered that I'd be potentially hot enough for the lady crowd. Let's be honest.
2. Dumb for not protecting my images somehow. I'm not savvy enough yet to know how to do this properly. it seems like it's pretty easy to copy and paste images even if you have all rights reserved or something like that.
3. "Rob" is a baaad webmaster for misleading his bi-ladies like that.
4. Like a Virgin again. Who would have guessed that could happen?!
5. Less innocent about posting on the web - you never know who's lurking and where or how you might be misrepresented.

Powder home

Powder home
Originally uploaded by Claddyjack.

Happy Holidays to you.

Adjusting

Lunchbreak
Originally uploaded by Claddyjack.

Last week the radio alarm went off as it does every weekday indicating it's time to get out of bed and make the tea, shuffle around in my robe and slippers and wake the hell up before shoveling all 50 of our stairs, the driveway and scrape ice from my windshields as much as possible. But when I heard that it was 17 degrees BELOW ZERO - that's a negative number - I hugged the comforter tighter and rolled over. This was a three snooze morning.

I spent 18 years growing up in Southern California, specifically Burbank which was a sleepy suburb on the backside of the Hollywood sign hill. After college in Utah I moved back to Los Angeles and lived all over that city for years - Santa Monica twice, LA or Beverly Hills adjacent (as it's called which is basically anywhere near the Beverly Center) and Playa del Rey (Manhatten Beach adjacent). After having my fill of LA I moved to Northern California - Los Gatos which is on the other side of the Santa Cruz mountains. During childhood almost all family vacations were to Tahoe in the summer, Utah or Colorado in the winter. . . I am definitely a western states kind of girl, familiar with the hot summers of Utah/Arizona and the winters of Utah/Colorado. I have also lived in France and Switzerland for extended periods of time, including winters. So even though my roots are Californian I've been exposed to what I'd call bits of extreme weather . . . but 17 below is tough for me to comprehend. Might as well be 40 below . . . really what's the difference?

Needless to say it's been an adjustment living in the "High Country" (as they call it). I've learned that turtlenecks are my best friends, along with our wood-burning stove and Cabela's Shearling Clogs featuring plush fleece lining. It's been record breaking temperatures and snowfall in Vail. Two days ago we got 6" of snow, last night we got 13". Even people used to winter here are having to adjust. Dave & I got back from the gym last night and shoveled our driveway for an hour.

But all of this is worth it because this is what I do on my lunchbreaks. (click photo to view large)

Chubscouts ultimate

Chubscouts ultimate
Originally uploaded by Claddyjack.

It's been a while since I've posted, there's plenty to catch up on. For the halloween ultimate frisbee tournament in Ft. Collins you gotta dress up. (click the photo and click "all sizes" to view large). I took this of my team moments before I laid out to catch a disc that was WAY too low to the ground and jammed myself into the field seperating my shoulder. Yay! That was weeks ago and I've been diligently rehabing so I can get out there and board. It's been snowing non-stop for days in Vail and the powder is insane. I look out my triple wide trailer (you'd uv best sed that with a suthern accent boy) cuz I work in a triple wide, didn't I tell you? It's at the base of the gondola and out the windows I see boarders and skiiers all day all day. So I'm just itchin to go up at lunch but I'm trying to be patient so my shoulder heals up real good like before I do somersaults in the snow. I'll wait one more week, that's all I can take ya hear?!