PCR and DNA Extractions in the Lab

I got to spend the last week in Maryland in a plant diagnostic lab learning how to process samples. It was a blast but unbelievably exhausting!

Baby Titus

Our friends Mark and Shelly had a new little one a few weeks ago and I was lucky enough to get a couple of cute pictures of him in the hospital. Hopefully I will get to take some more pic's within the next couple of weeks. Isn't he a cutie!!

Christmas Pictures

Christmas Snowman!! Can you tell I have that, I just got out of bed 20 minutes ago look on my face.


Picture by the fire after Christmas dinner.

Family picture after Christmas lunch at Mid-Pines Country Club. Papa is hiding at the back but we're all there!

Orlando, FL

So, last week during the ice and snow I was in sunny Orlando! Don't get too jealous it was cold there too, just minus the ice and snow. I had a conference for work and even though they had a fantastic heated outdoor pool I only got to see it as I walked from the convention center to my room every night at 10:00PM. It was kind of like being tormented.... oh lovely pool calling my name.... I should go for a swim...... except that I have another meeting in 10 minutes then I get to type up all my notes from the day.... yuck! Anyways... here is all the tropical I got to see. Her name is Sierra and she can say Hello and ring like a telephone. That isn't much of a vocabulary in my opinion but she did say hello to me when I walked by a couple of times. She has a cage out by the pool that they put her in (or on) during the day. I asked them if she could fly because it didn't look like her wings were cut... the guy laughed and said she tried sometimes but she has gotten too fat so she just splats.... poor bird... I know what its like to have a few unwanted extra pounds!