I wasn’t originally going to post my December Photo Project pictures here, but changed my mind for two reasons. First, they’re Live Photos, which makes them slightly more interesting to Apple fans. Second, I’m hoping they’ll provide a little window into my life and help people get to know me a bit.

Without further ado, here’s Week 1:

December 1

This is Griffin, our Weimaraner. He’s my husband’s dog and he’s pretty much a big lovable dope.

December 2

This is the Mac Classic II that I picked up for $15 at a flea market a few years ago. It needs new capacitors, hence the checkerboard pattern. I don’t have the time to mess with that right now, so I may just send the logic board through the dishwasher again for a temporary fix! When I did get it to boot up, I found out that it used to belong to a dentist’s office…I think in Illinois somewhere. Fortunately they were smart enough to delete all the patient information off of it!

December 3

‘Tis the season for hot cocoa and marshmallows!

December 4

Our pet pig, Moe, and his buddy Molly, a calf that my husband rescued and bottle-fed after her mother died.

December 5

Every year I go to the Christmas concert at Doane College, my undergraduate alma mater. The piece they were performing when I took this is an arrangement of Pavel Chesnokov’s “Salvation is Created” for choir and band. Here’s a recording of them closing the Christmas concert with the same piece in 2009. It’s one of my favorites, and I pretty much cry whenever I hear it.

December 6

Daisy thinks she’s a cat and spends most of the day sitting either on the top of the couch or in the bay window itself.

December 7

I made some chocolate chip cookies today and this my attempt to do a “flyover” of them. lol.

Again, all of these Live Photos were converted to GIFs using Alive!.