1 Second Everyday: January thru July 2018

Better late than never, eh?  1 or 2 seconds everyday, minus a few days.

1 Second Everyday: Mar-Apr 2017 edition

1 Second Everyday: Jan-Feb 2017 edition

Better late than never, eh?  Way back in the new year, Middle Dude had a "man bun" (it's gone now, btw) and College Kid was home between semesters.  He got a new [to him] Soul [car, that is] and slept in. A Lot.  My always annual Christmas cards became New Year's cards.  There was weather and bodypump and crafts. We celebrated my big 5-0 and went to Hawaii.  There was weather there, too.  February included life mundane-ness & minutia plus a super neato trip to El Paso to visit Julie and her girls with roadtrips to Carlsbad Caverns & White Sands NM.

1 Second Everyday: Nov-Dec 2016 edition

And thus completes our third year of compiling 1 seconds ... :-)

1 Second Everyday: Aug, Sep, Oct 2016

The season wherein we released all our varmints back to the "wild" (where "wild" equals our backyard for the lizards - we still see them occasionally, and where "wild" equals the cemented creek in the canyon), pumped iron, crocheted goodies for all the cousins, drew, brewed, gamed, watched oodles of olympics, beached, began a new school year, recycled, read, witnessed the Dimmitts tying the knot, documented the caterpillars, visited in the family "dynasty" in the valley, appreciated the sunsets, shared some scary days in the hospital with Dad, ate lots of Smashburger (employee discount rocks!), celebrated Dad's return home, after a year+ finally put the top back on the jeep, lightning!, The Getty, the rain, and more frisbee-ing.

1SE aug sep oct 2016 720 from Susan Keller on Vimeo.

1 Second Everyday: June & July 2016 edition

Birth of a butterfly (sped up 350%), summer jobs, summer waves, summer visitors, summer grilling, summer Shakespeare, summer trip to Spokane, summersummersummer....

1 Second Everyday: May 2016 edition

College Kid returns for the summer, Middle & Little Dude's classes wind down, cue the card games and puzzles.  Cue all the summer nature:  caterpillars, chrysalids, baby hummers, squab lobster by the hundreds of thousands, and rattlers, oh my!!

1 Second Everyday: April 2016 edition

April's 1 Second Everyday, including visitors, baby hummingbirds, Nerf weapons and video-gaming and frisbee (because Boys), and flowers and reading (because Me), and the Bee-Hive Max (definitely because Boys) ...


all filmed on LG G4 phone

1 Second Everyday: Feb & Mar 2016

February and March were full of school stuff, and surprisingly, baby butterflies (!!!), the usual beaching and frisbee-ing, more amusing uses for Big Dude's back roller, exploring Sunken City, lots of art, College's Kid winter break (he mostly caught up on sleep?), gaming, movie-ing, evidence that Middle Dude is growing his hair out, Little Dude becoming Teen Dude #3, super awesome concert at Pepperdine (Us the Duo & The Oh Hellos), and a really kick-ass sunset.

1 Second Everyday: January 2016 edition

Drawing lessons for Little Dude, College Kid home for Christmas break, SHERLOCK Victorian style!!, El Nino and big waves, surprising birth of two monarchs in Winter, long awaited return trip to Hawaii, back to real life and schoolwork and backyard bananas and Kauai coffee we brought home with us, and yes, a shopping trip to T-mobile for their BOGO-half-off sale (Big Dude's 2012 phone died its last death, and I'm the happy recipient of the half off phone). This is officially my last Galaxy-ography (S3) version of 1SE. Commencing next month will be LG-ography...

1 Second Everyday ... the entire 2015 edition.

Wow.  That's a wrap.  I blinked and 2015 was gone.
Thanks and compilation credit goes to College Kid, who added song snippets from the following music ...
Genesis by Grimes
Into Yesterday by Sugar Ray (Surf's Up)
Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads
Baba Yetu by Peter Hollens

One Second Everyday ... Nov & Dec 2015 edition

Thus completes my second 365 video project ... :-)
video compilation credit: Big Dude
music: Hold on Forever by Rob Thomas and Pride by American Authors

1 Second Everyday: Oct 2015

Song choice (Send Me on My Way by Rusted Root) & slideshow compilation credit to: Big Dude.

1 Second Everyday: Sept 2015

School started, so we officially said goodbye to summer; tho, the heat remained and the beach still beckoned.  Big dude earned Son-in-Law of the week award when he climbed on a high ladder to take down wasp nests.  Mom & I toured fancy-schmancy condos.  Fresh bagels, pretty sunsets, wind, fog, and workouts at the Y happened.  So did dog walks, trips to Costco, grammar on the couch, and a visit to Pepperdine to see the 9/11 Memorial Flags.  Republicans debated, Mixels were sought, and a drive over the Grapevine and up the valley to celebrate a dear friend's life well lived.  Enjoyed comics, crosswords, going to the movies, and watching Dad do laps in the pool.

Video compilation & music choice:  College Kid
Big Dude protested the "moody" music choice of College Kid and make his own version of this month's 1SE ...



Isn't it interesting how differently music can affect the feeling of the slideshow?

1 Second Everyday: August 2015

This will go down in memory as the summer we went no where (not even a daytrip!!) and did nothing particularly special.  And yet.  It was still pretty great.  We were together.  Everyone was healthy.  There was lots of down time to do the things we like to do when we're not being busy ;-).

This month's distinctives did include College Kid going back to College and Middle Dude starting some "dual-enrollment" classes (counts for high school and college credit) at the local Jr. College.  Can I just confess?:  I have tremendously mixed feelings about using jr. college classes for Middle Dude.  Thus far, I've found the content of their poli-sci, history, and composition classes to be academically disappointing lacking and tremendously biased (while claiming neutrality).  So why do it?  Simply: Money.  Not so much for the immediate savings (online homeschool classes cost $600-800 each vs. dual-enrollment classes cost only minor fees + book expenses), but for the future college savings.  BECAUSE COLLEGE IS OVERWHELMINGLY EXPENSIVE.  So, there you have it: my financially-driven academic conundrum.

But enough on mental dilemmas .... here's some 1SE goodness:

1 Second Every Day: July 2015

Staycation summer continues with gaming (of the old-fashioned & video variety), duct-tape-crafting, gun range, fireworks, beaching, Pixar, cooking before class, exercise, CLEANING OUT!!! and attempting to de-clutter (round 1 ... I'm waiting for round 2 to hit me over the head), Sawdust Art Festival, book club, trolleying, reading (lots of reading this summer), da Vinci art class, yard work, swimming with cousins, buying new shoes because growing like crazy, getting pretty far in KeyQuest - but not far enough to solve, scoping session site at dawn.



video compilation/editing credit to College Kid.

1 Second Everyday: June 2015

1 Second Everyday: May 2015 ...

In addition to normal everyday Keller shtuff, stick around to the end for the transformation of caterpillar to chrysalis for the cutest Puck ever's soliloquy epilogue, creepy & cute juxtaposed.



Thanks to College Kid for adding beginning & ending frames, music & outtakes.

One Second Everyday: the April 2015 edition

gym, banana bread chef, frisbee golf course in the ‘Bu, filming baby butterflies, joshua tree, Horse (at the hoops), skipping, spinning, sprinkling, movie-title-handball, gaming, drawing, dinner, walking doggies, book club (Oliver Twist), another baby butterfly, Joshua Tree, baby goslings, more gaming (I could probably make a whole 1SE of just gaming, but how boring would that be?!?), daily greeting, new book for club (Anna Karenina – so good!), practicing Puck’s lines, performing Midsummer Night’s Dream for the residents at Sea Bluffs retirement home, pretty poppies in the wind, windy shadows in Big Dude’s “office” in the garage, soaking in some vitamin D, In n Out lunch, COFFEE. snippets of life.



College Kid took over the video-making duties this month and added the neato opening and closing shots of driving thru Joshua Tree, and I’m sure this fancy bookending pleased his video-making-editing sensibilities and aesthetics.  And it turned out cool.  But, you know which “outtakes” he left out?  The entire sequence of my butterfly hatching and the cute little waddling goslings.  I guess those just aren’t manly things?

1 Second Everyday: March 2015

All in all, a pretty quiet month.  We explored a bit. The College Kid came home for winter break. And slept. A lot. The top came off the Jeep. The beard came off Big Dude. Shakespeare rehearsals continued. Little Dude turned a year older.