Friday, August 28, 2009

Friday cat blogging 1

Rainy day. You can barely see Jellico behind Little One on their side of the cathouse roof.

While on the other side of the roof, Tim is in the corner and PuddyTat is atop the annex.
These were taken thru the door and window so the cats wouldn't be disturbed. They get up if they see me.

Friday shuffle

1. I Want to Take You Higher - Sly and the Family Stone
2. Prelude to a Kiss - Jim Hall
3. Live Here with You - Dusty Springfield
4. A Girl Like You - The Young Rascals
5. Ives: Psalm 90 - Westminster Choir
6. Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
7. Wonderful! Wonderful! - Johnny Mathis
8. I'll be There - Jackson 5
9. Polka Dots and Moonbeams - Ray Brown Trio
10. How Sweet it is to be Loved by You - Marvin Gaye
The music may be listed on the CD as I Want to Take You Higher but the actual music is The Age of Aquarius by the 5th Dimension. Guess I need to change that on iTunes. lol

Thursday, August 27, 2009

The Terrific Team Trivia Team

What do you think?
We're sure of that answer.
I think it is...
I hope we win again.
Susan and Lisa invited me to join them for pizza and Team Trivia at the Blue Moon Cafe in Marietta, GA. The pizza was excellent. The people are wonderful and fun. The trivia went from simple to Huh? This team won last week and had a 50 gift certificate to spend. Made the evening even better. Now they have another one. I didn't contribute much but the others have excellent memories for useless stuff. Thanks for including me.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Monster squash

These are squashes. The spot on one is my iPhone. They are huge.

The one they have cut up and used weighed 33 pounds.

And there are more.

And more coming.
And there are even more around the front of the house plus some vines that grew out back as well. They rarely get a frost here. They may have squash all year? And we thought zucchini was prolific.
Perhaps someday the squash will overwhelm the fountain?

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Two friends on a cake

The cake was decorated with an older photograph of these two when he was a student at Westminster Choir College.

Friday, August 21, 2009

NC sunset

Friday cat blogging

Bishop Maya Pavlova

She moved just as I snapped it.



The bishop and her canon.
I don't know why some of the photos have a blueish cast. That is a constant battle with this camera.

Friday shuffle

1. Turn! Turn! Turn - The Byrds
2. 16 Candles - Crests
3. PDQ Bach: Erotica Variations
4. Time of the Season - Zombies
5. In the Sweet Bye and Bye - Jerry Douglas
6. Mr. Engineer - JD Crowe and the New South
7. Britten: Festival Te Deum - Westminster Choir
8. Cara Mia - Jay & Americans
9. I Was Made to Love Her - Stevie Wonder
10. Summer Wind - Monty Alexander

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Monday, August 17, 2009

Ugh

Rebuilding the system after installing a new hard drive under warranty is not fun. Guess I should strap the Macbook in so it doesn't fly off the car seat and crash into the firewall. I won't be checking as many blogs for awhile. It isn't because I no longer care or have lost interest. sigh.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Cats by night

Tim

Little One

Friday, August 14, 2009

Why it's easy to be anti-gay

It's very easy to tell someone else to suck it up and carry a cross--as long as you don't have to carry it with them.

IT has written an excellent post on the blog The Friends of Jake.

Episcopal baseball

The Suffragan Bishop for Baseball has posted the following rubrics for the observation of baseball in the Episcopal Church:

Every game is a double-header. The early game is played by National League rules. The later game is played by American League rules.

Read the rest at Andrew Plus.

PS: Contrary what some Episcopal bloggers would have you believe, you do not have to be a Red Sox fan to be welcome in The Episcopal Church. You might, however, be careful what jersey you wear.

Friday cat blogging

Little One butts in on Dude's breakfast. Dudie usually yields the food to the kitten. But Little One only wants to eat with Dude. It doesn't matter that there are plenty of other places for her to eat. I stay outside and try to pet her when she invades Dudie's breakfast. She usually runs away while Dude keeps on eating. I did manage a short scritch this morning.

Little One seems to have awakened a bit of the kitten that Jellico hasn't outgrown.

They aren't visible but you can hear the next folks wanting breakfast. As soon as the the cats have gone, the crows and bluejays will descend for the goodies.

Friday shuffle

1. Home is Where the Heart is - Conne & Babe
2. Porpoise Song - Monkees
3. Elgar: O Wild West Wind! - Finzi Singers
4. Jamaica Farewell -Harry Belafonte
5. Earth Angel - Penquins
6. Dizzy - Tommy Roe
7. Beethoven: Elegiac Song - Shaw, Atlanta
8. Beginnings - Chicago
9. Crazy - Patsy Cline
10. He Will Break Your Heart - Jerry Butler

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

A Christian nation?

In a recent NYT opinion piece, Barbara Ehrenreich asks "Is it now a crime to be poor?" Her article is disturbing to me tho obviously not to others.

So many are so desperate to inflict their "Christian" religion on the US. They seem to believe that all will be well if we all share their prejudices. What we do to the least of us, we do to Jesus. Um. By rejecting the poor, aren't we rejecting Jesus?

Duh.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Sunday church blogging

Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Hermitage, PA





Friday, August 7, 2009

Friday cat blogging

After supper, Tim bathes and Tommie looks elsewhere but PuddyTat watches the spectacle below.

Like Tommie, Dude and Jellico ignore the little one as she finds her tail fascinating.

Friday shuffle

1. Sky Pilot - Eric Burden & Animals
2. A Summer in San Francisco - Hendrick Maurkens
3. Nearer, My God to Thee - Rajaton
4. Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
5. I Went to Your Wedding - Patti Page
6. Catch a Falling Star - Perry Como
7. The Wild Song - Rajaton
8. Chattanooga Choo Choo - Glenn Miller Orchestra
9. What Am I Gonna Do About You - Reba McEntire
10. Those Oldies But Goodies - Little Caesar
The recent versions of Sky Pilot are really awful so I chose to link to one that doesn't show Burden.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Idiots

On a 68 to 31 vote, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. The Republicans voting for her were Lamar Alexander, Kit Bond, Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham, Judd Gregg, Richard Lugar, Mel Martinez, Olympia Snowe, George Voinovich. The others handed the Democrats a very good campaign issue among Hispanic voters. Your Republican Senator is prejudiced against you. The dumbest thing is the wasted angst. They knew from the beginning she would be confirmed. So why did they alienate Latinos in a losing effort?

(snicker)

A community gathers again

Father Jake Stops the World is back! Hallelujah!

When "Jake" was chosen to head evangelism efforts in TEC, he deleted his blog and started an official blog. After many petitions to leave it up even if he didn't post, he relented. Now that severe, and somewhat thoughtless, budget cuts at 815 have been implemented, Terry Martin is job hunting. Fortunately he has restarted his blog. It's fun to see the clan gather again in the comments.

Yes, some of us read and comment at Of Course I Could Be Wrong but that is a different sort of blog. Both are valuable.

Welcome back to the "unofficial" blogosphere, Jake!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Hat tip to Padre Mickey who got it from Crooks and Liars who got it from farleftside.com.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Ugly Republicans


I hope the people I know who haven't left the Republican Party understand how foolish and stupid they look, and IMO are, given the behavior of those who are doing their best to keep Americans from learning anything intelligent about health care. That goes for my brother and several friends at church. The disruptive people are evil, unAmerican, unChristian, unethical, uncivilized and unbelievably rude. I'm glad I left the party years ago. I'm sad that so many people I thought were intelligent haven't.

Gone

Meadville's Steak 'n Shake is closed. That's not good for the investors but it is definitely good for me. Shakes were waaaay too tempting.

Republican health care plan


Hat tip to Cany and Daily Kos.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Orchids, I think

I think the white flowers are orchids but I'm not sure. They certainly are spectacular. My sil has a real green thumb.

More dog blogging

This was most unusual.

These were normal.

Greta, the black and tan, is 3 months old. Trinka is six months old. If I remember correctly.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Dog blogging


This is the welcome I received when I arrived at my brother's house around noon today. The red one is Trinka, the b&t is Greta.

Grass!

When Tractor Supply sold me grass seed that was supposed to be quick germinating, they sold the right stuff. As of Tuesday this was very dry, brown dirt and whatever seeds the mourning doves hadn't eaten. We had a lovely all day rain Wednesday and suddenly there were green sprouts yesterday afternoon. We had more rain last night and suddenly I have grass. Wow. It isn't quite ready to mow but it looks wonderful to me.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Rainy day cats



And then the rain stopped for awhile.
So the little one came to eat.


Reluctant surrogate parent

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

If only

falling out of love were as easy as falling in love!!!

Republicans

in Congress would be better off if they just shut up. The longer they talk, the more they repeat their unbelievable prejudices and lies, the less respect I have for anyone who claims to be either Republican or conservative. I suppose they should be admired for their ability to stir up the fearful and stupids among us. At that they are very effective. Ugh.

Can't go home

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Oh, no!

The new tiny cat made Dudie's acquaintance. S/he doesn't look like a kitten. Scared but comes when I call it, tho to the food not to me, so belongs/ed to someone. Or maybe it is just really hungry. Ate a whole can of catfood and some dry. The girls watched from the cathouse roof until I pointed the camera at them. PuddyTat hates the camera and runs. I just hope the little one isn't a fertile female! And that s/he figures out where s/he lives and goes home with the owners.

Daylily lust

Someday I will dig up one of these for my fence. I've been saying that for years. They are at church.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

500

The 500th post since I deleted my old blog a year ago.

More yard

This was the side yard a couple of months ago. The "wildflowers" were twice as tall day before yesterday.

Yesterday the neighbor leveled it and took out the stuff that would break the mower.
I spread some grass seed hoping the rain would come this far east. It didn't. Now I will probably get hoards of starlings. Exercise and protein supplements for the cats?

Friday, July 24, 2009

More Friday cat blogging

Supper time but Jellico is standoffish.

They were rewarded with some chicken - their favorite.

Kinetic sculpture at Berkshire Botanical Garden

This was my favorite of the kinetic scultures at Berkshire Botanical Garden.


Others are on my Facebook video page.