Via the iPhone - my first attempt at fireworks photos

Evening walk

Visiting family

The Cleveland contingent of the family is moving across town to find better schools and some playmates for the kiddos. The Prius can carry lotsa boxes and stuff so I visited. No photos of the new digs but the house and quiet neighborhood are very different from Cedar Road. These folks are my grandnephew and grandniece with their father.

A neighbor brought popsicle things for the kids while we were there. There are plenty of other young folks in the neighborhood. That will be a huge change.

Economic advantage, New York

Hallelujah!

Despite religious prejudice and the ick factor, the New York State Senate passed and the governor signed the same sex marriage act into law last night. It will take effect in 30 days. As many have quipped, now NY LGBTs will have all the hassles that other married couples have.

I think we should do away with marriage as the term which grants privilege and responsibility. Too many household families are no longer defined by the word. There are many configurations from single individuals to traditional families to grandparents rearing a child to children of divorce living with remarried parents to siblings to live-in care givers to roommates, etc. which constitute a household. People who live together for a period of time should be able to register as household families for tax and other legal purposes. People complained about the "marriage penalty" which was, in fact, the recognition that individuals living alone have more expenses than those who live as a family. Let's change our thinking to accomodate households as families now.

The women in the preceding post are a household family, aren't they?

Grace on the journey

Kirstin has made the ultimate choice. Her blog entry and all that precedes it at Barefoot and Laughing is well worth reading. Over and over. Especially if facing cancer or dealing with a loved one with it.

Kirstin is my heroine.

My family at Pymatuning all together

Left to right bottom to top: Jellico with his newly regrowing hair, Tommie, LittleOne, PuddyTat, Dudie and Tim.

Photos at home

These two found some remains to clean up in the field across the road. The next day there were 16 more in the same place so the find must have been significant tho it isn't visible. It was too windy to get a good photo of the mob.

The man who owns this property yelled at me when I parked briefly to take this photo. I yelled back what I was doing and he said OK.

Three of the feline residents on the cathouse roof. Tim munches while LittleOne (who is really quite large now) and Tommie watch me.

Help needed in the Stockton/Lodi area of California

Internet friends Andee and Kirstin need help. Kirstin is fighting multiple myeloma. Andee is exhausted. The story is here. If there is any way you can help, please do!!!

Walking to and from the winery

Lago Winery, Jamestown, PA

Friday cat blogging

It was a lazy morning in the cathouse.

Until the tuna was offered.

PuddyTat always wants petted before eating.

Church of the Holy Spirit, Erie, PA

Sunday, 22 May 2011 when Christ Church Meadville's Senior Warden was "on vacation".

Why I haven't but need to mow

If you look closely you will see a red cable running across my oil tank and beyond my TV antenna. That is my phone line at the moment. It runs from the phone access around the house across the front and around the barn to a pole up the driveway. Windstream needs to move the pole so this is how they gave me temporary access. It all lay in the grass until today when I really need to mow. I raised it so I don't cut it. I hope they install the pole soon!

This is one reason I really don't want to mow. I LOVE violets and the yard is full of them this year. This is just a small sample. The daffys are mostly gone and need to be dead headed. Someday.

Both photos are embiggenable.

Friday cat blogging on Monday

The crew at breakfast this morning. Tim ate then demanded scritching. She is the most vocal of the bunch. At the top is Jellico who is eating with Tommie. PuddyTat (orange) is eating with LittleOne. Dudie is barely visible on his own level.

After they ate all retired to one place or another. LittleOne and PT were in the boxes while Jellico decided that the top of the boxes was a good place to do his toilette. I had to put reinforcement up there because he kept collapsing the boxes.

The heating pads are still out - one is barely visible under LO. I keep hoping I can remove them but I had to have the heated water bowls on a couple of days ago when the temperature plunged to 28. Someday our spring will come.

Angry sky, angry lake

We had a brief period of sunshine Saturday but it was between storms. This and the following were taken on my way to Cleveland to get the Macbook fixed.

Obviously the weather deteriorated quickly.

The following photos were taken today, Palm Sunday. This is the view out from our bay toward the beach. The long island is on the left.

This is from the "tracks" looking up the lake toward the Century Club. The wind was from the west which is across the lake. We rarely see wind strong enough to make waves across the lake but we had it today. The ponding in the foreground is unusual as the lake is very high. My neighbor had photos of the water overflowing the spillway earlier in the week. We've had a little rain.

Looking across the lake again from farther up the tracks.