Hikers

One week ago I joined these folks on a short hike. It was her birthday. I'm so happy I got to see them. Two of my very favorite people. I was with them for his birthday in February too. This one was a bit quieter.

Mornings

North Carolina morning on Rt 98 between Wake Forest and Durham.

Georgia morning on I-75 way north of Atlanta.

This morning at home. A large branch fell off one of the black cherry trees while I was gone. A neighbor will remove it and use it for firewood eventually. One of these days, a tree or part of one will probably fall on the house tho I pray not. The trees are very tall and the house is very small.

Friday cat blogging 2

This is Smokey. He has quite a history including wandering in and adopting the people who live in that house. He was lost after a vacation and sorely grieved but eventually reappeared surviving but in poor shape. They think a neighbor tried to get rid of him without actually killing him.

He has the most earnest face.

He has trained his family to brush him every night.

Then he settles to relax with TV.

Smokey is a rather large feline who likes to read the paper in the morning.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

On the Prius bumper now

(Click to embiggen.)

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.

Cats by night

Tim

Little One

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

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 church blogging

Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Hermitage, PA