Archive for May, 2005
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
Vignette: Bench Girl
If I happen to drive by the local barbecue joint between four and five in the afternoon I see her, Bench Girl. Mentally challenged and greatly overweight, she sits with headphones on and a yellow Walkman CD player clutched in her hands. She rocks to the beat of the silent music with a big smile [...]
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
The Day I Adopted Them . . .
. . . I asked Mike and Andy’s foster mother if they were bad to climb. She said, “Oh, no not at all.” I thought this meant they didn’t climb. I now realize she was trying to tell me they’re really, really good at climbing.
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Update: Susie put this fantastic link to [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in The Cats by Rana
Monday, May 30th, 2005
Memorial Day
Memorial Day, an outgrowth of the War Between the States, was first observed in 1868 when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. Some even attribute the origins of the day to the activities of groups like the fictitious organization with the scrumptious name Margaret Mitchell [...]
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Sunday, May 29th, 2005
Sometimes . . .
. . . you just get lucky.
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2 Comments » - Posted in Photo Entries by Rana
Sunday, May 29th, 2005
Walk In The Rain
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Yesterday during a lull in the rain I took a quick walk through the Botanic Gardens looking for rain soaked blooms. I’m to put some photos up in the restaurant down there in July and don’t have the images I want yet — too much time spent in the Justin Arena, [...]
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Saturday, May 28th, 2005
Something I’ve Been Meaning . . .
. . . to post for a week. If this isn’t proof of the passing years I don’t know what is. My buddy M. and I used to get in trouble as kids for leap frogging this bush. As you can see, that was a while ago.
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Friday, May 27th, 2005
The Empress And The Yard Crew
Bless her heart, the Empress just can’t get a peaceful last few months as reigning homeowner’s association president. The Imperial Presence is much displeased with the new yard crew and is seeking opinions up and down the driveway. You see about six weeks ago Brad, the chief of the old yard crew, announced that his [...]
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Thursday, May 26th, 2005
Latches and Closet Doors
Today’s first project involved putting a hook and eye latch on the door of my closet. Mike and Andy find closets fascinating, to the point that I long ago installed a latch on the door of my office. A couple of nights ago, however, they discovered that the combined locksmith powers of two gray cats [...]
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Just What We Needed Today
Oh. My. God. What a day. Well, actually, it started last night after we watched a film with Missy J. and I started to help R. back to the bedroom. She habitually drops her newspaper one page at a time by her chair as she’s reading. I started to pick up the scattered sheets to [...]
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Heat Wave
I’m onboard with the concept of breaking records but enough already with this heat wave. When I listen to the weatherman at night and he starts talking about the “dome of high pressure” that settles over Texas I begin to have nasty flashbacks to all the things I hard to learn about meteorology to write [...]
