Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Harry Potter makes you very smart!


If you look at the Harry Potter Party picture in the previous blog, you will see Stephanie. She is wearing the purple shirt and black cape. Here she is in a very fine pig nose. (That's her brother Matt behind her.)

Read about her here http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/oct/09/star_qualities/

She's very smart! Congratulations Stephanie! (You also Kaye & Chris!)

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

A picture's worth a 1000 words

So let me speak volumes...

Anna just after a Color Guard event - Band Day









Harry Potter Party. We love Harry Potter!


Nathan then, last year and now...




























Mark and Anna this summer. I love summer.






I love my job...Camp 2007





















I love my dog...for my feelings about my cat see past blog.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

The Kansas Farmer's Market

Anna, Mark and I have gone to the Lawrence Farmer's Market several times this summer. The only other farmer's market I go to on a regular basis is the one in Ojai, CA with my friend Mary Beth. http://saltandchocolate.blogspot.com/2007/04/carries-visit.html

A California farmer's market is different from a Kansas farmer's market. In Ojai there are fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers. In Lawrence there's meat. Fresh baked Mennonite biscuits with a delicious slab of Mennonite sausage.

There are also Mennonite pies. And pork rinds of unknown denomination. Which is not to say there are not the traditional fruits, vegetables and flowers. Well actually, I haven't seen any fruit yet but I did buy two lovely, yet non-traditional, purple tomatoes.

There's also local honey and demonstrations on how to make fishing lures.
















At the Wichita Farmer's Market, where we were visiting recently, you can buy wigs and art.


In Kansas, what we lack in vegetation, we make up for in creativity.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

August and the like

It is so hot in Kansas. But of course. It's August.

I have had a really busy month. Mark is here from Virginia. I submitted another grant, the last for this HUD grant season. And the Resident Services Office (my office) took 13 kids to an overnight camp. I've had two days off and am finally sitting down to post. Just a little post though.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Learning to blog

I am trying to post pictures. I am having a hard time adjusting the size of the picture as it was downloaded off of my camera to a size that will fit on the blog page well. Anna has spent a better part of the year taking photos of her feet. Here is a picture of our feet. Let's see how it looks.

Friday, July 20, 2007

Good at Life

My friend Mary Beth sent me the best package which included a little zipper purse that she made. (One day I'll start posting pictures.)

When I showed the package to Anna she said "Mary Beth's just good at life isn't she."

Yes, she is.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

My bulimic cat

My cat likes to eat and then throw-up. It is annoying but we've had the cat for about 9 years and it has really just become part of the fabric of our lives. Because she is bulimic she often feels that it is appropriate to eat at 2 o'clock in the morning. Because of that, she usually sleeps in the garage with her food and cat box. If you forget to put her out she comes to the bedroom (read that MY bedroom) and demands to be let out. Her demands come in the form of annoying mewling or, even worse, she moves the door back and forth with her paw. Someone moving your bedroom door at 2am wakes you rather quickly.

Recently the temperature in Lawrence has been 100+ degrees. So, kind cat owner that I am, I moved the cat inside. That involved bringing in the cat box and the food bowl. She drinks out of the dog's water dish. Speaking of the dog, the cat's food bowl has to be kept at a level so as not to be reached by the dog. So, it is on the dining room table. (Not to worry, we hardly ever use the table for eating OUR meals. It serves mostly as a desk .)

Which brings me back to the cat. The bulimic, I need to eat at 2am, and then puke cat. It turns out that the cat's demands to be let into the garage are not about getting TO the food.

Because even though the food is inside, the cat is still waking me up so I can ESCORT HER TO THE DINING ROOM TABLE. She better hope the temperature breaks soon.

Friday, July 13, 2007

My new blog

My lovely daughter, Anna, feels I should have a blog of my own. So I can have a place to b*tch about my children and work. And thus, it begins....

Today, Anna, questioned the placement of the * in the word bitch. As if I ever cuss.