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Cute

If you like kitties, you'll love these pictures! Brought to you via Amish Tech Support.

There are even more incredibly cute pictures, which I found by continuing to peruse the site that ATS had sent me to.

Horse News

ESPN has put out The 25 best 3-year olds since Affirmed. Three fillies are in that list; Serena's Song, Winning Colors and Dance Smartly. These fillies were remarkable for the fact that they beat colts in such races as the Kentucky Derby and the Molson Million. Looking at this list definitely took me on a trip down memory lane!

Julie Krone, who has not ridden for several months due to a back injury, may be back in the saddle in July. Good luck Julie!

Noises Explained

A few weeks ago I was taking care of Sam for a couple of days, and heard drums and bugles where I didn't expect to hear them. This article explains why I was hearing those sounds in strange places.

Ellen and Scott . . .

Have brought Olivia home. Scott took pictures to chronicle the adventure. Don't miss the "birthing" pictures (no, it's not the real thing, he brought in the stunt cat).

Isn't That Interesting?

I am the one and only place that returns results for 10 ways of saying someones flie is open!

After seeing Fred's post on his poor dog Buster, I found that I was the 14th result when searching for lab/samoyed mix, which pointed to my post about Sampson leaving for the big fire hydrant in the sky. Tears in my eyes, twice in one morning, are not the way to start things!

It's Ba-a-ack

Yesteday we did a lot of running around, thus got nothing done on the yard. We did our normal Saturday stuff; the dump run, bank deposit (I wish he could get direct deposite), Dunkin Donuts for coffee (for me - I only have coffee on the weekends), and Agway for dog food. Then the Wonderful Spouse decided that we needed to stop at Caron's diner for breakfast. We came home and there was a message from Eddie about the Wonderful Spouse's bike being done.

I was supposed to go to Heather's house and dig up some ground cover (periwinkle) to help with erosion control in the area of the railroad ties that we had to build up several feet. Since WS needed a driver to pick up the bike, he offered to go with me so that the digging would go faster. I accepted and an hour job turned into about 30 minutes.

I then took the Wonderful Spouse up to Bow to pick up his bike - boy is he are we psyched! It's running well, although there may be a few minor bugs to work out. When we got home, I was going to start planting, but Jim came over on his bike and wanted to go for a ride. Of course we decided a short ride would be just the ticket to cool off, so off we went. When we got home, Harry and Heather came riding up, and after yakking for a while, we decided to go for another putt.

It was so relaxing just to forget about the yard for a day, and have fun with good friends. We sure needed that!

Today we will try to concentrate some on the yard, but Jim threatened to come by today and wisk us off on another ride. Not that I'm complaining mind you . . .

If I Were A Gun

This is the type I would be: a sniper

What Gun Are You?
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Thanks to Drumwaster for confirming all those other tests that I have taken.

By the way, you may not want to take the quiz if you don't like innuendos about your sex life!

P.S. To the person who created the quiz - LEARN TO SPELL!

Don't Call Me

I have signed up for the National Do Not Call registery. I'm just waiting for my confirmation email to complete registration.

After Oct. 1, those vinyl siding and window replacement phone calls should slow down - YEAH!

UPDATE:
I have gotten the email and responded, so the registration is complete!

Some Pictures

I took a couple of pictures of the fence last night, so lets get to it:

Here is the dent that Missy made before the fence was even completely installed.

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The fence guy dropped of the parts needed to fix the dent on Wednesday, so the dent will soon be gone.

Then there are the lilies behind the fence as well as the bushes that I planted the other day in front of the fence. The bush on the left is a rhododendron, the barberry is in the middle and the cotoneaster is on the right. There is another rhododendron, out of the picture, further to the left. Also the tree in the very left (in back of the fence) is an almond tree that I planted 10-12 years ago. I've never gotten an almond because the birds and squirrels keep taking off with the fruit. That's okay, it keeps them away from the peaches

Last is a picture taken from the street in which you can see the lower section of railroad ties (which despite how it looks, is 3 ties deep), lilies, and the retaining wall which was added on to in order to raise the top layer by a couple of feet.

Actually the rock wall looks a lot better than the picture seems to suggest. I have planted flowers in a lot of the nooks and cranies. Eventually I will plant some sort of plant along the top that will drape down the part of the wall that is at the very right in the picture. The fencing that can be seen way in the background (above where the rock wall and railroad ties meet), is the back side of the dog pen where the dogs stay during the day (you can't see the back side of the new fencing because of the angle). If you look just to the left of where the shovel is leaning, and in the background, that is the gate to the dog pen.

That is today's tour folks (and yes Cop Car, I forgot to take a picture of the stepping stone - I will get one posted at some point in time).

More Congrats

Laurence has landed a job! Maybe someone saw how valuable he could be when he blew the whistle on Orrin Hatch. What will the cats do without their daddy home all day?