Believe it or not this photo was taken at Midway Airport in an Irish-like pub in the Food Court area. We were on our way to Omaha for Thanksgiving.
Happy Birthday Phelan! I talked to her last night and she had just played an afternoon outdoor show in Boston and was with her band on their way to Providence. They had just got done playing a handful of shows in Canada, including Montreal. Sounds like fun.
My dad told me that in Toronto, someone tried to steal the band's van while she was changing in the back of it. The guy turned the ignition and she yelled "Get the _____ out of here!" from the back. He ran.
I woke up at 5:00 this morning to the cries of a woman outside my window. She was yelling, "My dog, my dog! He took my dog!" I threw on some jeans and walked out to Wells Street. Nobody was there. Weird. I imagine a woman took her dog out to go to the bathroom and someone, a degenerate still out from the night before, grabbed it and ran. I hope either the cops took her in their car to chase the guy down or she was inside on the phone with them. Dog theft happens here. People have expensive dogs and tie them up outside coffee shops and stores only to find them gone when they come back out.
Thanks to Joe3 and Joe4 for moving a washer and dryer that I had purchased months ago...the previous owner (a local cop) was getting VERY anxious for us to pick them up (don't want a cop mad at me)...while they were unloading at our house Mike noticed that the dryer vented out the bottom (for a floor vent)!! So after much pulling, shoving and cutting off the metal vent (and injury to Joe3's hand) they wheeled the dryer into our laundry room where Mike and I realized our dryer vent goes through the floor!! Mike and Mary felt very stupid!! But, it's an easy fix... Thanks again to Joe and Joe!! I'm very excited to do laundry at home.
Happy Birthday, Phelan, Caitlin and Scott! Hope you all had fine birthdays and great Memorial Day weekends.
We spent the weekend at the farm and had a great time. Yesterday, Grace and I decided to dig up a few irises from a patch she had spotted growing wild in the ditch near the cemetary. The kids were on the hay bales with Stevo watching them and Ty spotted us trudging down the road with a shovel and a box and he jumped off his bale and started running after us as fast as he could. As soon as he got close enough he shouted excitedly, "Wait! Wait! Are you guys digging someone up?" If we were, he sure didn't want to miss it.
Cathy - have you not heard the lore associated with Cash Cemetery Irises? You need to immediately pour a ring of salt around your house, pray to Gabriel for protection, burn the irises with sage bundles and toss the ashes into the west wind.
Wowzer, I just realized that a guy I graduated from HS with and we were both editors for our yearbook together...is super famous. His name is Peter Docter and he's a somethin'-somethin' at Pixar. He directed Up and was highly inlvolved with movies like Monsters Inc/Toy Story and others. Way cool. He was a very nice, kinda geeky, super smart and funny guy.
Cool...I just read his biography...it said he was making his own flip books when he was 8...Des and his cousin Caroline used to do that at that age and now Caroline is an animator for Pixar...I bet she knows him because the bio said he made story boards for "Bug's Life" as did Caroline! "UP" looks good, now I'm gonna see it for sure!
I mispoke...we did not graduate together. He was a year older. I forgot that when I was an editor I started as a junior (only sr's were editors). All my good yearbook friends were a year older. Peter and I weren't friends...but, we worked together. I just asked his wife to be my facebook friend...we'll see what she says.
Happy Birthday to Phelan and Caitlin and to Scott- complex Geminis all.
Scott spent the weekend buying, hauling and spreading 19 bags of mulch, cleaning the gutters, and vaccuming the house while I sat on the deck and told him what to do- occasionally getting up to turn on and off the hose while he was cleaning the gutters. We did get a sitter last night and went out for Mexican food. Jude and I made a cake today and I tried to make a Superman logo on it becasue Jude was sure he would want a Superman cake but it didn't turn out too well. We'll see if it's even recognizable to Scott when he gets home.
It's not Ferris' house, it's Cameron's house in the woods for $2.3 Million...the Realtor is Melodee Hughes with Sotheby's Intl. Realty. (I wonder if she's related to John Hughes?)
It's gonna be alot of fun Everybody better come! Or Sr. Eugene will squeeze your arm and hit your knees. So, beware and don't be square Garrigan's planning a big affair! SEE YOU THERR!!
Thanks for the birthday wishes! After work yesterday my dad came over with a cake and a bottle of champagne and he (accompanied by my mom over speaker phone) sang happy birthday to be and I pretended to blow out the candles because no one had matches. Then I met a bunch of people at The Homy Inn (the only place that serves champagne on tap) and we ordered Sgt. Peffer's italian food from across the street. Delicious! It was a very successful, legal birthday.
I wish there had been inticing photos of the homes instead of the tiny picture of the outside of Midge Andreason's home. Is that her old house? She said she uses it as a guest house?
Lisa, click on that photo and you will go to the "photo gallery" which has photos of exactly 2 homes, but one is at least an interior shot of Mike & Mary's. Nice place.
That house is Midge's hobby house...her book club and other ladies groups meet there...she says in the article that it was built in 1915...I didn't think that was right, so I checked the courthouse records and it was built in 1925...so OUR house is the oldest...but, I'll let Midge win...I saw the Judge out front of the hobby house pulling weeds with Midge 2 days after his retirement party...he didn't look like he was having fun!
Mary, I think you meant the "Justice" when you said "Judge".
Speaking of Justices I was pretty ambivalent or even disinterested in this Sotomayer until I read this...
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Empathy is a vital virtue to be exercised in private life -- through charity, respect and loving kindness -- and in the legislative life of a society where the consequences of any law matter greatly, which is why income taxes are progressive and safety nets are built for the poor and disadvantaged.
But all that stops at the courthouse door. Figuratively and literally, justice wears a blindfold. It cannot be a respecter of persons. Everyone must stand equally before the law, black or white, rich or poor, advantaged or not.
Obama and Sotomayor draw on the "richness of her experiences" and concern for judicial results to favor one American story, one disadvantaged background, over another.
Many of you who read this blog use words as the tool of your trade. You may not agree with Charles. But, you gotta agree that this guy is masterful in conveying his point.
Iowa had 2 kids in the recently-concluded National Spelling Bee. I heard the end of a radio story on it and so am not sure of all my facts. One kid went out misspelling some word I never heard of. The other went out in the 2nd round missing on "perturbed". Think how perturbed the kid was. More likely, think how perturbed his parents (who prolly home-schooled the kid and had him going through dictionaries for 14 hours a day for the last couple years) were.
The one who came in third was crushed. She and the number one winner were good friends since preschool. I like the kids who just laugh when they hear the word.
Not mutually exclusive! Justice tempered with empathy = mercy. And the quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned Supreme Court Justice better than his robe. His chair shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of judges. But mercy is above this sceptered sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of Justices; It is an attribute of God himself; And earthly power doth then show like God's When mercy seasons justice.
This weekend Josh made a surprise reservation at a nice hotel in Fort Lauderdale for a night. It was fun - the city is connected by canals, so you can buy an all day pass for water taxis and just tour via boat. The weather wasn't great, but we did get a window for a couple hours of nice weather (we also got caught in a nasty downpour). p
She had a great party. Lot's of fun. We are eating cake and pork. I froze two big bags of pork loin. It'll be great to have for sandwiches. Thank you to those of you who came. Those of you who didn't you missed some awesome cotton candy.
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Happy Birthday Cousin!
Happy Birthday goddaughter! What a cheerful photo!
p
Happy Birthday Phelan. What a perfect day for a birthday. What do you have planned?
Monica
Believe it or not this photo was taken at Midway Airport in an Irish-like pub in the Food Court area. We were on our way to Omaha for Thanksgiving.
Happy Birthday Phelan! I talked to her last night and she had just played an afternoon outdoor show in Boston and was with her band on their way to Providence. They had just got done playing a handful of shows in Canada, including Montreal. Sounds like fun.
My dad told me that in Toronto, someone tried to steal the band's van while she was changing in the back of it. The guy turned the ignition and she yelled "Get the _____ out of here!" from the back. He ran.
I woke up at 5:00 this morning to the cries of a woman outside my window. She was yelling, "My dog, my dog! He took my dog!" I threw on some jeans and walked out to Wells Street. Nobody was there. Weird. I imagine a woman took her dog out to go to the bathroom and someone, a degenerate still out from the night before, grabbed it and ran. I hope either the cops took her in their car to chase the guy down or she was inside on the phone with them. Dog theft happens here. People have expensive dogs and tie them up outside coffee shops and stores only to find them gone when they come back out.
Happy Birthday to a beautiful and talented girl with a BIG heart! Happy Day! :-)
Sorry for any confusion, I changed the photo, but I just love this sister picture! Happy Birthday Lavelle Girls and Scott!
Happy birthday Caitlin and Scott!
Do something fun!
Molly I am completely confused.
p
They're both great photos. Happy birthday to all. Hope you all had a fun weekend.
Monica
Happy Birthday Darling daughter Phelan (27)
Happy Birthday Bro-in-law Scott (37?)
Happy Birthday Darling daughter Caitlin (21) she's legal today!
Phelan played in Brooklyn Sunday and then somewhere in Manhattan on Monday.
Thanks to Joe3 and Joe4 for moving a washer and dryer that I had purchased months ago...the previous owner (a local cop) was getting VERY anxious for us to pick them up (don't want a cop mad at me)...while they were unloading at our house Mike noticed that the dryer vented out the bottom (for a floor vent)!! So after much pulling, shoving and cutting off the metal vent (and injury to Joe3's hand) they wheeled the dryer into our laundry room where Mike and I realized our dryer vent goes through the floor!! Mike and Mary felt very stupid!! But, it's an easy fix...
Thanks again to Joe and Joe!! I'm very excited to do laundry at home.
Happy happy day Phelan, Caitlin and Scott.
You all look marvelous!
Let us know what you did!
Lisa
Happy Birthday, Phelan, Caitlin and Scott! Hope you all had fine birthdays and great Memorial Day weekends.
We spent the weekend at the farm and had a great time. Yesterday, Grace and I decided to dig up a few irises from a patch she had spotted growing wild in the ditch near the cemetary. The kids were on the hay bales with Stevo watching them and Ty spotted us trudging down the road with a shovel and a box and he jumped off his bale and started running after us as fast as he could. As soon as he got close enough he shouted excitedly, "Wait! Wait! Are you guys digging someone up?" If we were, he sure didn't want to miss it.
happy birthday everyone. here's some random strange for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1NyGmn4D80
Cathy - have you not heard the lore associated with Cash Cemetery Irises? You need to immediately pour a ring of salt around your house, pray to Gabriel for protection, burn the irises with sage bundles and toss the ashes into the west wind.
Tom
Is that wind coming from the west or going to the west?
Coming from the west. Duh-uh.
Tom
Happy Birthday Caitlin...wow, you've come a long way since being our junior bridesmaid! Hope you have a GREAT Birthday! :-)
Happy Birthday Scott! Hope you have a SUPER day! :-)
Wowzer, I just realized that a guy I graduated from HS with and we were both editors for our yearbook together...is super famous. His name is Peter Docter and he's a somethin'-somethin' at Pixar. He directed Up and was highly inlvolved with movies like Monsters Inc/Toy Story and others. Way cool. He was a very nice, kinda geeky, super smart and funny guy.
Cool...I just read his biography...it said he was making his own flip books when he was 8...Des and his cousin Caroline used to do that at that age and now Caroline is an animator for Pixar...I bet she knows him because the bio said he made story boards for "Bug's Life" as did Caroline!
"UP" looks good, now I'm gonna see it for sure!
I mispoke...we did not graduate together. He was a year older. I forgot that when I was an editor I started as a junior (only sr's were editors). All my good yearbook friends were a year older. Peter and I weren't friends...but, we worked together. I just asked his wife to be my facebook friend...we'll see what she says.
Peter doesn't have facebook...perhaps, he's computer challenged? (ha,ha)
On funny thing to note (I think). Both Peter's parents were Doctors. So, they were Dr. Docter...ha!
Happy Birthday to Phelan and Caitlin and to Scott- complex Geminis all.
Scott spent the weekend buying, hauling and spreading 19 bags of mulch, cleaning the gutters, and vaccuming the house while I sat on the deck and told him what to do- occasionally getting up to turn on and off the hose while he was cleaning the gutters. We did get a sitter last night and went out for Mexican food. Jude and I made a cake today and I tried to make a Superman logo on it becasue Jude was sure he would want a Superman cake but it didn't turn out too well. We'll see if it's even recognizable to Scott when he gets home.
Ohhhh Yeaahhhhh!!!!!:
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1591683,ferris-bueller-house-0526.article
It's not Ferris' house, it's Cameron's house in the woods for $2.3 Million...the Realtor is Melodee Hughes with Sotheby's Intl. Realty. (I wonder if she's related to John Hughes?)
Does it come with the car?
Em,what is your due date?
German authorities have ordered the sales of Red Bull Cola to be suspended after trace amounts of cocaine were found in it.
Tom
Ooh, I better stock up on it now before it's pulled from the shelves.
My due date is June 12, but the Dr. is going to induce on the 8th if he hasn't arrived before then.
Hey - is anybody else going to go to the GHS 50th anniversary celebrations July 10-12?
It's gonna be alot of fun
Everybody better come!
Or Sr. Eugene will squeeze
your arm and hit your knees.
So, beware and don't be square
Garrigan's planning a big affair!
SEE YOU THERR!!
rather there!
Thanks for the birthday wishes! After work yesterday my dad came over with a cake and a bottle of champagne and he (accompanied by my mom over speaker phone) sang happy birthday to be and I pretended to blow out the candles because no one had matches. Then I met a bunch of people at The Homy Inn (the only place that serves champagne on tap) and we ordered Sgt. Peffer's italian food from across the street. Delicious! It was a very successful, legal birthday.
caitlin that sounds like an excellent celebration.
We have had over 14 inches of rain this month, and rain is forecast every day through the finish of this month. 15 is the record.
p
http://www.midiowanews.com/site/tab2.cfm?brd=2700&dept_id=610757&pag=1020&newsid=20321749&cpe=~~26~~28~~5EJ~~28T~~2A~~2B~~2F~~0A&barnd=87
caitlin! Your mom and dad are in the paper!
p
I have never heard of Champagne of tap!
How did Joe IV do?
I wish there had been inticing photos of the homes instead of the tiny picture of the outside of Midge Andreason's home. Is that her old house? She said she uses it as a guest house?
lisa
Lisa, click on that photo and you will go to the "photo gallery" which has photos of exactly 2 homes, but one is at least an interior shot of Mike & Mary's. Nice place.
Theres also a photo here that joe or kelli may want a copy of:
http://amestrib.mycapture.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?image=23656895&event=756126&CategoryID=49432
That house is Midge's hobby house...her book club and other ladies groups meet there...she says in the article that it was built in 1915...I didn't think that was right, so I checked the courthouse records and it was built in 1925...so OUR house is the oldest...but, I'll let Midge win...I saw the Judge out front of the hobby house pulling weeds with Midge 2 days after his retirement party...he didn't look like he was having fun!
Did you save your tree?
Mary, I think you meant the "Justice" when you said "Judge".
Speaking of Justices I was pretty ambivalent or even disinterested in this Sotomayer until I read this...
********************
Empathy is a vital virtue to be exercised in private life -- through charity, respect and loving kindness -- and in the legislative life of a society where the consequences of any law matter greatly, which is why income taxes are progressive and safety nets are built for the poor and disadvantaged.
But all that stops at the courthouse door. Figuratively and literally, justice wears a blindfold. It cannot be a respecter of persons. Everyone must stand equally before the law, black or white, rich or poor, advantaged or not.
Obama and Sotomayor draw on the "richness of her experiences" and concern for judicial results to favor one American story, one disadvantaged background, over another.
*******************
For the whole column go to this link.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052803613_2.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&sid=ST2009052900055
Many of you who read this blog use words as the tool of your trade. You may not agree with Charles. But, you gotta agree that this guy is masterful in conveying his point.
Tom
Justice vs. empathy is a false dichotomy. If we can't have both we end up with the Dred Scott decision. And Roe vs. Wade will stand forever.
Iowa had 2 kids in the recently-concluded National Spelling Bee. I heard the end of a radio story on it and so am not sure of all my facts. One kid went out misspelling some word I never heard of. The other went out in the 2nd round missing on "perturbed". Think how perturbed the kid was. More likely, think how perturbed his parents (who prolly home-schooled the kid and had him going through dictionaries for 14 hours a day for the last couple years) were.
It's fun to watch....dramatic.
The one who came in third was crushed. She and the number one winner were good friends since preschool. I like the kids who just laugh when they hear the word.
p
If empathy is the only hope to save the unborn then they have no chance. If it is justice that will save them then it may be so.
Empathy hasn't saved many people over the course of history.
Tom
Not mutually exclusive! Justice tempered with empathy = mercy. And the quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned Supreme Court Justice better than his robe.
His chair shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of judges.
But mercy is above this sceptered sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of Justices;
It is an attribute of God himself;
And earthly power doth then show like God's
When mercy seasons justice.
William Shakespeare
1600
How doth the Nat'l Spelling Bee
Improve each shining hour
When children make the pseudo-sports
on ESPN cower!
For some reason that reminds me - Brianne's fish is named Penmanship. Ha!
Maybe I'll get him a companion named Punctuation. A less cool and handsome sidekick.
Off to jai alai tonight. I bought Josh a jai alai tshirt, it's kind of cool.
p
Gee - I hope Manchester United can pull it off tonight!!
Tom
have fun at the fronton.
Most of the players are from Spain or Mexico. My favorite is Angel...he gets abused so awfully by the bettor.
p
bettors.
So my boss has to go testify in front of Congress next week on OTC derivatives. He's gonna be on cspan. He's not too excited about it.
Tell him to wear clean underwear!
Emily - If you have the baby on June 8, the baby and I will share a birthday! It's a good day to be born.
This weekend Josh made a surprise reservation at a nice hotel in Fort Lauderdale for a night. It was fun - the city is connected by canals, so you can buy an all day pass for water taxis and just tour via boat. The weather wasn't great, but we did get a window for a couple hours of nice weather (we also got caught in a nasty downpour).
p
did you check out Slip F-18 at Bahia Mar Marina?
OK, I give - what's the significance of slip F-18?
it's where Travis McGee docked the Busted Flush.
and what does a jai alai tshirt look like?
i've been told the marina leaves slip f-18 un-rented and there is a plaque dedicated to John D McDonald there...
I don't know what any of this refers to.
Did Ellen have a nice graduation party? Are you eating leftover cake all week long?
She had a great party. Lot's of fun. We are eating cake and pork. I froze two big bags of pork loin. It'll be great to have for sandwiches. Thank you to those of you who came. Those of you who didn't you missed some awesome cotton candy.
Monica
Happy Birthday Mom/Granny. Have a great day. Go to lunch or do something special.
Monica
Happy Birthday Granny-we'll see you tomorrow night! :-)
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