tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69803302011-04-21T23:12:14.443-05:00"For This One Particular Occasion"Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00878915570846833962noreply@blogger.comBlogger1931100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6980330.post-62750650147952761402009-01-28T12:48:00.008-06:002009-01-28T12:58:42.443-06:00

One of the worst ice storms in our recorded history.....which granted isn't all that long. Tree tops are still crashing down today. But we're some of the lucky few to have power, so it could be much worse.

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Akitas like it.

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And as Santa Sollie sez:Ho freaking Ho.

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My best guess is some kind of wild fennel....but there's no smell, no taste. What do you think it is?

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Snow is one of Sassy's favorite things.

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Winnie the Pug in all his glory.

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Hard to tell, but I think we only got a couple inches of snow.

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Should've gone south with the rest. 

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Flock of sparrows waiting impatiently for me to go back inside. 

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I think she's gone, resume attack. 

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Not very deep, but still pretty. 

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Streets are a wee bit slick. 

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You aren't going to make me come inside are you? 

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Once more into the leaf pile men!

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Go away I'm sleeping. 

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Tickle my tummy & I'll take your hand off! 

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County Fair 2006

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Peace Fountain, a/k/a 'The World' by T.S. Dungbeetle

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I'm ready for my close-up.

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Madame is the greatest star of them all. 

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I am big. It's the pictures that got small. 

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This is a bird. He is so mad there are flames shooting out his head. What is he mad about? EVERYTHING!!!

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What, me worry?

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Leaning Tower of Tree-sa 

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You will obey my orders!

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PET THE KITTY! 

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Don't just sit there. PET THE KITTY! 

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She's beautiful, of course.

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My car's under there somewhere

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Lookin' out my back door 

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Hey thanks lady! 

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The elm has started budding. Oops 

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Critter tracks...prolly Mr. Bunny 

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A fire would be nice 

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Snow slide 

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Not bad for a phone photo.

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It was very pretty after the snow storm.

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Oklahoma wind turbines. 

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Top of the world Ma. 

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New Mexico was beautiful. 

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Dunno what the real name of this is, but we dubbed it "Buttcrack Mountain". 

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Snow clouds in Arizona. 

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Kitty hates baths. 

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Kitty looked (and smelled) much better after the bath. 

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Arizona view. 

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Smokey's found a way to beat the cold: Snuggle a pug....that's snuggled up to the heating vent.

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O Tannenbaum....betcha don't have a red alligator on your tree. 

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Smokey is happy....even though he's playing with one of the dog toys.

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Sollie is sad. He doesn't like it when Smokey plays with the dog toys.

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Smokey likes to help me blog.

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He's a big help.....not. 

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Kitty really lurves the warm laptop. 

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Go away you pesky human. 

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This morning it was a network issue. This evening it's a DOS attack. Hopefully my regular site will be back up soon. Busy day doing a little bit of everything from weed eating thigh-high grass to cleaning out my sock drawer. But I've managed to catch some of the horrific devastation from Katrina....it's almost too much to believe. And I suspect it will continue to get worse as the true extent of

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Screaming yellow room.

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Our new house!

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He has the prettiest olive green eyes.

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This is closest to his real color. 

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Thoroughly bored kitty. 

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Don't let his innocent look fool you, he's a real spaz when he's awake.

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His second favorite place to sleep is curled around a 4 port switch. 

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Happy kitty. 

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sollie 

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Someone has way too much time on their hands:

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Sorry it's a bit blurry. All the lightning striking everywhere was making me a bit nervous. I could just see the headlines:"Stupid Woman Killed By Lightning Trying To Get Photo For Blog".It was, in retrospect, a true Darwin moment.

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Pea to dime sized, not too serious. 

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darth Originally uploaded by Sollie. The evil Darth grackle planning his next attack.

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bird Originally uploaded by Sollie. I ain't afraid of no grackle!

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bird2 Originally uploaded by Sollie. What's that noise?

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peekaboo Originally uploaded by Sollie. Is he gone yet?

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My stepdaughter planted these when they first moved here. They're gorgeous every year.

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I planted these interspersed with bright yellow tulips a couple of years ago. The yellow ones didn't bloom this year for some reason. Prolly something I did. 

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There's a nice spread of these beside our driveway....whatever they are. 

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I planted this several years ago, so I don't remember its name. But it makes a nice bright spot of color in a shady area. 

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These bushes get huge, some are close to 9 ft. tall. They're rather invasive too, though I don't mind b/c they make a nice hedge. They're covered in red berries in the winter....birds love them so they don't last long.

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April sky through green filigree. 

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The redbud's in full bloom. 

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Looks like a bumper plum crop this year, barring hail storms or high winds. These make the best plum jelly you ever had.

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It's almost like looking up during a snowstorm...but it smells much better. 

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There were all kinds of bees & flies all over the blooms....not many honeybees but there were a few. 

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Nothing shy about these white violets. They're all over the lawn and along the driveway.

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These aren't nearly as prolific as the white ones, and seem to prefer the flowerbed or hiding near the fence. 

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This is cinquefoil, a member of the rose family. 

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Last, and least, are these tiny flowers. I'm not sure exactly what they are, but they're very dainty. 

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One set of my great-grandparents, on their wedding day. The little boy is my great-grandpa's little brother. (And shame on you for thinking otherwise) It's too cute the way he's clinging to his big brother's pants leg. 

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Same great-grandparents, many, many years later. Great-grandpa passed away not too long after this photo was taken. Great-grandma lived to be close to 100. She passed away in the early 1980's. Hard to believe how much their world had changed between the times of the two photos, isn't it? 

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Ma and her bionic arm give a little help.

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Hey batter batter batter Swing! 

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Bats equally well left or right....but has a tendency to crowd the plate. 

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Soon he got distracted by something shiny.

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View from our front porch.

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A closer view. I bet that was a helluva ride for a few seconds. 

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Street side view of the accident area. This guy was really lucky he didn't flip his SUV. It's pretty steep there. 

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I'm standing in the corner of our yard about where the front of the SUV landed. You can't really tell from the photo, but there's several big stumps underneath the brush there. 

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These daffodils have been bloomed for about a week, though the others are just starting to bud. I'm not sure if it's because these are covered with a thick layer of mulch, or if they're just crazy.

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The crocuses are in full bloom. 

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Even the hyacinths are peeping out.  

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I'm not sure what this is, but I do know my son's very allergic to them. One spring he kept breaking out in hives. I finally discovered he & his sister had made a 'fort' in the middle of a big thicket of these. He kept sneaking back in them....like I wouldn't notice he was covered in hives again. 

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They don't have much scent, but they're pretty. 

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